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Black and white image of a shirtless hot young man with tribal tattoos on his upper arms and chest, leaning against a wall with one arm above his head. He's looking down, kind of via his armpit. In his other hand he's carrying a rugby ball which is resting against his black trackpants-clad leg
May 4, 2022

REVIEW: Kiss Hard by Nalini Singh

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdisability / fake relationship / found family / frenemies to lovers / friends-to-lovers / NetGalley / New Zealand / POC / POC author / rugbyNo Comments

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Dear Nalini Singh, It’s been a while since the last Hard Play release (Love Hard – I did in fact love it hard) and there have been a lot of books in between, so I’d kind of forgotten who Catie and Danny were and the various relationships in the Bishop-Esera ... more >

March 4, 2021

REVIEW: Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh

JennieB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsmystery / New Zealand / POC / POC author / thriller8 Comments

Dear Nalini Singh: A friend alerted me to this book, knowing I was a reader of both your Psy/Changeling series and, in recent years, of the thriller/suspense genre. I was curious to see how my two interests would converge here. The book is narrated by Aarav Rai, an author whose ... more >

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March 13, 2020

REVIEW: Love Hard by Nalini Singh

KaetrinA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / enemies to lovers / New Zealand / POC author / rugby / single dad9 Comments

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Dear Nalini Singh, Sometimes a book arrives at just the perfect time and that special alchemy that happens between story and reader happens; a combination of great book and the exact right reading mood. That’s what happened here. I admit enemies to lovers isn’t generally my favourite trope. But Jacob ... more >

November 23, 2016

REVIEW: Fall by Karina Bliss

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / New Zealand / Rock-Star6 Comments

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Dear Karina Bliss, When I read the You Had Me At Christmas anthology recently, my favourite novella was Play. When you offered me a review copy of Fall, I snapped it up. It took me much of the book to work out that Fall begins before the action in Play. ... more >

December 20, 2015

REVIEW: The Perfect Gift by Serenity Woods

KaetrinB- Reviewsasthma / Billionaire / Contemporary / New Zealand / single mum / widower6 Comments

Dear Serenity Woods, I saw this story advertised in your newsletter, so I bought it. Pediatrician Brock King, together with his brothers, Charlie and Matt, run the “We Three Kings” foundation; a charitable organisation for sick children and their families. Their younger sister died after an asthma attack when Brock ... more >

September 8, 2015

Tuesday News: Book banning, ad blocking, spam, and piracy

JanetPublishing Newsad blocking / censorship / Chrome / copyright / intellectual property / New Zealand / piracy / spam / YouTube6 Comments

Book banned after Christian complaint -New Zealand now has its first banned book in more than 20 years, Ted Dawe’s Into the River, which was named Book of the Year in 2013 at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. The ban is particularly troubling because the main character in ... more >

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