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“There was something reassuring about the realness of outright hostility.”

January 18, 2018 by narfna 13 Comments

I mean, this was definitely Written By A Man. This is a sports romance between a famously aggressive NFL player (Gavin, bisexual and in the closet) who is under house arrest for a brawl that was caught on camera, and the personal assistant (Noah, openly gay former social worker) he hires to help him manage his life while he can’t leave his house. There is much personality clashing, discussion of power dynamics, class issues, football, and sex. It is smart, also, and doesn’t give two […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: football romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, m/m romance, narfna, romance, santino hassell, sports romance

narfna's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: Romance · Tags: football romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, m/m romance, narfna, romance, santino hassell, sports romance ·
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Ghostwriter, the pattern is full

January 14, 2018 by katie71483 5 Comments

Katie: Gentle Reader, for my fourth Cannonball (third as half of PattyKates), it is somehow fitting that our first review is a new release by none other than Kristen Ashley. It seems like an obvious choice in retrospect, but we were actually stumped about what it would be until we realized that she had recently released The Hookup, the start of her new Moonlight and Motor Oil series.   Summary: Eliza is a good girl and new to Matlock, Ky. As with many of KA’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Fiction, katie71483, Kristen Ashley, Moonlight & Motor Oil Series, romance, The Hookup, the other courtney

katie71483's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Fiction, katie71483, Kristen Ashley, Moonlight & Motor Oil Series, romance, The Hookup, the other courtney ·
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Favorite book of this series. Loved it.

January 10, 2018 by narfna 11 Comments

Please ignore the overgrown beefsteak on the cover of this book. I cannot imagine a worse dude to put on the cover to represent this lovely story. Okay, well, that’s a lie. I can imagine worse. But still! It is not representative! That is a LARGE MAN WITH UNREALISTICALLY LARGE MUSCLES. The hero of this book is a normal man with a more lean physique and probably very pale, because he is English in the 1800s and where is the sun? And also he is […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: a woman entangled, Blackshear Family, Cecilia Grant, historical romance, narfna, Regency Romance, romance

narfna's CBR10 Review No:5 · Genres: Romance · Tags: a woman entangled, Blackshear Family, Cecilia Grant, historical romance, narfna, Regency Romance, romance ·
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An unnecessary sequel?

January 10, 2018 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Dash and Lily met through a red moleskin notebook filled with dares. They egged each other on, two strangers galavanting around New York at Christmas time. They got to know each other through their writing, until their bit of fun turned into romance. The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily picks up a year after our couple met in Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, and after an initial courtship straight out of a Rom-Com the real world has slammed into them, hard. Lily’s beloved […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: david levithan, Fiction, Rachel Cohn, romance, YA

Carriejay's CBR10 Review No:2 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: david levithan, Fiction, Rachel Cohn, romance, YA ·
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Half a War – only kept me half engaged

January 9, 2018 by Dome'Loki 1 Comment

In my review for Half the World, book two in the series, I said, “The two can’t stop worrying at each other and their eventual romance, with standard misunderstanding, is pretty predictable. Both characters have good arcs and come to happy endings, I just wasn’t as interested in their perspective of world events as I had Yarvi’s.  While I am interested in the events occurring around the Shattered Sea, and how Father Yarvi and Gettland will get through the eventual war that is coming, I hope that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, Dome'Loki, fantasy, Fiction, joe abercrombie, romance

Dome'Loki's CBR10 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, Dome'Loki, fantasy, Fiction, joe abercrombie, romance ·
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Why has this author stopped publishing books? Her voice is so unique!

January 9, 2018 by narfna 10 Comments

Okay, is there a legit reason why Cecilia Grant has stopped publishing romance novels? Because I read a lot of them, and both of the books I’ve read by her so far stand apart. It’s a little hard to explain, but her voice is so unique in the genre. 2013 is now five years ago (gross), and that is when she published her last book, so it is high time*. *Some Google-fu has revealed that her once-dormant blog is now semi-active, and she is apparently […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: a gentleman undone, Blackshear Family, Cecilia Grant, historical romance, narfna, romance

narfna's CBR10 Review No:4 · Genres: Romance · Tags: a gentleman undone, Blackshear Family, Cecilia Grant, historical romance, narfna, romance ·
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