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November 19, 2025

REVIEW: Magically Generated by Jackie Lau

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsCanada / grumpy / sunshine / holiday novella / novella / POC / POC author / poc hero / Toronto2 Comments

A jaded woman falls for her sunshine neighbor in this cozy Christmas romance. Nora Blackburn is suspicious of everything she sees and hears. Is it fake? Is someone trying to scam her? God, it’s exhausting, but she can’t let down her guard again. She’s tired of Christmas cheer as well. ... more >

Illustrated cover of two good looking white men in an embrace on a beach with dark sand. A safety beacon/lighthouse of some kind striped in red and white is in the far left background. One man has dark red hair and a beard and is wearing a blue plaid shirt, the other man is wearing a red and blue hockey jersey and is holding a hockey stick. Only their torsos above the waist are showing.
March 7, 2025

REVIEW: The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsCanada / Contemporary / grief / m/m romance / NetGalley / Nova Scotia / queer / second chance / Small-Town / sports romance4 Comments

Content note: Dear Rachel Reid, Riley Tuck and Adam Sheppard used to play hockey together for the Toronto Northmen. They were rookie defensemen together in the early 2000s and shared an apartment. They hit it off straight away and soon became best friends. Riley fell in love with Adam, believing ... more >

Illustrated cover with background in various shades of green, showing a mountain setting and a waterfall flowing down into a lake or river, a white couple stand in the foreground to the left, she is facing a little away and has her arms crossed, he is facing front and has his hands in his front jeans pockets.
November 14, 2024

REVIEW: Keeping You by Alex Taylor

KaetrinBook Reviews / DNF ReviewsCanada / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / Las Vegas marriage / NetGalley4 Comments

Dear Alex Taylor, I usually like a fake marriage/Las Vegas marriage story but this one was not for me. ER doctor Grayson Maxwell and ER Nurse Hannah Smith share the same friendship group and work in the same emergency room, often sharing the the same shifts. They dated briefly a ... more >

Illustrated cover with a red background, featuring a South Asian woman in the top right and a South Asian man in the lower left, generally looking toward one another, with the title in the centre, with a peacock feather design around each person.
September 10, 2024

REVIEW: Sunshine and Spice by Aurora Palit

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsCanada / Contemporary / cultural differences / fake relationship / first generation immigrant / NetGalley / secret relationship / South-Asian CanadianComments Off on REVIEW: Sunshine and Spice by Aurora Palit

Dear Aurora Palit, Naomi Kelly was born to Bengali parents in Canada. Her biological father abandoned her mother, Supriya – aka “Sue” and Sue then left her own parents and rejected the South Asian community altogether. Sue subsequently married a wonderful Canadian man who was a loving and engaged father ... more >

August 30, 2024

REVIEW: The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past by Roxana Spicer

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsCanada / Germany / Historical / mothers and daughters / non-fiction / prisoner of war / Russia / World War II7 Comments

The masterful narration of a daughter’s decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin’s Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to ... more >

Illustrated cover all in tones of blue showing a couple embracing on a racecourse, mountains in the background.
July 16, 2024

REVIEW: Off to the Races by Elsie Silver

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsCanada / Contemporary / Edelweiss / horse racing1 Comments

Dear Elsie Silver, This book (and the others in the series) was originally self-published. It took BookTok by storm and the author subsequently landed a traditional publishing deal. Off to the Races is the first book in the Gold Rush Ranch series, all of which are being re-released by Sourcebooks ... more >

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