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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in, and I don’t want to fit in.

Knot Mine (The Oakley-Verse #1) by Alice La Roux

August 4, 2026 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

CBR18 Book Bingo: Middle – Zale stays in the middle, never causing problems but ignoring what he wants for the sake of popularity and fitting in. Shiloh is whatever the opposite is of “the life of the party.” He snaps at people before they can tear him down. It doesn’t help that his endlessly-lovable twin sister, Milly, is an omega who has the alphas at their small college eating out of her hand while Shiloh is the antisocial beta sibling. Milly’s boyfriend Zale – the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alice La Roux, betrayal, bullying, cbr18bingo, Classism, college life, enemies to lovers, fated mates, forbidden love, gay romance, m/m romance, omegaverse, opposites attract, Outcast, pariah, secret identity, sibling rivalry, siblings & twins

carmelpie's CBR18 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alice La Roux, betrayal, bullying, cbr18bingo, Classism, college life, enemies to lovers, fated mates, forbidden love, gay romance, m/m romance, omegaverse, opposites attract, Outcast, pariah, secret identity, sibling rivalry, siblings & twins ·
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Peace-loving, vegetarian vampires are as dull as they sound.

Blood Mercy: A Fantasy Romance (Blood Grace Book 1) by Vela Roth

June 22, 2026 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Lio had already wasted so much time and effort carefully constructing a plan for eternity, which had all come to naught. It was a fine, rare feeling to want nothing more than the present. ― Vela Roth, Blood Mercy Cassia is the bastard daughter of the king, and the offspring of one of his concubines. His true heir, the princess, died years ago, but was finally replaced by the next heir, a boy child who is now a teenage prince. The king uses Cassia as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: abolish the monarchy, bastard daughter, enthusiastic consent, fated mates, humans are terrible, religion is terrible, royalty, vampires, Vela Roth

carmelpie's CBR18 Review No:24 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: abolish the monarchy, bastard daughter, enthusiastic consent, fated mates, humans are terrible, religion is terrible, royalty, vampires, Vela Roth ·
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Quicksilver by Callie Hart

Faeries, vampires, and a human troublemaker

Quicksilver by Callie Hart

December 25, 2025 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Quicksilver by Callie Hart introduces us to human thief Saeris. She mainly robs from the rich to survive her hellish kingdom, ruled by an evil magic queen. She had a past dalliance with the hot but insufferable schemer named Carrion. He will never let her hear the end of it. She’s living day to day until captured by the royal guard in a desperate attempt to save her baby brother. She assumes she’ll be executed, but in a world-shattering turn of events, she discovers she […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: booktok, Callie Hart, enemies to lovers, fae, fae and alchemy, fated mates, magic, quicksilver, vampires

teresaelectro's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: booktok, Callie Hart, enemies to lovers, fae, fae and alchemy, fated mates, magic, quicksilver, vampires ·
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A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole

Back to beginning of the Immortals After Dark universe

A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole

December 25, 2025 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

9 years later, I’ve still not finished Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series. But I do own all of them since Kresley kindly stopped by The Ripped Bodice to sign the re-release of the series. I adore the new cover of A Hunger Like No Other, which is now a comfort read. I re-read it for TRB’s fantasy book club in July, and devoured it once again! I wouldn’t have guessed that from my first review. But here we are, unabashedly loving fated supernatural mates […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: fated mates, Immortals After Dark, Kresley Cole, lykae, paranormal romance, re-read, valkyries, vampires, werewolves

teresaelectro's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Romance · Tags: fated mates, Immortals After Dark, Kresley Cole, lykae, paranormal romance, re-read, valkyries, vampires, werewolves ·
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I will love her and pet her and squeeze her and call her Georgie.

Ice Planet Barbarians (Special Edition) by Ruby Dixon

October 10, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

He wears leather, eats raw meat, and hunts with slings and bone knives. Big guy’s probably never heard of a space heater, much less a spaceship. ― Ruby Dixon, Ice Planet Barbarians CBR17 Bingo: Letter I When I came across this special edition in the used book section of one of my favorite bookstores, I decided to buy it because I’d heard it was good and because it was only $5. But then I remembered the tower of unread books in my TBR pile and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: Alien abduction, cbr17bingo, fated mates, Ruby Dixon

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: Alien abduction, cbr17bingo, fated mates, Ruby Dixon ·
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Cover of Cate C. Wells’ Ravaged Wolf

Cate C. Wells can get me to read and appreciate fated mates like no other author

Ravaged Wolf by Cate C. Wells

August 21, 2025 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

First off, if you are considering a place to start with Cate C. Wells, this is not the book. Ravaged Wolf is the book you read when you know the world and trust the author. I read it backwards before I could read it front to back. For want of a better way to explain: Izzy In my pack, I’m a cautionary tale, the female who made her mate wait too long and drove him into rut. After that terrible night, Trevor was exiled, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Cate C Wells, fated mates, Ravaged Wolf, The Five Packs

Emmalita's CBR17 Review No:62 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Cate C Wells, fated mates, Ravaged Wolf, The Five Packs ·
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