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“My feelings are mine, and mine alone.”

Flip Flip Slowly by Mame Ohtako

January 3, 2026 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Flip Flip Slowly is a one volume gay romance manga that follows the developing relationship between Kouta, a librarian in a rural area, and Jinichi, an adjunct professor who shows up and becomes a regular. Kouta is a cheerful and thoughtful young man, while Jinichi is sad and reserved. Through their meetings at the library, they get to know each other and feelings slowly deepen between them. Kouta has to unpack some of Jinichi’s negative beliefs about himself and give him the space to make […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance Tagged With: gay romance, Mame Ohtako, manga

GentleRain's CBR18 Review No:2 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance · Tags: gay romance, Mame Ohtako, manga ·
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Are you trying to scam someone? Am I gonna have to learn a bunch of facts about you so we can pretend we’ve been in love for years?

The Backup by cheeryos

December 29, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

The Backup by cheeryos “Poor Ronan here might as well be celibate. How long has it been?” She whispers theatrically, “I think he’s saving himself for Vin Diesel.” Ronan shoves her to shut her up. She’s wrong, anyways. He had always wanted to be Vin Diesel growing up. Which, naturally, meant that he’d wanted to fuck Paul Walker. Now that it’s been brought up, he notices that Adam kind of fits into the Paul Walker mold, with his blue eyes and tanned face and wheat-stalk […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cheeryos, christmas, Dysfunctional Families, emotionally constipated, fake dating, fanfic, fanfiction, friends to lovers, gay romance, Maggie Stiefvater, New Year's Eve, pining, queer romance, romcom, Slow Burn Romance, the Dreamer Trilogy, The Raven Cycle

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:52 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cheeryos, christmas, Dysfunctional Families, emotionally constipated, fake dating, fanfic, fanfiction, friends to lovers, gay romance, Maggie Stiefvater, New Year's Eve, pining, queer romance, romcom, Slow Burn Romance, the Dreamer Trilogy, The Raven Cycle ·
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Spicy Sweet

Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew #9) by Anna Zabo

Syncopation (Twisted Wishes #1) by Anna Zabo

December 27, 2025 by carmelpie 2 Comments

Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew #9) It’s just—you speak a bunch of languages. You’re stunningly handsome. You can skate backwards, you cook and bake. And you’re nice. ― Anna Zabo, Cinnamon Roll Maxime Demers knows he should mind his own business, but he can’t resist the urge to help. Tom Cedric is looking for a Dom, a good Dom; specifically, a Dom that is not an asshole like all of the ones he’s experienced to date. After witnessing a Tom endure session after session of Dom […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: academia, Anna Zabo, Anxiety, aromantic, bdsm, bdsm romance, confidence issues, French Canadian, gay romance, hockey subplot, low self-confidence, queer romance, rock star romance, small town romance, Soft Dom, substance abuse

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: academia, Anna Zabo, Anxiety, aromantic, bdsm, bdsm romance, confidence issues, French Canadian, gay romance, hockey subplot, low self-confidence, queer romance, rock star romance, small town romance, Soft Dom, substance abuse ·
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Drifting in the post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s no man’s land

A Very Phoenix Christmas: A Phoenix Club novella (The Phoenix Club) by CJ Bishop

A Swan for Christmas: A Winter Romance by M.M. Wilde

December 27, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

*The thumbnail pic is not my cat. Instead, it is a pic of me as a cat in my preferred location and outfit of choice. Time has lost all meaning. I float in a never-ending circuit of sofa, kitchen, laundry closet. Meals are made from remnants of other meals; a bizarre hot and cold buffet of Christmas leftovers and the occasional fruit and veg to ward off scurvy. The candy and chocolate wrappers fill the trash bin. It doesn’t rain but everything outside is cold […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Christmas Eve, Christmas romance, CJ Bishop, gay romance, M.M. Wilde, omegaverse, pornography, queer romance, sex workers, shifter smut, shifters, small town romance, so much so much smut, strip club, strippers

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Christmas Eve, Christmas romance, CJ Bishop, gay romance, M.M. Wilde, omegaverse, pornography, queer romance, sex workers, shifter smut, shifters, small town romance, so much so much smut, strip club, strippers ·
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Jack, in his dark camps, saw Ennis as a night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain.

Brokeback Mountain by E. Annie Proulx

December 19, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Going up, the day was fine but the trail deep-drifted and slopping wet at the margins. They left it to wind through a slashy cut, leading the horses through brittle branchwood, Jack, the same eagle feather in his old hat, lifting his head in the heated noon to take the air scented with resinous lodgepole, the dry needle duff and hot rock, bitter juniper crushed beneath the horses’ hooves. Ennis, weather-eyed, looked west for the heated cumulus that might come up on such a day […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Western Tagged With: 1960s, American West, Annie Proulx, closeted, cowboys, e. annie proulx, film adaptation, forbidden love, gay romance, Homophobia, myth of the American west, novella, queer romance, Ranchers, short story, tragedy

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Western · Tags: 1960s, American West, Annie Proulx, closeted, cowboys, e. annie proulx, film adaptation, forbidden love, gay romance, Homophobia, myth of the American west, novella, queer romance, Ranchers, short story, tragedy ·
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Put your emptiness to melody

Paint Our Song (Cloverlily Book #1) by Maia Kinley

December 13, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Baffled, Miles makes a face and belts out the next line to the song. Calvin laughs again and shakes his head. For a moment, and not for the first time, Miles is stunned by Calvin—at his rosy cheeks, at how he throws his head back when he laughs, and how he’s smiling wider than Miles has ever seen him. Is his terrible singing doing this? He might just sing even worse. Miles is a professional artist, a painter, who must return to his hometown of […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: fame, gay romance, grumpy sunshine, Maia Kinley, queer romance, rock star romance, small town romance

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:44 · Genres: Romance · Tags: fame, gay romance, grumpy sunshine, Maia Kinley, queer romance, rock star romance, small town romance ·
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