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“I’m living in the moment!” Jamie randomly slurted. A cross between blurted and slurred.

Rookie Recovery (Bobcat Boys Book 1) by Lex Easton and Jemma Croft

December 7, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

I pried myself—however reluctantly—out of his grip. “Yeah, I take it they don’t have Walmart on your side of the pond, but we’re not fucking around here. There is no universe in which that’s hot.” Archie Bowman is a star on the ice. Despite his consistently good performance and continuous improvement as a pro hockey player, he keeps getting traded. When he gets picked up by the Bringham Bobcats, he has a serious case of imposter syndrome. Not only must he perform on the ice, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: age gap romance, British author, gay romance, grumpy sunshine, hockey romance, hurt/comfort, Jemma Croft, Lex Easton, Lex Easton & Jemma Croft, Lex Easton and Jemma Croft, queer romance

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: age gap romance, British author, gay romance, grumpy sunshine, hockey romance, hurt/comfort, Jemma Croft, Lex Easton, Lex Easton & Jemma Croft, Lex Easton and Jemma Croft, queer romance ·
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I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I had such a good time with it.

Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke

March 10, 2023 by narfna 2 Comments

I haven’t written it yet, but I’m fairly certain this review will mostly be made up of quotes. That’s the reason I have been letting it hold up my review queue, because I haven’t had enough spoons to sit down and go through all my tabs [see below for picture] for my favorite bits, and then organize the bits into some sort of order, and then finally think up smart things to say about them. And if not smart, then at least entertaining. I picked […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bitch, Bitch: On the Female of the Species, British author, CBR15Passport, evolution, humor, Lucy Cooke, narfna, science, Women's History Month

narfna's CBR15 Review No:26 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bitch, Bitch: On the Female of the Species, British author, CBR15Passport, evolution, humor, Lucy Cooke, narfna, science, Women's History Month ·
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