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Bittersweet symphony (minus most of the angst)

June 29, 2016 by Beth Ellen 3 Comments

Bittersweet is the first book in Sarina Bowen’s new Vermont foodie series True North. I loved most of her Ivy Years series so when I had a credit from Amazon I decided to give this one a go. It was free, what did I have to lose? Griff Shipley is an ex-attempted pro football player, organic apple farmer in Vermont. I know, that’s a hell of a bio. Audrey Kidder was a 2 night stand in college, and now a trained chef trying to work […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Bittersweet, Sarina Bowen, True North Series

Beth Ellen's CBR8 Review No:33 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Bittersweet, Sarina Bowen, True North Series ·
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How are all these sports romances so hot when I don’t care even a little bit about sports?

May 6, 2016 by Malin 7 Comments

4.5 stars Summary from Goodreads: They don’t play for the same team? Or do they? Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wise-cracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were eighteen? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Nobody died.  Ryan Wesley’s biggest regret is coaxing his very straight friend into a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Elle Kennedy, him, hockey, lgbt, Malin, New Adult, Sarina Bowen

Malin's CBR8 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Elle Kennedy, him, hockey, lgbt, Malin, New Adult, Sarina Bowen ·
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Hot hockey dudes and stuff.

April 21, 2016 by narfna 8 Comments

New adult is not my genre. I mostly prefer historicals when I read romance. But occasionally, a book catches my eye and gets such good reviews that the curiosity monster who lives in my head and makes all my decisions just can’t be denied. This was one of those books. I’ve also read m/m romances before, but they are by no means something I’ve read a lot of. This seems to be a very well done one. There’s no doubt it’s new adult, because holy […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: contemporary, Elle Kennedy, him, hockey, lgbt, m/m romance, narfna, New Adult, romance, Sarina Bowen

narfna's CBR8 Review No:61 · Genres: Romance · Tags: contemporary, Elle Kennedy, him, hockey, lgbt, m/m romance, narfna, New Adult, romance, Sarina Bowen ·
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A Comforting Sequel to an Excellent Book

March 19, 2016 by Ellepkay 2 Comments

Please consider this is less of a review and more of an advertisement. So, a kind of quirky feature of the romance genre is that typically each set of protagonists only gets one book.  (There is an exception known as the ‘slow burn’ where it takes several books for the leads to finally get together, but even then, they aren’t actively in a relationship during all those books).  More likely, if you are reading a series,  you can hold out the hope that you get […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Contemporary Romance, m/m romance, Sarina Bowen

Ellepkay's CBR8 Review No:17 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, m/m romance, Sarina Bowen ·
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… and Featuring the World’s Largest Plot Moppet

March 17, 2016 by Mrs. Julien 8 Comments

A follow-up to the new adult romance Him, Us follows up five months later with Ryan “Wes” Wesley and Jamie Canning. Living together in Toronto as Wes skates through a stellar NHL rookie season (doomed to failure and disappointment as the Leafs haven’t won the Stanley Cup since the year I was born) and Jamie is establishing his career as a coach. They don’t get to spend enough time together and when they do, the are constrained by the need to mask their relationship. Wes just […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: #ProlixityJulien, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Elle Kennedy, New Adult Romance, romance, Sarina Bowen

Mrs. Julien's CBR8 Review No:18 · Genres: Romance · Tags: #ProlixityJulien, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Elle Kennedy, New Adult Romance, romance, Sarina Bowen ·
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The opposite of slut-shaming

February 8, 2016 by Malin 4 Comments

Bella, the student manager of the Harkness varsity hockey team, loves sex and isn’t afraid to say so. She knows that a lot of guys and especially their girlfriends frequently say uncomplimentary things about her behind her back because of her reputation, but Bella isn’t ashamed of enjoying sex in all its many forms. Hence when her hot downstairs neighbour ends up on her doorstep one evening with a bottle of wine, dejected because he broke up with his girlfriend on his birthday, she cheers […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Malin, New Adult, Sarina Bowen, The Ivy Years, The Shameless Hour

Malin's CBR8 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Malin, New Adult, Sarina Bowen, The Ivy Years, The Shameless Hour ·
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