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The beauty and the basketball player

February 6, 2016 by Malin 1 Comment

Katie Vickery is a sorority pledge and there is no way she can show up to a party without a date. Having just broken up with her jerky football player boyfriend, she’s at a bit of a loss, until her roommate Scarlet sets her up with a childhood friend, Andrew Baschnagel. While Katie normally dates football players, at least Andy is an athlete and an upperclassman, even if the sport is basketball. Of course, Katie pretty much wants to eat worms than go to the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Blonde Date, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Mrs. Julien, New Adult, novella, Sarina Bowen, sportsball, The Ivy Years

Malin's CBR8 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Blonde Date, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Mrs. Julien, New Adult, novella, Sarina Bowen, sportsball, The Ivy Years ·
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A college romance with truly monumental amounts of angst

February 6, 2016 by Malin 2 Comments

Having spent the previous year pretty much focused on hockey and dating as many different women as possible, Bridger Macaulley’s life drastically changes when he realises that his dead-beat mother isn’t just doing drugs anymore, but that she’s now part of a gang that actually cooks meths at home. He takes his seven-year-old little sister Lucy out of there and hides her in his dorm room, while spending every available moment while she’s at school taking a double course load so he can graduate faster […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: angst, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Malin, Mrs. Julien, New Adult, The Ivy Years, The Year We Hid Away

Malin's CBR8 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: angst, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Malin, Mrs. Julien, New Adult, The Ivy Years, The Year We Hid Away ·
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I finally read it too

January 30, 2016 by Malin 4 Comments

4.5 stars Corey Callahan was expecting to go to prestigious Harkness College as a varsity hockey player, but instead arrives there in a wheelchair, after ending up partly paralysed from the wait down after an accident on the ice. Her cheerful new roommate doesn’t seem to mind that they have to stay in a handicap-accessible room away from all the other Harkness freshmen. If having to re-assess all her hopes and dreams about college wasn’t difficult enough, Corey also falls head over heels for the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Malin, New Adult, Sarina Bowen, The Ivy Years, The Year We Fell Down

Malin's CBR8 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Malin, New Adult, Sarina Bowen, The Ivy Years, The Year We Fell Down ·
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All in the family

January 18, 2016 by PattyKates 10 Comments

Patty: Confession time. I picked this one based on one fact and one fact only: a reviewer wrote “LUVD it!” and I choked on one of the M&M’s I was eating because “LUVD”? SERIOUSLY? So I jumped on my prejudice wagon and told Katie that I felt this one was RIPE for snark and gifs. But things didn’t work out quite how I expected… Katie: Shaw, our heroine, is pretty much perfect. Smart, excellent student, wealthy, polite, kind to children and old people (actually, I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Jay Crownover, katie71483, New Adult, PattyKates, romance, Rule, the other courtney

PattyKates's CBR8 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Jay Crownover, katie71483, New Adult, PattyKates, romance, Rule, the other courtney ·
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Here be dragons

December 26, 2015 by Malin 1 Comment

Once again I want to thank the lovely Mrs. Julien, whose generous gift of an Amazon voucher made it possible for me to buy this book. NFL player Ethan “Dex” Dexter is known to his friends and team mates as “the Wise One”. He’s quiet, observant, focused on his career and not really concerned with dating, or really all that bothered about the fact that he’s still a virgin at 24. The only woman he’s interested in is the bubbly and vivacious Fiona Mackenzie, sister-in-law […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR7, Contemporary Romance, football, Game On, Kristen Callihan, Malin, Mrs. Julien, New Adult, The Game Plan

Malin's CBR7 Review No:149 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR7, Contemporary Romance, football, Game On, Kristen Callihan, Malin, Mrs. Julien, New Adult, The Game Plan ·
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Four years in four days

September 29, 2015 by alwaysanswerb 8 Comments

I can recognize a sensation when I see it. Sarina Bowen’s tag blew up this summer with positive reviews for her series, The Ivy Years, and after more minor prodding on Facebook, I decided to change the status on when to read these from “Later” to “Now.” All four stories feature couples who are in some capacity part of the Fake Harvard Harkness varsity hockey universe. Each book excels at portraying characters who behave as real people would, in situations both mundane and extraordinary. These […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Contemporary Romance, New Adult, Sarina Bowen, sports romance, The Ivy Years series

alwaysanswerb's CBR7 Review No:102 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, New Adult, Sarina Bowen, sports romance, The Ivy Years series ·
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