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Illustrated cover with a royal blue background showing a big muscular white man with red hair and a red beard wearing a cap with hockey sticks on the front and a grey henley holding (in one of his arms) a pretty white woman with a brown ponytail wearing a red and white softball uniform. His other hand is in his pocket. The image shows them from about their hips upwards. The title is in red and yellow.
September 12, 2025

REVIEW: Pitcher Perfect by Tessa Bailey

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / fake dating / he falls first / hockey / NetGalley / softball / Sports2 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Tessa Bailey, Pitcher Perfect is book 4 in the Big Shots series which commenced with Fangirl Down – a series which was originally a duology and expanded because characters who needed a HEA kept appearing. Robbie Corrigan is one half of the rookie pair who play hockey for the ... more >

Illustrated cover in pink showing a city skyline in the background. A brown-haired, bearded hot white guy in a purple hockey jersey with the number 22 on it in long dark pants and ice skates, with a helmet and hockey stick on the nearby (pink) ice, is holding a pretty young white woman in jeans, a long sleeved white top and black booties. He's holding her just under the butt level on the sides and living her and she'd kicking her legs happily and embracing his face and neck, leaning toward him and smiling
July 25, 2025

REVIEW: Sweet Thing by Kate Meader

KaetrinB- Reviewsabusive parent / age gap / Contemporary / hockey / nanny / NetGalley / single dad / Sports2 Comments

Content notes: Dear Kate Meader, Lars Nyquist is a defenseman for the Chicago Rebels. He’s part of the ‘dream team’ on defense with captain, Theo Kershaw. Theo is in his mid-40s and the coming hockey year may be his last. Theo has won multiple championships but Lars has yet to ... more >

May 15, 2025

REVIEW: Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time by Ryan McGee

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBaseball / coming-of-age / Memoir / non-fiction / North-Carolina / Sports4 Comments

A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness and charm ensue as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce, and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina ... more >

Illustrated cover with a bright blue background showing blue bookshelves filled with blue books, standing in between the shelves are a white couple, a tall handsome guy in hockey gear and a woman with long dark hair in a pink dress (who is not at all as curvy as the book's character, so disappointing).
November 7, 2024

REVIEW: Breaking the Ice by Amy Andrews

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / fat representation / friends-to-lovers / NetGalley / SportsComments Off on REVIEW: Breaking the Ice by Amy Andrews

Dear Amy Andrews, Samantha Evans has not been interested in commitment and children of her own before now. She thought she’d never want kids. But recently, her “eggs have started cheeping” and suddenly, what Sam wants in her life has drastically changed. Up until now, she had been working her ... more >

Illustrated cover in blue showing a handsome dark haired and bearded white man in hockey gear and holding a hockey stick carrying a pretty white woman over his shoulder. they are both smiling.
July 22, 2024

REVIEW: The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / hockey / NetGalley / Sports4 Comments

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CW: Description of stalking and kidnapping Dear Tessa Bailey, I loved Fangirl Down earlier this year and was hoping for a similar experience with the the second book in the Big Shots series, The Au Pair Affair. I was not disappointed. We met Burgess “Sir Savage” Abraham and Tallulah Aydin ... more >

Illustrated cover showing a white man in a hockey jersey holding a white woman in an orange top holding a hockey stick, against the boards, they are smiling at each other. Colours of the cover are blue (ice) and pink (background behind the woman).
July 9, 2024

REVIEW: Body Check by Elle Kennedy

KaetrinBook Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / hockey / NetGalley / re-release / revised and expanded / Sports5 Comments

Dear Elle Kennedy, Body Check was a Harlequin Blaze originally released in 2009. It has been revised, expanded and re-released. Hayden Houston is a Professor of Art History at Berkeley (25 seems young for that but what I do know about the US education system?). Her father is the owner ... more >

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