Books by Sarina Bowen
B+
A standout read of my recent Sarina Bowen binge was the delightful novella Blonde Date, which used to be available by itself but is now only available in the Extra Credit anthology.
Blonde Date
Grade: AÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Sensuality: Warm
If you’ve kept up with The Ivy Years series, youâ ...
B+
Narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Stephen Dexter
Sarina Bowen’s The Understatement of the Year and the co-authored (with Elle Kennedy) Him/Us are some of my favourite m/m stories and go-to re-listens, so when I saw that Teddy Hamilton was on board for Roommate, the first book in a new series that ...
Bountiful by Sarina Bowen is the fourth story in her True North series. With rural Vermont as the backdrop, the series has focused on the farming community, the orchards and the country lifestyle of the Shipley family and friends. This time, the romance has moved into the small town of Tuxbury and i ...
B+
For anyone not familiar with Sarina Bowen’s True North series, it’s is a series of connected stand-alones that take place in rural Vermont. To me, they’re grounded and gritty, not shying away from the some of the realities of life in the 21st century - unemployment due to mill closures, the op ...
The blurb for Brooklynaire says ‘standalone’, and it is - technically. There’s nothing in this book that you won’t understand if you’ve not read any of Ms. Bowen’s Brooklyn Bruisers series about this ragtag hockey team from Brooklyn. However, the central relationship has been building th ...
A-
Sarina Bowen’s Pipe Dreams is a thoughtful and emotional love story with the perfect blend of reality and fantasy to make it feel relatable while also still feeling like escapism, and I loved it. It has all the fun associated with a contemporary sports romance but also delves into some of the comp ...
A-
Hockey star Blake Riley has such a large personality that he couldn’t be contained as merely a secondary character in last year’s Us. Using him as a launching point for their new WAGs series, co-authors Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy are taking on the love lives of the other players on Torontoâ ...
A-
Hockey season is in full swing and while I don’t watch a lot of games, as a Canadian it’s required viewing at least at some point during the year (or at any rate, someone in your family will have a game on TV while you’re sitting and reading on the couch). As sports romances go, ones with ho ...
C
I wanted to love this book. I've liked the other two books in the series despite my normal "eh" response to most New Adult. I've liked the hero, Zach, in the other books and love the "virgin hero" trope.
But, it was not to be. For starters, the premise of this book didn't work for me. The heroine ...
B-
As anyone who regularly reads my reviews knows, I have a not-so-secret love affair with sports romances - especially ones about hockey players.  Rookie Move (Brooklyn Bruisers) is the first in Ms. Bowen’s newest series about a fictional hockey team.  Much of this book lays the groundwork for la ...