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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

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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 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 >

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 featuring a silhouette of a guy and a girl on the left and right respectively, their silhouettes are the night sky and the background is a daylight and slightly darker blue sky with a red sunset down the bottom. The foot of the cover is an ocean with a building in the middle of it, being splashed by waves.
April 8, 2025

REVIEW: Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsEdelweiss / romantic adventure / SFF / space opera4 Comments

Dear Beth Revis, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the Chaotic Orbits trilogy which started in Full Speed To A Crash Landing and continued in How To Steal A Galaxy. I admit I was a little concerned when I opened the novella and saw it was only 77 pages ... more >

Teal green background with blue thistles (maybe?) and a songbird (of some sort) in the foreground. There are gold swirls in a kind of feathery curly pattern in the lower section foreground of the cover
March 4, 2025

REVIEW: The King’s Messenger by Susanna Kearsley

KaetrinAudiobooks / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Ebooks / Recommended ReadsAngus King / Beth Eyre / Edelweiss / England / Historical fiction / Scotland / SFF4 Comments

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It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and advisor of the late Prince Henry. Secrets are second nature to Andrew, who must hide his Second Sight to stay alive. Joined by ... 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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