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Once and Again
✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 4/17/26 ✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 4/17/26

Once and Again

I just love the way Rebecca Serle tells a story…

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Into the Blue
✮✮✮✮, Romance, Fiction Repy White 4/1/26 ✮✮✮✮, Romance, Fiction Repy White 4/1/26

Into the Blue

This book had me running the full gamut of emotions…

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The Academy
Fiction, ✮✮✮✮, General Fiction Repy White 10/15/25 Fiction, ✮✮✮✮, General Fiction Repy White 10/15/25

The Academy

I love an academic setting…

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Far and Away
✮✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 10/15/25 ✮✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 10/15/25

Far and Away

This book is a complete and utter delight…

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Atmosphere
✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 7/21/25 ✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 7/21/25

Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid can always deliver a gut punch…

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Eight Hundred Grapes
✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 5/24/22

Eight Hundred Grapes

The perfect book to kick off fall…

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romance)

This romance really took me by surprise! Great banter, deeply emotional, and well written. A romance that feels very real. Not a rom-com, definitely a “rom-dram”.

Our leading woman, Nicole Speyer, has been struggl
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(5/5, fiction)

I was just totally gobsmacked by this book! Brilliant, biting, and impossible to look away from. This is not a light and fluffy read! It had me running the full gamut of emotion. Rage & stress were the emotional frontrun
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5, fiction) 

I just love the way Rebecca Serle tells a story!
This is the story of the decisions we make and how they shape our lives, a story of love and loss and connection, and of mothers and daughters.

Lauren has known her entire li
The results are in for our 2026 Romance Novel March Madness!

At the end of 2025, I polled BR&B readers on their favorite books of the year. I took the top 60 romance responses, sprinkled in some newer releases, and voilà…. those bo
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, mystery)
Mabel lives on a quiet street, and if you asked any of her neighbors, she’s your typical 80-year-old woman. She’s a little crabby, a bit in everyone’s business, and she appreciates a cup of tea. No one would s

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