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January 11, 2023

Kaetrin’s Best of 2022

KaetrinNeed A Rec! / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsBest of 2022 / Contemporary / historical mystery / male male romance / non-fiction / queer / science history / SFF10 Comments

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My reading year was up and down – a big slump in the middle didn’t help and the stress of moving house right near the end of the year meant I turned to comfort reads for the last 2 months or so. (In this time I read Kristen Ashley books ... more >

August 4, 2022

Review: The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Georgian Era / Historical / thief3 Comments

Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her. Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee ... more >

February 9, 2022

Review: The Missing Page (Page and Sommers #2) by Cat Sebastian

SiriusB Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviewscozy m/m mystery / gay historical / Page and Somme's3 Comments

England, 1948: Semi-retired spy Leo Page and country doctor James Sommers team up to solve a decades-old mystery. When James learns that an uncle he hasn’t heard from in ages has left him something in his will, he figures that the least he can do is head down to Cornwall ... more >

June 16, 2021

REVIEW: The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

SiriusB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsEnglish Historical / highwayman / m/m romance4 Comments

Critically acclaimed author Cat Sebastian makes her trade paperback debut in a stunning historical romance about a reluctantly reformed highwayman and the aristocrat who threatens to steal his heart. Kit Webb has left his stand-and-deliver days behind him. But dreary days at his coffee shop have begun to make him ... more >

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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 >

July 15, 2019

REVIEW: Hither, Page (Page & Sommers, #1) by Cat Sebastian

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsm/m historical romance / mystery / Page and Somme's / Post WWII3 Comments

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A jaded spy and a shell shocked country doctor team up to solve a murder in postwar England. James Sommers returned from the war with his nerves in tatters. All he wants is to retreat to the quiet village of his childhood and enjoy the boring, predictable life of a ... more >

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