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The royals have their own sex club for….reasons.

Rogue Royal (Club Royal #1) by Elouise East

August 30, 2023 by carmelpie 5 Comments

Douglas, spare heir to the British crown, is caught with his pants down in an alley. His social media/PR manager, Maverick, is forced to work even more closely with him so as to prevent this from happening again. Along the way, their prejudices fade away, and the line between prince and employee begins to blur as Douglas introduces Maverick to the world of soft BDSM and gentle kink. This book is delightfully ridiculous. For example, the royal family has its own sex club. “The club […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: bdsm romance, Elouise East, English Royalty, gay romance, Heir, Prince, queer romance, Reluctant Royals

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: bdsm romance, Elouise East, English Royalty, gay romance, Heir, Prince, queer romance, Reluctant Royals ·
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Prince – A Musical Genius

July 21, 2018 by KB Leave a Comment

Let me begin by saying that I am a massive Prince fan. There is no celebrity on the planet that I admire more. So I enjoy reading about Prince and finding out new information. I also am touch and go with reading biographies. I find they can be very well written, or appallingly written – there is nothing in between. I am very happy to say that this particular biography was well written. Rather than being a chronological recount of Prince’s life, each chapter instead […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #CBR10, Prince

KB's CBR10 Review No:23 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #CBR10, Prince ·
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Black girl poetic magic

December 30, 2017 by teresaelectro 1 Comment

Electric Arches is collection of poetry by Eve L. Ewing. Her poems muse on the black experience. She reveals painful moments of racism she encounters and add in handwritten font her imagined replies to the N-word. She writes odes to her musical heroes in “Appletree [on black womanhood, from and to Erykah Badu] and “On Prince”. Each poem describes how their music touched her soul. She uplifts the ordinary with her words adding a fantastical gloss of wonder. “so in this world, grease is a compliment, no […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: black experience, black girl magic, black speculative fiction, cannonball read 9, cbr9, Electric Arches, Erykah Badu, Eve Ewing, Eve L Ewing, hair love, magical realism, music, poetry, Prince, Racism, shea butter

teresaelectro's CBR9 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: black experience, black girl magic, black speculative fiction, cannonball read 9, cbr9, Electric Arches, Erykah Badu, Eve Ewing, Eve L Ewing, hair love, magical realism, music, poetry, Prince, Racism, shea butter ·
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