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February 3, 2025

Review: The Games Gods Play (Crucible #1) by Abigail Owen

SiriusBook Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Categorygreek mythology / Romance / YAComments Off on Review: The Games Gods Play (Crucible #1) by Abigail Owen

Percy Jackson for adults meets The Hunger Games with a slow burn romance between a contestant and Hades himself. Every hundred years, the gods toy with us mere mortals. And we let them. The gods of myth are alive and well. Once every century, they select a new ruler in ... more >

December 5, 2024

REVIEW: PS: I Hate You by Lauren Connolly

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviewsbest friend's little sister / brother's best friend / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / First-Person / grief / rom-traum / toxic parent / travelComments Off on REVIEW: PS: I Hate You by Lauren Connolly

In this splendidly bittersweet romantic comedy, enemies forced together by a mutual loss are led on a cross-country journey toward a second chance. Maddie Sanderson would be proud to honor her older brother’s dying wish, that she scatters his ashes over eight destinations that the adventurous 29-year-old never got to ... more >

Illustrated cover with swirly red, pink and purple background, a white dark-haired, beared man in sunglasses and a green jacket stands on the left looking toward a white woman with a blonde bod wearing a blue dress and heels carrying a white clutch who stands on the right.
November 26, 2024

REVIEW: Still the One by Aimee Brown

KaetrinBook Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / FMX / Motocross / NetGalley / second chanceComments Off on REVIEW: Still the One by Aimee Brown

Dear Aimee Brown, Eve Cassidy is an ER nurse in Portland. A Facebook memory pops up to remind her that five years earlier, she married Guy Foster (who goes by Fost or Foster). They married after a whirlwind romance of only 30 days and split after three months. Every year ... more >

Illustrated cover with an olive background. A white woman with long curly/wavy brown hair sits on the hood of a black pickup truck, a white man wearing a backwards baseball cap stands between her thighs, he appears to be whispering in her ear and she's laughing/smiling
November 1, 2024

REVIEW: Highest Bidder by Dawn Anderson

KaetrinBook Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / Florida / NetGalley / rivals to lovers3 Comments

Content note: description of an incident of intimate partner violence from FMC’s former relationship Dear Dawn Anderson, I’ve never read a romance set in the world of car auctions before. It’s certainly an unusual setting. Hunter Smith is the daughter of the famous (within auctioneering circles at least) Conrad Smith. ... more >

October 10, 2024

REVIEW: The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviews1920s / 1980s / Big-Misunderstanding / Dual Timelines / female agency / Florida / New York City / pharmacist / second chance at loveComments Off on REVIEW: The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

It’s never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke ... more >

Cover in bluey purple, showing a woman runing toward an old house similar to one you'd find in the French Quarter of New Orleans, with iron scrollwork
August 26, 2024

REVIEW: Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose

KaetrinBook Reviews / C Reviewslibrarian / NetGalley / New-Orleans / PTSD / romantic-suspense / service dogComments Off on REVIEW: Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose

Dear Karen Rose, Cora Jane Winslow’s father disappeared when she was nearly five years old, 23 years ago. She, her brother and her mother, believed that he had run off with another woman. Cora had been receiving letters from her dad on and off for years. But two weeks before ... more >

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