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When vibe reads aren’t vibing

Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick

The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev A.C. Rosen

July 21, 2026 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo squares: Left (Phoebe Berman feels Left behind with her 30th birthday and her sister’s wedding approaching) Friends (Disaster Gay Detective Agency follows a group of Friends). This might seem like an odd pairing to review together but it’s basically because I read these somewhat close together and both left me disappointed in a similar way: they were  books I expected to be fun, breezy reads that ended up not being as fun or funny as I wanted and ultimately were a bit tedious, even. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brooke Averick, cbr18bingo, dating, Lev A.C. Rosen, LQBTQ

Jen K's CBR18 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brooke Averick, cbr18bingo, dating, Lev A.C. Rosen, LQBTQ ·
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The Girl on the (Subway) Train

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

July 23, 2022 by Abi 3 Comments

A.k.a. the time that a weaponised use of Freddie Mercury had me sobbing at 1am with the book pressed against my forehead, begging for a happy ending. Yeah. In my defence, the reason I was doing that was that the book would not let me put it down until I have finished, after I had brazenly decided to start a reading session at 11:30pm in bed, knowing that I was heading into the climax. One Last Stop is Casey McQuiston’s follow up to Red, White and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: Casey McQuiston, Freddie Mercury, LGBTQ romance, LQBTQ, mystery, non-binary author, One Last Stop, sapphic, time travel, trains, trans characters

Abi's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: Casey McQuiston, Freddie Mercury, LGBTQ romance, LQBTQ, mystery, non-binary author, One Last Stop, sapphic, time travel, trains, trans characters ·
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A Well-Written Romance Novel But Not Quite for Me

July 30, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I immensely enjoyed For Real, and for some reason thought it made sense to me to follow it up with the next novel in the series even though publishing order really has no bearing on reading order for romance novels, in general. Usually, I don’t even look at romance novel covers because they have nothing to do with the book, but the Pansies cover has two men in a flower shop so it’s actually completely relevant to what is happening in the novel.  I think […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alexis Hall, Contemporary Romance, LQBTQ, Pansies

Jen K's CBR10 Review No:136 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alexis Hall, Contemporary Romance, LQBTQ, Pansies ·
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