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REVIEW: Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn

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Dear Kate Clayborn, I have a feeling I might be a bit of an outlier in this but it took me a little while to get into Love Lettering.  Meg Mackworth, known as “the Planner of Park Slope” hand letters planners and journals for clients. I didn’t even know that ... more >

Kaetrin’s Best of 2019 List

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This year I decided to do my best of list a little early. I don’t have any new releases on my list until next year so I felt it was safe. I had a fantastic reading year; I met my Goodreads challenge with more than a month to spare and ... more >

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REVIEW: One Christmas Eve by Shannon Stacey

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Dear Shannon Stacey, One Christmas Eve is the second novella in your Cedar Street series and features Zoe Randall, the cousin of the female lead in the first book, One Summer Weekend. I haven’t read the first book and it’s not necessary to do so (thought I think I’d enjoy ... more >

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JOINT REVIEW: Graveyard Shift by Jenn Burke

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Kaetrin: Graveyard Shift is book three in Jenn Burke’s Not Dead Yet series. Sirius and I have reviewed the previous two books together and thought we’d continue the tradition with this one. Please note spoilers for the previous two books follow. If you haven’t read them, look away now! * ... more >

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REVIEW: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Recommended Read

Dear Talia Hibbert, I was so happy to get the chance to read this book early. It did not disappoint. At all.  Well, there was one spot late in the piece where I was holding my breath and just about to say “oh no!” but then you went in a ... more >

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JOINT REVIEW: Someone to Remember by Mary Balogh

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Janine: In book six of Mary Balogh’s regency-set Westcott series, Someone to Honor, Matilda, the 56-year-old maiden aunt in the Westcott family, did something scandalous in calling on Viscount Dirkson with only her niece’s stepson, Bertrand, for company. Matilda’s purpose was to inform the viscount that Gil, his illegitimate son, ... more >

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