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January 23, 2018

REVIEW: Wedding Bellskis (Holidays with Bellskis #3) by Astrid Amara

SiriusA Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscontemporary m/m romance / Hanukkah / novella3 Comments

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Wedding Bellskis (Holidays with the Bellskis book 3) Seth Bellski and Lars Varga have opened their own law firm that specializes in representing the underrepresented–whistleblowers, disadvantaged employees, and those lacking power. The good news is, business is never slow. But that also means they are busy when all Seth really ... more >

January 17, 2018

Kaetrin’s Best of 2017

KaetrinReading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsContemporary / Fantasy / Historical / New Adult / novella / Urban-Fantasy / western / YA9 Comments

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I read 144 books in 2017 (including audiobooks) and I rated 25 of them (released in 2017) 5 stars on Goodreads. There were 12 audiobooks and 13 print/ebooks in that list. As I don’t review audiobooks here, I’ve confined my DA best of to the print/digital books. Despite lacking reading ... more >

January 16, 2018

REVIEW: All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells

SiriusB Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsnovella / Science Fiction12 Comments

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Blurb: A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. “As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.” In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the ... more >

January 1, 2018

REVIEW: Breaking the Rules by Ellen O’Connell

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAmerican historical / gunman / guns / Historical / novella / ranch / Western Romance / Widowed Heroine4 Comments

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On a cold winter night, Garn Coburn watches from shadows as two lawmen rough up a woman and leave her lying in the dirt looking like a pile of rags in the moonlight. Garn lives by his gun and by a set of rules he hopes will keep him alive. ... more >

December 23, 2017

REVIEW: The Winter Wife: A Christmas Novella by Anna Campbell

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / England / holiday novella / marriage on the rocks / novella / Regency / second chance at love7 Comments

Will a chance meeting on Christmas Eve… Alicia Sinclair, Countess of Kinvarra, cannot believe that fate has been so cruel as to strand her on the snowy Yorkshire moors with her estranged husband as her only hope of rescue. During their rare encounters, the arrogant earl and his countess act ... more >

December 21, 2017

REVIEW: Lady Charlotte’s Christmas Vigil by Caroline Warfield

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / Christmas / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / doctor hero / holiday novella / Italy / novella / Regency / Venice / widower3 Comments

Venice 1818 Lady Charlotte clings to one dream—to see the splendor of Rome before settling for life as the spinster sister of an earl. But now her feckless brother forces her to wait again, stranded in Venice when he falls ill, halfway to the place of her dreams. She finds ... more >

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