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Illustrated cartoon style cover in blue with ice and a winter theme. In the foreground a tall thin brown-haired man walks away with his arm around the shoulders of a shorter bulkier blond guy. They both have hockey gear and are looking into each other's eyes over their shoulders as they are about to walk onto an outdoor ice rink.
September 26, 2023

REVIEW: Time to Shine by Rachel Reid

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAce / ADHD / bisexual / Canada / Contemporary / demisexual / hockey / NetGalley / neurodiverse / queer / Sports11 Comments

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Content Note:  grief over death of a close family member Dear Rachel Reid, Oh I’ve missed your books!  It feels like ages since there was a new one. (In reality it’s been 18 months. But it feels longer.) The best news is that Time to Shine was definitely worth the ... more >

Illustrated cover with a red background. Around the borders are pictures of a clock, a tree near a stone marker, a bookshelf, paper and quill/ink, in the lower middle are a slightly built fair headed white man facing a bulky dark-haired white man who is leaning over him and bending him backward over a desk. The titles are in the top middle.
September 19, 2023

REVIEW: A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles

KaetrinA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdemisexual / Historical / NetGalley / queer5 Comments

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Readers please note: some spoilers for The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen follow. Dear KJ Charles, I read and loved the first book in the Doomsday series, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen earlier this year and looked forward with anticipation to the second book (and alas the last from ... more >

lower face, torso and hips of a hot white guy as he takes his tshirt off, revealing cut abs, next to hockey goalie pads
September 22, 2020

REVIEW: Common Goal by Rachel Reid

KaetrinB Reviews / Book Reviewsage gap / bisexual / Contemporary / demisexual / Gay / hockey / m/m romance / queer8 Comments

Dear Rachel Reid, I’ve been meaning to try your books for a while now, having heard good things about them and I am a fan of hockey romance (notwithstanding that I’ve never watched a game and know very little about the sport, but you know… details), so I snapped up ... more >

Two young white men in casual Regency attire sit on a grassy hill in the countryside with facing one another with their foreheads together
July 7, 2020

REVIEW: Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book Reviewsbisexual / demisexual / friends-to-lovers / gray-ace / Historical / only one bed / queer3 Comments

Dear Cat Sebastian, I enjoyed A Gentleman Never Keeps Score when it came out – although the first book in your Seducing the Sedgwicks series, It Takes Two to Tumble, languishes on the TBR of Doom (I really must get to it) – so I was keen to read Two ... more >

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