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August 6, 2019

REVIEW: The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAthlete / Contemporary / dating / multiracial romance / POC / POC author6 Comments

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Dear Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe is the first in your new Modern Love series.  The heroine, Rhiannon Hunter, is the sister of the hero in your earlier book, Hurts to Love You (which is on my TBR) but there isn’t really more of a link between the two series ... more >

February 23, 2018

REVIEW: A Bicycle Made for Two by Mary Jayne Baker

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAthlete / Contemporary / England / First-Person / second chance romance / Small Town Romance / YorkshireComments Off on REVIEW: A Bicycle Made for Two by Mary Jayne Baker

Chock-full of colourful characters, bawdy wit and a bit of love and passion for good measure. In a lost corner of the Yorkshire Dales, Lana Donati runs a medieval theme tourist trap restaurant with her brother. As a distraction to help them get over losing the father they loved dearly, ... more >

July 28, 2017

REVIEW: Fit for You by Cynthia Tennent

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAthlete / Contemporary / First-Person / fitness / MichiganComments Off on REVIEW: Fit for You by Cynthia Tennent

Small towns have the biggest hearts. In the split-second it takes to injure her knee, Lily Shue’s life goes from rising star to small town reject. Forced to give up her role as a trainer on a hit reality fitness show, she takes a job in tiny Truhart, Michigan. By ... more >

May 18, 2016

REVIEW: Undecided by Julianna Keyes

KaetrinB Reviews / B+ ReviewsAthlete / athlete hero / college / Contemporary / New Adult10 Comments

Dear Julianna Keyes, When you sent me a review request for Undecided, I hesitated. The cover suggested “love triangle” to me. (Apparently I’m not the only one.) You kindly reassured me that there is no love triangle and so here we are. (There are two guys in the story and ... more >

December 6, 2015

REVIEW: Last Chance Llama Ranch by Hilary Fields

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsAthlete / chick-lit / Contemporary / dysfunctional family / from enemies to lovers / humorous / Writer4 Comments

When a close encounter with an eighty-foot spruce steals Merry Manning’s dreams of Olympic gold, the former ski champ finds herself falling into a career she never expected — the life of a travel writer. Picturing glamorous trips to exotic places, Merry is speechless when her boss assigns her to ... more >

March 14, 2015

REVIEW: The Fighter and the Fallen Woman by Pamela Cayne

JaneB- ReviewsAthlete / courtesan / Fighter / Historical3 Comments

Dear Ms. Cayne: The blurb says that King and Lady have the choice of staying spoiled and safe or breaking free but I felt like that wasn’t the real conflict. Because of Mr. Adams, their owner’s capriciousness (perhaps one might say psycopathic), every day was a possible danger to them if ... more >

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