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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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My spellcheck changed “orc” to “orca” and now I want to read that book.

A Vow to Heal (Vows of Unity #1) by Lionel Hart

April 16, 2026 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Korik does not fit in. With the recent alliance between elves and orcs, he is the only healer in his town. Shy and withdrawn, he focuses on doing a good job and helping the town’s residents. He is tall and gangly, and is more fit to work one-on-one as a healer than as a soldier or tradesman. After successfully delivering the elf prince’s child, Korik gains the trust of the local nobility. They ask him to accompany two elves south, captain Varen and his pregnant […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: elves, epic journeys, forced proximity, friends with benefits, gay romance, he's a lover not a fighter, LGBTQ romance, Lionel Hart, low angst, omegaverse, opposites attract, orcs, queer romance, road trip romance, Slow Burn Romance

carmelpie's CBR18 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: elves, epic journeys, forced proximity, friends with benefits, gay romance, he's a lover not a fighter, LGBTQ romance, Lionel Hart, low angst, omegaverse, opposites attract, orcs, queer romance, road trip romance, Slow Burn Romance ·
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We’re two worlds apart.

Rocking the Cowboy by Skylar M. Cates

March 9, 2026 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Jed is happy. He has his ranch, his horses, and his sister, and his niece. His good-for-nothing father Buddy only contacts Jed when he needs something. After leaving the ranch in Jed’s care, Buddy reinvented himself as entertainment royalty. One of the stars he manages, Remy Sean, needs someplace to lie low and recuperate after an attack during his last concert. Jed doesn’t want anything to do with Buddy, but instead of saying no, he sees an opportunity to negotiate. If Buddy agrees to escort […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: child performers, city vs. country, fish out of water, gay romance, grumpy sunshine, LGBTQIA+ characters, opposites attract, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), queer romance, rockstar romance, Skylar M. Cates, Slow Burn Romance, stage fright

carmelpie's CBR18 Review No:11 · Genres: Romance · Tags: child performers, city vs. country, fish out of water, gay romance, grumpy sunshine, LGBTQIA+ characters, opposites attract, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), queer romance, rockstar romance, Skylar M. Cates, Slow Burn Romance, stage fright ·
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And the quips just keep on coming

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

July 14, 2025 by carmelpie 4 Comments

I thought the whole thing about millennials was that we don’t get what we want. The houses, the jobs, the financial freedom. We just go to school forever, then bartend ’til we die. ― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation Bingo square: Work The main character’s job is her identity, and she reckons with what it means to have the career you want and feel unfulfilled. Poppy and Alex are best friends. After meeting during freshmen orientation week, they don’t see one another until […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cbr17bingo, characters on vacation, Emily Henry, friends to lovers, manic pixie dream girl, opposites attract, quirky

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:17 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbr17bingo, characters on vacation, Emily Henry, friends to lovers, manic pixie dream girl, opposites attract, quirky ·
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Second Chance Romance with the Backdrop of Many Weddings

Four Weddings to Fall in Love (Weddings with the Moks #1) by Jackie Lau

July 29, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Four Weddings to Fall in Love is the story of Max Mok and Kim Sung. Their meet-cute happens at mutual friends’ wedding and is quickly followed by a lackluster one-night stand. They both think the worst is behind them, and they can just move on and never see each other again. Except, there are three more weddings that summer that they are both attending (which happen to be Max’s first cousins and family friends of Kim’s). At the second wedding Max attempts to ameliorate his […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Asian Canadian, cbr16bingo, Contemporary Romance, Four Weddings to Fall in Love, Jackie Lau, opposites attract, part one, second chance romance, weddings, Weddings with the Moks

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:28 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Asian Canadian, cbr16bingo, Contemporary Romance, Four Weddings to Fall in Love, Jackie Lau, opposites attract, part one, second chance romance, weddings, Weddings with the Moks ·
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Hockey players owned lots of ridiculous businesses. If Troy patronized them all, he’d never drink anything except terrible wine from their vineyards.

Tough Guy (Game Changers #3) by Rachel Reid

Common Goal (Game Changers #4) by Rachel Reid

Role Model (Game Changers #5) by Rachel Reid

April 30, 2024 by carmelpie 3 Comments

This review covers books three through five of the Game Changers six book series. Caveat – I learned everything I know about hockey from these books, movies, and from a single hockey match I watched in 2018. My apologies in advance. Tough Guy 3 stars “So, you want to tell us about that hockey lumberjack or what?” “Hockey lumberjack?” Marcus asked, setting his phone on the coffee table facedown in a gesture of absolute interest in the conversation. ― Rachel Reid, Tough Guy His whole […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Canada, Discrimination in sports, gay romance, hockey romance, ice hockey, opposites attract, queer romance, Rachel Reid, sports romance

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Canada, Discrimination in sports, gay romance, hockey romance, ice hockey, opposites attract, queer romance, Rachel Reid, sports romance ·
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