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Illustrated cover with purple background featuing a black-haired white lady as bride and a brown-haired white guy as groom. Both good-looking, they are standing back to back and looking at each other over their shoulders.
June 6, 2023

REVIEW: Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / Edelweiss / enemies to lovers / marriage-of-convenience / wine6 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Tessa Bailey, Anyone who knows me knows that enemies to lovers is a trope that’s more miss than hit for me. I don’t enjoy love interests being cruel and that seems to happen often with enemies to lovers. In this case, I was aided by your acknowledgements at the ... more >

February 7, 2023

REVIEW: Just My Type by Falon Ballard

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Edelweiss / journalists / rivals to lovers / second chance / work relationshipComments Off on REVIEW: Just My Type by Falon Ballard

Dear Falon Ballard, I loved your debut book released last year, Lease on Love. I didn’t review it but it stuck with me and I was very keen to read your follow up, Just My Type. While it wasn’t quite as successful for me as the previous book I did ... more >

July 12, 2022

REVIEW: Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik

KaetrinB Reviews / Book Reviewsadventure / Edelweiss / SFF / SFF romance / space / space opera4 Comments

Warning: Spoilers for book 1 follow Dear Jessie Mihalik, The Starlight’s Shadow trilogy, which kicked off with Hunt the Stars, continues with this second installment, Eclipse the Moon. The romantic pairing this time round is Kee Ildez (human, hacker and systems expert) and Varro Runkow (Valoff, telepath, weapons expert), who ... more >

Illustrated cover featuring a drive-in screen (containing the book's title in red font) and a fair-haired white guy leaning against a blue car and a dark-haired white guy leaning against the red car parked next to it.
May 21, 2022

REVIEW: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Edelweiss / forced proximity / Movies / queer / second chanceComments Off on REVIEW: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush,It’s been a few years since we were together, but I can’t stop thinking about the time we almost… Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the ... more >

Scottish landscape in green and gold, showing a valley and a river/lake running through it
October 5, 2021

REVIEW: The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley

KaetrinA Review Category / A Reviews / Recommended ReadsEdelweiss / Historical / Jacobites / Scotland / Slains5 Comments

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Dear Susanna Kearsley, A new book from you is always a treat for me. My favourite (of many favourites from you) is The Winter Sea, which is “Slains 1”. When I re-read The Winter Sea I’m always forced (happily) because reasons to then read at least some of The Firebird ... more >

illustrated cover of a pretty white red-haired woman in a sexy black cocktail dress in the style of bewitched with sparkles going across the cover to indicate magic, a hot bearded white man in a plaid shirt and jeans stands behind her off to one side his back to her
September 10, 2021

REVIEW: Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book Reviewsbisexual / cinnamon roll / Edelweiss / PNR / SFF / virgin hero / Witches4 Comments

Dear Ann Aguirre, When I saw the cover of Witch Please I had to request it – it put me in mind of “Bewitched” which I remember from my childhood when it was constantly on repeat in the evenings on TV. In some respects, there are some similarities in fact ... more >

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