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Illustrated cover in pink showing a city skyline in the background. A brown-haired, bearded hot white guy in a purple hockey jersey with the number 22 on it in long dark pants and ice skates, with a helmet and hockey stick on the nearby (pink) ice, is holding a pretty young white woman in jeans, a long sleeved white top and black booties. He's holding her just under the butt level on the sides and living her and she'd kicking her legs happily and embracing his face and neck, leaning toward him and smiling
July 25, 2025

REVIEW: Sweet Thing by Kate Meader

KaetrinB- Reviewsabusive parent / age gap / Contemporary / hockey / nanny / NetGalley / single dad / Sports2 Comments

Content notes: Dear Kate Meader, Lars Nyquist is a defenseman for the Chicago Rebels. He’s part of the ‘dream team’ on defense with captain, Theo Kershaw. Theo is in his mid-40s and the coming hockey year may be his last. Theo has won multiple championships but Lars has yet to ... more >

Orange cover with purple/blue detailing of dragons, flowers, cars with smoke coming out of the back, frogs and lightning. The bottom third and middle section is a love heart created by black trees bending over toward each other. Inside is pink with, on the left, a white silhouette of a tall woman in a cowboy hat holding a crossbow and a white silhouette of a shorter man on the right. They are either side of a portal which looks like a standing mirror.
July 14, 2025

REVIEW: The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen

KaetrinA Review Category / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsNetGalley / SFF9 Comments

Recommended Read

Note: Spoilers for previous books in the series are below. I do recommend reading the books in series order – they’re all great and you get a lot of world building necessary to understand the universe of the stories. Dear Megan Bannen, 10 years have passed since the events of ... more >

Illustrated cover with a blue background showing a pretty white girl with long brown hair coming down an escalator. She's wearing a pink tee and blue jeans and has a purple jacket tied around her wait and is holding a purple book. At the foot of the escalator is a hot young white guy wearing jeans and a grey henley. They are both facing front and he has his hands in his front pockets.
July 7, 2025

REVIEW: The Accidental Boyfriend by Lori Freeland

KaetrinB Reviews / Book Reviewsabsent parent / actor / author / Contemporary / grief / NetGalley / parental estrangement / YA1 Comments

Content notes – might be mildly spoilery so I’ve hidden them behind a spoiler tag Dear Lori Freeland, The Accidental Boyfriend popped up in my NetGalley choices earlier this year but it seems the book originally came out in 2023.  Jessica Grey, aka Jessica Thorne, is a 17-year-old debut author. ... more >

Illustrated cover with a sky blue background and large white titles taking up most of the middle. On the left middle/top is a young handsome Black man wearing shorts and a striped button up shirt (short sleeves) pink crocs. He has dark curly hair with blond tips and he's carrying a pink and white striped surfboard. On the middle/bottom right is a young and pretty Black girl with long braids, wearing a blue dress and sitting on a pile of pink books. She's writing in a notebook and looking back over her shoulder at the young man.
June 25, 2025

REVIEW: Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / NetGalley / New-York / summer / YAComments Off on REVIEW: Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams

Dear Tia Williams, I’ve been meaning to read a Tia Williams book for some time now and was happy to get the chance to read Audre & Bash are Just Friends. It’s a YA contemporary set in Brooklyn over a summer.  Audre is the daughter of Eva Mercy. (I didn’t ... more >

Illustrated cover in the style of a 1950s sci-fi movie featuring a purple and blue night sky background on the right and on the left and centre, a pretty white woman in the embrace of a blue alien with a kind of dragon face in blue with a touch of purple.
June 17, 2025

REVIEW: I Think I’m In Love With An Alien by Ann Aguirre

KaetrinB Reviews / Book Reviewsaliens / NetGalley / PNR / SFF6 Comments

Dear Ann Aguirre, First off, isn’t that cover great? It calls to mind 1950s sci-fi movies and I love that the alien is both not a little green man with a giant head and also feels quite close to the book’s description of Seeker. I mean, if you go for ... more >

Off-white background with lots of little light green alligators and the title in a darker green in large font. There are 3 large bullet holes in the picture, going from left to right in a kind of arc.
June 11, 2025

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Don’t Look Down by Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer, narrated by Patrick Lawlor & Renee Raudman

KaetrinAudiobooks / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsComedy / Movies / NetGalley / romantic-suspense5 Comments

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Dear Everyone, Don’t Look Down was originally released in 2006 and was the first book in what has become a longstanding writing partnership between Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. I read the book (in print) back in the day but didn’t listen to it at the time. Now, it’s being ... more >

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