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Illustrated cover with a yellow background featuring large white titles. A pretty white woman with dark hair wearing a red bikini and a sunhat reads a book with a golden retriever dog nearby on top of "Happy" and a handsome white guy in blue swim shorts relaxes with a cocktail on "ending". There's a sandcastle at the bottom of the titles.
May 7, 2026

REVIEW: Happy Ending by Chloe Liese

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBooks / Contemporary / cooking / divorce / Edelweiss / Pittsburgh2 Comments

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  Dear Chloe Liese, I generally enjoy Chloe Liese books anyway but the premise of Happy Ending especially caught my attention: Two people discover their ex-spouses are dating and, still hurting from their very recent divorces, pretend they are old friends/lovers who have reconnected and are together as well. Hijinks ... more >

Illustrated cover featuring a hot white couple on a dock leaning against a railing and looking over at each other. Behind them the sun is setting. She is on the left and has long brown hair. She's wearing a white cropped tee and a short cutoff denim skirt. He has dark hair and wears a grey tee and black ripped jeans. The background colours are pastel rainbow tones.
March 17, 2026

REVIEW: Love Song by Elle Kennedy

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Edelweiss / musicNo Comments

Content warning: Spoiler alert – don’t click if you don’t want to know Dear Elle Kennedy, Blake Logan (only daughter of John Logan and Grace Ivers from The Mistake) has a bad breakup with her boyfriend and heads to Lake Tahoe and the house co-owned by the Logans and the ... more >

Illustrated cover featuring a silhouette of a guy and a girl on the left and right respectively, their silhouettes are the night sky and the background is a daylight and slightly darker blue sky with a red sunset down the bottom. The foot of the cover is an ocean with a building in the middle of it, being splashed by waves.
April 8, 2025

REVIEW: Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsEdelweiss / romantic adventure / SFF / space opera4 Comments

Dear Beth Revis, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the Chaotic Orbits trilogy which started in Full Speed To A Crash Landing and continued in How To Steal A Galaxy. I admit I was a little concerned when I opened the novella and saw it was only 77 pages ... more >

Teal green background with blue thistles (maybe?) and a songbird (of some sort) in the foreground. There are gold swirls in a kind of feathery curly pattern in the lower section foreground of the cover
March 4, 2025

REVIEW: The King’s Messenger by Susanna Kearsley

KaetrinAudiobooks / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Ebooks / Recommended ReadsAngus King / Beth Eyre / Edelweiss / England / Historical fiction / Scotland / SFF4 Comments

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It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and advisor of the late Prince Henry. Secrets are second nature to Andrew, who must hide his Second Sight to stay alive. Joined by ... more >

Illustrated cover showing three white people in winter clothes, a man in a blue jacket and pale scarf holding the hand of little girl in a pink unicorn beanie and a green jacket who is in turn holding the hand of a woman wearing a pink jacket and earmuffs. They are walking between two Christmas trees down a path cleared of snow, toward a two story wooden cabin/house.
September 18, 2024

REVIEW: The Christmas You Found Me by Sarah Morgenthaler

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Edelweiss / marriage-of-convenience / Small-Town / terminal illness2 Comments

Sienna Naples’s family has taken care of their wild Idaho land for generations and Sienna can’t imagine any other life. But at Christmastime, with her parents gone and her painful marriage finally over, it’s full of memories…and incredibly lonely. Until a tall, handsome stranger and a little girl walk into ... 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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