posts by Kaetrin Allen:
Dear Mary Balogh, For those who have read the Westcott series, it’s been a long wait for Winifred to get her HEA. Remember That Day is something of a crossover book, featuring the Westcotts and the Wares (of Ravenswood) and the cast is enormous. So much so, the author has ... more >
It’s that time of year again! I went through and looked at all the 2025 releases I’d rated 5 stars on Goodreads. I had 11, so I decided to include all of them. Misdirected by Lucy Parker, narrated by Gwilym Lee and Nicola Coughlan – Parker is the queen of ... more >
Dear Jess K Hardy, Mira Harlow runs “Glazed and Confused”, the local bakery in Red Falls, the town closest to Bluebird Basin. She’s a single mother, with a 14-year-old son, Ian and a mother who is in the early stages of what what will probably become dementia. Cole Sanderson is ... more >
Dear Jess K Hardy, Ashley Cooke is a 46-year-old divorcee who runs Bluebird Basin ski resort in Montana, with her mother, Maude Alice. Her father passed away three years earlier and it’s been struggle street since then to keep the resort open. She’s under pressure from her skeevy cheating ex-husband, ... more >
Dear Trilina Pucci, One Killer Night had a really great start and I had high hopes when I began reading. It certainly has a very fun meet-cute. Goldie is in Walmart picking up more fake blood for her sister’s Halloween party. She’s dressed in an inflatable T-Rex costume and she ... more >
Dear Patricia Briggs, Blind Date With a Werewolf is a novel told in five short stories (plus a brief epilogue), featuring Asil (“the Moor”), one of my very favourite werewolves (admittedly there are a few of them but still) in the Alpha & Omega/Mercy Thompson universe. Three of the short ... more >