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Illustrated cover with swirly red, pink and purple background, a white dark-haired, beared man in sunglasses and a green jacket stands on the left looking toward a white woman with a blonde bod wearing a blue dress and heels carrying a white clutch who stands on the right.
November 26, 2024

REVIEW: Still the One by Aimee Brown

KaetrinBook Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / FMX / Motocross / NetGalley / second chanceComments Off on REVIEW: Still the One by Aimee Brown

Dear Aimee Brown, Eve Cassidy is an ER nurse in Portland. A Facebook memory pops up to remind her that five years earlier, she married Guy Foster (who goes by Fost or Foster). They married after a whirlwind romance of only 30 days and split after three months. Every year ... more >

April 24, 2024

REVIEW: Not How I Pictured It by Robin Lefler

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviewsactor/actress / Bahamas / Closed circle mystery / Contemporary / Fiction / forced proximity / mystery / second chance / self discovery / tv show2 Comments

A sharply hilarious and ultimately heartfelt novel about a former teen superstar who grudgingly agrees to a reboot of the show that made her (in)famous, from the author of Reasonable Adults. Twenty years after Ocean Views went off the air, the beloved TV show about teenage romance and angst is ... more >

February 7, 2023

REVIEW: Just My Type by Falon Ballard

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Edelweiss / journalists / rivals to lovers / second chance / work relationshipComments Off on REVIEW: Just My Type by Falon Ballard

Dear Falon Ballard, I loved your debut book released last year, Lease on Love. I didn’t review it but it stuck with me and I was very keen to read your follow up, Just My Type. While it wasn’t quite as successful for me as the previous book I did ... more >

illustrated cover in blue, a night beach scene: rear view of upper back and dark hair of a young white woman with a large brown shoulder bag on her shoulder facing a campfire/bonfire with a white guy witih dark hair on the other side of the fire watching her, he has one hand up behind his neck and the other in his pocket.
October 4, 2022

REVIEW: Bad Girl Reputation by Elle Kennedy

KaetrinBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsAvalon Bay / Contemporary / NetGalley / second chance5 Comments

CWs: mildly spoilerish so click at your own risk Dear Elle Kennedy, Bad Girl Reputation is the second book in your Avalon Bay series and the follow up to last year’s Good Girl Complex. Readers first met Evan Hartley in Good Girl Complex when his twin brother, Cooper, got his ... more >

July 15, 2022

JOINT REVIEW: Remember Love by Mary Balogh

KaetrinB Reviews / C- ReviewsHistorical / joint review / NetGalley / Regency / second chance22 Comments

Janine and I have reviewed the last few Mary Balogh books together so we decided to continue that tradition with the newest release.  ~ Kaetrin Content warning: Fatphobia. Kaetrin: Remember Love is clearly the beginning of a new series for Balogh – the first chapters introduce a huge cast of ... more >

Illustrated cover featuring a drive-in screen (containing the book's title in red font) and a fair-haired white guy leaning against a blue car and a dark-haired white guy leaning against the red car parked next to it.
May 21, 2022

REVIEW: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Edelweiss / forced proximity / Movies / queer / second chanceComments Off on REVIEW: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush,It’s been a few years since we were together, but I can’t stop thinking about the time we almost… Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the ... more >

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