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Handsome older white man with salt and pepper hair and black-framed glasses sits casually on a floor against a concrete wall decorated with various line drawings
March 15, 2021

REVIEW: Let’s Go Out by Kelly Jensen

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsanxiety / Contemporary / interracial-romance / m/m romance / mental illness / novella / older MCs / queer4 Comments

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CW: depictions of anxiety, panic attacks, mention of pet death Dear Kelly Jensen, Let’s Go Out is book 2 in your Let’s Connect series, originally published in serial format and available to your newsletter subscribers. After the story is completed in the newsletter, you then publish it for sale to ... more >

Illustrated cover of a stylish white man and a Black man in a dark suit on either side of a huge bunch of flowers with a banner in pink reading "Love"
January 27, 2021

REVIEW: Teddy Spenser Isn’t Looking for Love by Kim Fielding

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / forced proximity / Gay / interracial-romance / office romance / only one bed / pansexual / POC2 Comments

Some people search their whole lives to find love. He just wants to avoid it. Teddy Spenser spends his days selling design ideas to higher-ups, living or dying on each new pitch. Stodgy engineer types like Romeo Blue, his nemesis—if you can call someone who barely talks to you a ... more >

Illustrated cover mostly in yellow, with a bearded Brown man holding a Black woman in his arms (like a bridal carry). She has short pink hair and is wearing a black dress and heels.
June 24, 2020

REVIEW: Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

KaetrinA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / fake relationship / interracial-romance / mental health8 Comments

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CW: anxiety, depression, grief Dear Talia Hibbert, I don’t really know what fits into the “rom com” subgenre and what just falls into the contemporary bucket. My personal preference is to regard all of them as contemporary romance and not bother about the rom com label at all. That way, ... more >

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April 21, 2020

REVIEW: Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / disordered eating / Edelweiss / interracial-romance / mental illness / multicultural / panic disorder / POC / POC author / PTSD5 Comments

CW: Emotional abuse. Depiction of mental illness, including panic attacks, flashbacks and nightmares. Disordered eating is also mentioned/suggested. Dear Alisha Rai, I loved The Right Swipe last year and ever since have been looking forward to Katrina’s story in Girl Gone Viral. Katrina King-Arora, a Thai-American, is a former supermodel ... more >

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February 6, 2020

REVIEW: The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / enemies to lovers / interracial-romance / Wedding Planner15 Comments

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Dear Mia Sosa, Lina Santos gets stood up on her wedding day by Andrew Hartley. The news of his defection is delivered by the erstwhile best man, his younger brother, Max. According to a text he received from Andrew, something a drunken Max said the night before resonated with him ... more >

Red-headed white woman in an embrace with a bearded Black man in a suit. He has his hand at the back of her neck with his thumb on her cheek and they're laughing.
January 20, 2020

REVIEW: Headliners by Lucy Parker

KaetrinA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / enemies to lovers / interracial-romance / London / TV5 Comments

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NOTE TO READERS: The following review necessarily contains spoilers for the previous book in the London Celebrities series, The Austen Playbook. If you haven’t read it yet, perhaps best to look away now. Dear Lucy Parker, I admit I’m not generally a fan of the enemies-to-lovers trope. It’s not that ... more >

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