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Illustrated cover in blue featuing a white couple in a clinch. He has dark longish hair and a beard and she has long wavy blonde hair. They're both big and broad. He's wearing a dark suit and tie and she's in costume wearing something like a pirate outfit with a sword.
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 >

Illustrated cover in blue featuing a white couple in a clinch. He has dark longish hair and a beard and she has long wavy blonde hair. They're both big and broad. He's wearing a dark suit and tie and she's in costume wearing something like a pirate outfit with a sword.
November 15, 2022

REVIEW: Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

KaetrinA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactors / Contemporary / NetGalley / tv show2 Comments

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CW: Death of a parent, abandonment Dear Olivia Dade, Excuse me while I gush. I loved last year’s All The Feels – Ship Wrecked is even better. The book I read immediately prior took me more than two weeks to read. I read Ship Wrecked in two days. From the ... more >

Illustrated cover, in the backround is a line drawing of the Saroyan Steps in California, in the foreground is a handsome white man with light brown hair, long and shaggy, and a scruffy beard, in a slate grey henley and dark jeans. He has one hand in his back pocket and the other is gesturing, low at his hip. Next to him stands a fat white woman with chin length hair, wearing a tee which had "BHE" which stands for Big Harpy Energy on it and jeans, She has her arms crossed in front of her and is leaning back slightly, looking up at him (he's much taller) with an "oh really?" expression in response to his smile and whatever ridiculous thing he's just said.
November 16, 2021

REVIEW: All the Feels by Olivia Dade

KaetrinA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactor / ADHD / California / Contemporary / fanfiction / fat representation / forced proximity / friends-to-lovers / mental health / NetGalley / work relationship16 Comments

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CW: Domestic violence themes, fatphobia Dear Olivia Dade, First off, may I just say that the cover is perfect. It’s entirely true to the book and just staring at it makes me happy. Leni Kauffman (the artist) is such a talent. Alex Woodroe is an actor on the Game of ... more >

January 15, 2021

Kaetrin’s best of 2020

KaetrinReading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsBest of 2020 / best of list6 Comments

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Well, 2020 pretty much sucked. I suffered my way through a number of reading slumps and spent a long time doing something I hardly ever did before – re-reading. I turned to comfort reads for weeks at a time because things were just awful. I didn’t read as many new ... more >

October 9, 2020

REVIEW: Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviewsactor / dysfunctional family / dyslexia / emotional abuse / fandom / fanfic / fat MC / fat shaming / insta love / online community10 Comments

Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. The world may know him as Aeneas, star of the biggest show on television, but fanfiction readers call him something else: Book!AeneasWouldNever. Marcus gets out his frustrations with the show through anonymous stories about the internet’s favorite couple, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone discovered ... more >

Illustrated cover of a fat white woman with short brown hair sitting on a park bench holding hands with a bearded white guy dark hair, in the background of autum colours, the leaves are being blown off the trees by a high wind
July 31, 2020

REVIEW: Sweetest in the Gale by Olivia Dade

KaetrinA Reviews / A- Reviews / B Reviews / Recommended ReadsAnthology / grief / novella / teachers3 Comments

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CW: Grief, substance abuse, cancer Dear Olivia Dade, Sweetest in the Gale is an anthology featuring three novellas set in your Marysburg series set in and around Marysburg High School in Virginia (although, in the case of the last novella, the link to the high school is somewhat tenuous). Two ... more >

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