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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 >

December 5, 2025

Review: After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian

SiriusA Reviews / A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Reads1960s / contemporary m/m romance / found family / grief / music / New-York8 Comments

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1968 New York City News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at night–news in general might be keeping Patrick up at night–but he’s doing fine. He’s sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights ... more >

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September 6, 2024

Reading List by Jayne for Late Summer/Early Autumn

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews / Reading ListsArt / costume / music / non-fiction / prison / Reading lists / travel4 Comments

Go to Hell: A Traveler’s Guide to Earth’s Most Otherworldly Destinations by Erika Engelhaupt You can go to hell and back with the help of this one-of-a-kind illustrated travel guide to real-life underworld destinations around the globe. Full of intrigue, lore, and plenty of brimstone and fire, each of the ... more >

October 16, 2023

Review: All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim

SiriusB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ ReviewsFilipino American / gay romance / music / POC / POC author10 Comments

In this hilarious and joyous rom com, sparks fly when a piano genius and a Hollywood heartthrob are thrown together for a charity performance of solos, heartfelt duets, and a big, show-stopping finale. Quito Cruz might be a genius piano player and composer in New York City now but it ... more >

Illustrated cover in light blue dotted with snowflakes, a green Christmas tree in the top centre and sparkling Christmas lights on a green string curling around from the bottom to the top, a book looking white couple with dark hair hand in hand walking toward the viewer, they are looking at each other
October 3, 2023

REVIEW: Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / music / NetGalleyComments Off on REVIEW: Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

Dear Tessa Bailey, Beat Dawkins and Melody Gallard are the (adult) children of the two women who made up the Steel Birds, an iconic band in the 1980s and 1990s. When the Steel Birds broke up in something known as “the Incident” both Octavia and Trina were pregnant with their ... more >

December 13, 2022

Bridgerton, Season Two: A Discussion, Part I

JanineFilm Reviewscostumes / courtship / diversity / love triangles / marriage / music / sisters / social climbing / television series / tv adaptation / viscount2 Comments

Janine: Last year, Layla and I wrote a series of posts about the first season of Bridgerton, and early this year we wanted to do the same for the second season. By the time we finished writing that post, though, we felt it would be more appropriate to run it ... more >

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