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Illustrated cover with a mountain background with some snow but also some green and blue sunny skies. In the foreground and slightly to the right, is a good looking older white couple embracing. He has a black v-neck tee on and has gray short but slightly shaggy hair and is wearing aviator sunglasses on his head. She has dark long hair with bangs and shaved bits above her ears. She is built and is wearing a white long sleeved tee. He is facing the front and she is side on in his arms and they are smiling at each other.
December 3, 2025

REVIEW: Lips Like Sugar by Jess K Hardy

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsaddiction / bisexual / Contemporary / Gen X / older protagonists / queer / recovery / Rock-Star / seasoned romance7 Comments

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Dear Jess K Hardy, Mira Harlow runs “Glazed and Confused”, the local bakery in Red Falls, the town closest to Bluebird Basin. She’s a single mother, with a 14-year-old son, Ian and a mother who is in the early stages of what what will probably become dementia. Cole Sanderson is ... more >

November 26, 2025

REVIEW: Come As You Are by Jess K Hardy

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsaddiction / Contemporary / Gen X / older protagonists / queer / recovery / Rock-Star / seasoned romance4 Comments

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Dear Jess K Hardy, Ashley Cooke is a 46-year-old divorcee who runs Bluebird Basin ski resort in Montana, with her mother, Maude Alice. Her father passed away three years earlier and it’s been struggle street since then to keep the resort open. She’s under pressure from her skeevy cheating ex-husband, ... more >

Illustrated cover in murky blues and greens showing a spooky Gothic house with yellowed light in the windows and two white gentlemen wearing suits running from it.
October 8, 2025

REVIEW: All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsGothic / Historical / m/m romance / murder / mystery / NetGalley / queer6 Comments

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Dear KJ Charles, Most of the Wyckham family are not what one might call shining examples of humanity – except for Zebedee (Zeb) Wyckham. He tries to avoid his family wherever possible and for good reason. Zeb has what we would now call ADHD although there was no diagnosis in ... more >

The title is in large white block letters which takes up much of the cover. The O in "of" is a disco ball from which radiates various colours of sparkling light - purple, gold, blur and green. On the left in the middle is a photo of part of the face of a blonde drag queen, on the top right is a shirtless man sitting on a beach in the late afternoon sun and in the bottom right is a picture of a boardwalk surrounded by sand with a lighthouse at the end on the right. The author's name is in sparkly gold at the top in smaller writing.
June 4, 2025

REVIEW: Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell

KaetrinB Reviews / Book Reviews1989 / AIDS / gay culture / Historical / NetGalley / queer / SFF / Witches3 Comments

Dear Blair Fell, I stumbled across this author’s debut audiobook when it was a daily deal at Audible in 2022 (which for some reason feels like last year). The Sign for Home made my Best listens of 2022. (I have a brief review of it at Goodreads, here). So, when ... more >

Illustrated cover of two good looking white men in an embrace on a beach with dark sand. A safety beacon/lighthouse of some kind striped in red and white is in the far left background. One man has dark red hair and a beard and is wearing a blue plaid shirt, the other man is wearing a red and blue hockey jersey and is holding a hockey stick. Only their torsos above the waist are showing.
March 7, 2025

REVIEW: The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsCanada / Contemporary / grief / m/m romance / NetGalley / Nova Scotia / queer / second chance / Small-Town / sports romance4 Comments

Content note: Dear Rachel Reid, Riley Tuck and Adam Sheppard used to play hockey together for the Toronto Northmen. They were rookie defensemen together in the early 2000s and shared an apartment. They hit it off straight away and soon became best friends. Riley fell in love with Adam, believing ... more >

Kind of anime-looking SFF cover in blues with some green and purple, showing a city which has diffuse light and looks a little bit like the inside of a computer. A young man (I think) stands with his back to our view, looking at the vastness of the city in front of him.
February 13, 2025

REVIEW: The City Without End by Kelly Jensen

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsAro/Ace / m/m romance / queer / SFF2 Comments

Dear Kelly Jensen, I read To See the Sun in 2019 (though it was released in 2018) and enjoyed it very much so when the author kindly offered me a review copy of the follow up I said yes. While they are set in the same universe, To See the ... more >

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