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July 20, 2026

REVIEW: Book Club Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsanxiety disorder / Books / Contemporary / grumpy hero / mental health / Movies / NetGalley / OCD / panic attacks4 Comments

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Dear Jenny Holiday, Readers first met reclusive and grumpy Minnesotan author Jack Branksome in last year’s Into the Woods which I didn’t review but which I loved. He had been having writer’s block and was struggling to begin his second novel after the massive and overwhelming success of his debut. ... more >

Illustrated cover with an orange background featuring a hot, white, brunette couple. He is on the left and wears a blue suit and white shirt and sunglasses, his body facing left, face to the front. She is wearing a slinky red sleeveless dress and her long hair is blowing across her eyes almost like a burglar's mask. She is facing right and looking back over her shoulder toward him with her eyes but face to the front
July 10, 2026

REVIEW: Spies, Lies, and Alibis by Natalie Walters

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsNetGalley / romantic adventure / romantic-suspense / second chance / spiesNo Comments

Dear Natalie Walters, Cybil Langford is working as a spy/informant for a private secret organisation, trying to get information about her employer, Earl Edmond. Bennett Bradley works for the FBI and is undercover as “Craig Miller” a shady financial expert who helps criminals move and launder money. He is after ... more >

Dark green cover with twining red roses, yellow titles over the top
May 27, 2026

REVIEW: The Final Target by Nora Roberts

KaetrinA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsNetGalley / romantic-suspense6 Comments

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Content Note: Violence, sexual violence Dear Nora Roberts, Arden Bowie is a young, debut author from Columbus, Ohio, having her first book signing. The last person to request she sign her book is Dustin Dubecki. Dustin wants to write as well, he tells her, and is hoping she’ll have a ... more >

cartoon style illustrated cover with a yellow/orange sunray style background featuring the faces of two attractive white people, a woman on the left and a man on the right, both looking very cool and wearing sunglasses - hers have red frames and blue lenses, his are black on black. The title is in red.
May 22, 2026

REVIEW: The Alias Agenda by Holly James

KaetrinBook Reviews / C ReviewsNetGalley / romantic-suspense / spiesNo Comments

When confidential informant Erin Daniels is abruptly pulled off an insider trading investigation and sent across the country with just a few hours’ notice, she’s definitely not expecting her new assignment to involve infiltrating a smuggling ring in a . . . suburban mommy group? She’s also not expecting to ... more >

Illustrated cover with top section containing white titles with a peach background and lower half of cover is an illustration of a couple sitting/leaning on the front of an older model light blue pickup truck on a road, with green grass on either side and trees in the far background. The couple are white, he is wearing brown pants and a teal green long sleeved shirt and has his arms crossed over his chest. He has dark hair. She has dark curly hair and it wearing a lilac pantsuit with a white top. She is curvy, maybe a size 16ish? They are facing front and not looking at one another
April 15, 2026

REVIEW: While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / enemies to lovers / NetGalley / road trip2 Comments

Dear Charlotte Stein, While You Were Seething is the third in Charlotte Stein’s fake relationship trilogy which commenced with When Grumpy Met Sunshine and continued with My Big Fat Fake Marriage. It’s fair to say I enjoyed the first two more than the third but how much of that is ... more >

Colourful illustration of a cobbled Parisian street in pinks, greens, yellows and blues, with a white couple kissing in the right foreground
April 7, 2026

REVIEW: The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn

KaetrinA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / disability / family / NetGalley / Paris11 Comments

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Dear Kate Clayborn, I knew as soon as I started reading The Paris Match I would be in for a treat. Nothing about that feeling changed as I continued to read. It is a beautifully written, evocative and deeply romantic novel.  Layla Bailey is a doctor, a hospitalist, who travels ... more >

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