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This hockey player is one of coolest people you’ll meet

Akim Aliu: Dreamer (Original Graphic Memoir) by Akim Aliu

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Never judge a book by its cover is usually a good idea. And it was a good one for Akim Aliu: Dreamer (Original Graphic Memoir). I figured it would be a story about how one young man became a hockey superstar despite the odds and be a bit cliché with how race plays a part. Yet, while it talks about race and racism, and is the focus, there is more to things than that. Of course, as said, that is a central piece but Alui […]

A hockey romance with less hockey and more coping with grief

Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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CBR16 Sweet Books: Exciting (I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time, and was VERY excited to get an ARC shortly before the release date. Nowhere Bingo: A book with multiple POVs This was an audio ARC from NetGalley. My opinions are my own.  When Aurora “Rory” Evans was a lonely teenager, she ran into a handsome Canadian hockey player while she was selling coffee at the Mall of America. She took his name and pretended to have an actual Canadian boyfriend, making […]

It’s beautiful because it’s melancholy. It’s a complicated kind of beauty.

Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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I am struggling with getting my review of Jenny Holiday’s Canadian Boyfriend right. I really enjoyed it. It’s a romance surfing on big waves of grief and trauma. For a big chunk of the book Mike and Aurora have a quasi employer/employee relationship that some people will, reasonably, consider a hard no. I want to put all this up front, because it’s important information for readers, and I don’t want my whole review to be about the things that might put a reader off of […]

Gruff Irish farmer > Jealous hockey players

C*ck Blocked (Blockers Book 1) by K.C. Kassidy

Teamwork (Hot Ice # 4) by Lily Harlem

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CBR15Bingo – Picture This block In one book, the main character is a famous actor. In the other book, two main characters are professional athletes. CBR15 Passport: The book is set in Ireland. C*ck Blocked (Blockers Book 1) by K.C. Kassidy Gray, an American actor living in London, is wrapping up his final season as the straight heartthrob of a period television drama. He is happy in London and is mostly comfortable with his lot in life. However, as a next step, he wants to […]

Give me a man who can cook and bake amazing things instead of an athlete any day.

Make It Sweet by Kristen Callihan

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3.5 stars CBR14 Bingo: Dough (the hero is a retired hockey player who bakes and cooks the most amazing food – there is some serious food porn in this book). Lucian “Luc” Osmond was a star hockey player with brilliant career prospects, tons of friends and teammates, not to mention a beautiful fiancee. Then one especially hard tackle has the doctors proclaim that if he continues to play, he’s likely to end up brain damaged or dead. So he has to give up the sport […]

Enemies to Lovers, Hockey Style

Unexpected Goals by Kelly Farmer

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It isn’t that often that I come across an enemies to lovers romance in which the protagonists genuinely dislike each other for legitimate but bridgeable reasons and neither is a terrible person. Kelly Farmer’s Unexpected Goals was a very enjoyable read with two protagonists who genuinely and quite famously dislike each other at the beginning and end with a lovely happily ever after. Maisy Goode and Jenny Donato have had a public beef after an incident in a game between Team Canada and Team USA […]



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