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September 4, 2023

Review: Secrets Typed in Blood: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery #3 by Stephen Spotswood

SiriusB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / lesbian heroine / New-York / private detectiveNo Comments

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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series, Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. The Pentecost & Parker series “takes gritty 40s noir, ... more >

Title in large elegant cursive script against a blue night sky. At the foot of the cover is a pen and ink drawing of a city skyline.
December 31, 2019

REVIEW: Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / hand lettering / New-York9 Comments

Dear Kate Clayborn, I have a feeling I might be a bit of an outlier in this but it took me a little while to get into Love Lettering.  Meg Mackworth, known as “the Planner of Park Slope” hand letters planners and journals for clients. I didn’t even know that ... more >

White man in a tux with no jacket and the sleeves of his shirt rolled up dances with an Asian woman with long black hair in a dark blue dress, against the backdrop of a blurry early evening cityscape
June 26, 2018

REVIEW: It Takes Two by Jenny Holiday

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsCanada / Contemporary / lawyers / New-York / Toronto / weddings3 Comments

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Dear Jenny Holiday, I haven’t read One and Only, the first book in your Bridesmaids Behaving Badly series (yet – it’s on the TBR) but I heard such good things about it that I was keen to read the second book, It Takes Two. I also saw the pictures of ... more >

February 8, 2018

REVIEW: Mister McHottie by Pippa Grant

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / enemies to lovers / New-York / rom com8 Comments

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Dear Pippa Grant, Mandi from Smexy Books was tweeting about how much this book was making her laugh and how much fun she was having reading it. As soon as I read her review I one-clicked. Ambrosia Berger and Chase Jett grew up together in Wishberry Lake, Minnesota. (Ambrosia went ... more >

December 4, 2017

REVIEW: Most Eligible Bastard by Annika Martin

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsBillionaire / Contemporary / dog / enemies to lovers / New-York5 Comments

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Dear Annika Martin, What a delight Most Eligible Bastard was! Full of your quirky trademark humour and sweetly charming, as well as full of sexual tension. There was even one section (“the Smuckers Incident”) where I was actually laughing out loud – not smiling, or chuckling but actual full-on cackling ... more >

September 27, 2017

REVIEW: Temporary by Sarah Mayberry & Sarina Bowen

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / New-York4 Comments

Disclaimer: I’m friendly with both authors online and have met Sarah in person a few times. She even sent me Kit Kats once (I won a giveaway). I know them both well enough to know that if I didn’t like one of their books I could say so freely and ... more >

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