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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Hair and Heart: An MM Fairy Tale Romance by Rhys Everly

Pictures of You by Leta Blake

June 14, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Hair and Heart: An MM Fairy Tale Romance By Rhys Everly Val is in a conservatorship. He is a pop musician who has been under the care of his uncle since teenage Val blacked out during a psychotic episode and set fire to his home, which resulted in the death of both of his parents. Since that episode, he has been under his uncle Fred’s care. Val is in his early twenties and is tired of making the same generic pop ballads that made him […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: 90s, coming-of-age, conservatorship, drag queens, emotional manipulation, gaslighting, gay romance, Leta Blake, mental health issues, Pop Star, queer romance, Rhys Everly, toxic relationships

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: 90s, coming-of-age, conservatorship, drag queens, emotional manipulation, gaslighting, gay romance, Leta Blake, mental health issues, Pop Star, queer romance, Rhys Everly, toxic relationships ·
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You’re not paranoid if everyone is actually trying to kill you.

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles Book 1) by Foz Meadows

June 11, 2024 by carmelpie 1 Comment

I felt a sudden, furious rush of sympathy for every Ralian woman who’d ever been the subject of marital bartering; I was ashamed of my prior indifference to the phenomenon, and wondered, with a certain, sick fascination, if being raised in expectation of such a fate made enduring it any easier. ― Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance I bought this book a couple of months ago as it was on my “MUST ACQUIRE” list. However, I cannot remember how I heard about it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: assassin, forced marriage, Foz Meadows, friends to lovers, gay romance, political marriage, queer romance, romantasy, trans author

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Romance · Tags: assassin, forced marriage, Foz Meadows, friends to lovers, gay romance, political marriage, queer romance, romantasy, trans author ·
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A Head Wound Hail Mary

10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall

May 30, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

We spend a good few minutes wrangling with nachos. To be honest, they’re a good fit for the very unusual occasion of two people who are blatantly into each other having a meal where they have to pretend they aren’t. They’re not so messy it’s embarrassing, they require just enough cooperation that you’ve got to interact, but not so much it gets sexy. ― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened “Worst comes to absolute worst, I’ll just arrange to get whacked on the head […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alexis Hall, amnesia trope, dating the boss, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, gay romance, hurt/comfort, idiots to lovers, London, queer romance

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alexis Hall, amnesia trope, dating the boss, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, gay romance, hurt/comfort, idiots to lovers, London, queer romance ·
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After a lifetime of throwing away love and affection, maybe he had a surplus, and Caleb was welcome to it.

Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian

Tommy Cabot Was Here by Cat Sebastian

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots by Cat Sebastian

May 23, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Peter Cabot Gets Lost There had been that moment when Peter touched Caleb’s neck before lunch, but Caleb was ninety percent sure that was an accident and that Peter had needed to have about fifteen existential crises about it. Caleb didn’t have the energy to be anyone’s existential crisis. ― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost Peter caught himself staring at Caleb even more than usual, as if memorizing the precise upward tilt of his nose or the degree to which his freckles had multiplied […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: 1960s America, 1970s New York, Cat Sebastian, gay romance, queer romance, road trip romance

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: 1960s America, 1970s New York, Cat Sebastian, gay romance, queer romance, road trip romance ·
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Now they can go and be awful together

Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy

May 5, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Jamie Canning always wondered why his best friend from elite summer hockey camp ghosted him. He has an idea though, and it’s the semi-drunken hookup they had during their last week of camp. Still, to Jamie, one bad decision shouldn’t break up a seven-year friendship. Years later at the Frozen Four (cringe) college national championship, Jamie and Wes manage to chat a bit. It is still awkward, but they both push through it with the hopes that they can at least be friendly acquaintances. So, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Camp counselors, College sports, dude bros, Elle Kennedy, gay romance, Hockey players, hockey romance, jock, queer romance, Sarina Bowen, Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy, summer camp, they were roommates, toxic masculinity

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Camp counselors, College sports, dude bros, Elle Kennedy, gay romance, Hockey players, hockey romance, jock, queer romance, Sarina Bowen, Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy, summer camp, they were roommates, toxic masculinity ·
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He couldn’t tell them that the right one had come along, and it was the pissed-off Russian man heading to the penalty box.

Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2) by Rachel Reid

The Long Game (Game Changers #6) by Rachel Reid

May 2, 2024 by carmelpie 1 Comment

Heated Rivalry Ilya smiled to himself. He actually loved this. He loved being on the road, and disappointing home crowds across North America. He loved the insults, the booing, and, most of all, the sound of a crowd so gutted by his team’s performance that they couldn’t even bother to boo. A winded, humiliated crowd. That was Ilya’s favorite sound. ― Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry “Um, and this is….Ilya. Rozanov. You probably know that.” What were they, exactly? It occurred to Shane that he and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Canada, canadian author, Canadian romance, Depression, enemies to lovers, gay romance, hockey romance, queer romance, Rachel Reid, sports romance, toxic masculinity

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Canada, canadian author, Canadian romance, Depression, enemies to lovers, gay romance, hockey romance, queer romance, Rachel Reid, sports romance, toxic masculinity ·
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