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Spicy Sweet

Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew #9) by Anna Zabo

Syncopation (Twisted Wishes #1) by Anna Zabo

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Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew #9) It’s just—you speak a bunch of languages. You’re stunningly handsome. You can skate backwards, you cook and bake. And you’re nice. ― Anna Zabo, Cinnamon Roll Maxime Demers knows he should mind his own business, but he can’t resist the urge to help. Tom Cedric is looking for a Dom, a good Dom; specifically, a Dom that is not an asshole like all of the ones he’s experienced to date. After witnessing a Tom endure session after session of Dom […]

Drifting in the post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s no man’s land

A Very Phoenix Christmas: A Phoenix Club novella (The Phoenix Club) by CJ Bishop

A Swan for Christmas: A Winter Romance by M.M. Wilde

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*The thumbnail pic is not my cat. Instead, it is a pic of me as a cat in my preferred location and outfit of choice. Time has lost all meaning. I float in a never-ending circuit of sofa, kitchen, laundry closet. Meals are made from remnants of other meals; a bizarre hot and cold buffet of Christmas leftovers and the occasional fruit and veg to ward off scurvy. The candy and chocolate wrappers fill the trash bin. It doesn’t rain but everything outside is cold […]

Put your emptiness to melody

Paint Our Song (Cloverlily Book #1) by Maia Kinley

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Baffled, Miles makes a face and belts out the next line to the song. Calvin laughs again and shakes his head. For a moment, and not for the first time, Miles is stunned by Calvin—at his rosy cheeks, at how he throws his head back when he laughs, and how he’s smiling wider than Miles has ever seen him. Is his terrible singing doing this? He might just sing even worse. Miles is a professional artist, a painter, who must return to his hometown of […]

Even When I’m Leaving

Even When I'm Leaving by S.C. Meyer

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When she returns to her hometown for her dad’s funeral, Victoria (Vic) doesn’t expect to see her high school ex, Tony, much less be rescued by him from the side of the road when her ancient sedan breaks down just outside of the city limits. Through a series of flashbacks, Vic remembers the last summer she and Tony were together, the summer when their friendship turned to romance, and also the summer when Tony’s mother passed away from an aggressive form of cancer. Even though […]

Someone should turn this dull book into a cute film.

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

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“We are going out. Clearly I had a bad day, and by the looks of the new books on the counter, you did, too.” ― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics Florence Day has secrets. She’s a ghostwriter for one of the world’s most famous romance novelists, Ann Nichols. After her own debut novel flopped, Florence picked up a sweet job ghostwriting bestsellers. No one except Ann, her publisher, and Florence’s best friend Rose know this. Despite her success, Florence is struggling to finish the final […]

Experiencing an identity crisis and burnout on your parents’ couch while a hot, single, emotionally-unavailable guy sleeps down the hall

Georgie All Along by Kate Clayborn

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I perform the task of exhausted women everywhere—taking my bra off without removing my top. Once I’ve pulled it through the armhole of my tank, I fling it onto the old, slouchy couch, sending it the disgusted glare that all bras deserve after a long, hot day. ― Kate Clayborn, Georgie, All Along CBR17 Bingo: G This is the book I’ve most recently finished. While I try to follow the order in which I read books, my “to review” list has become so daunting that […]



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