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The Future Saints
✮✮✮, General Fiction, Historical Fiction Repy White 2/2/26 ✮✮✮, General Fiction, Historical Fiction Repy White 2/2/26

The Future Saints

This book is the story of The Future Saints, a rock band that has hit a rough patch…

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Broken Country
✮✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 7/21/25 ✮✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 7/21/25

Broken Country

This book basically grabbed me by the lapels…

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Husbands & Lovers
✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 11/25/24 ✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 11/25/24

Husbands & Lovers

This incredible book was on my mind NONSTOP…

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The Sicilian Inheritance
✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 7/1/24 ✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 7/1/24

The Sicilian Inheritance

This book reminded me how much I love historical fiction…

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The Women
✮✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 2/19/24 ✮✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 2/19/24

The Women

Kristen Hannah is a masterful storyteller…

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Still Life
✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 8/26/22 ✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 8/26/22

Still Life

This book is filled with contradictions…

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Woman on Fire
✮✮✮✮✮, Thriller, Historical Fiction Repy White 8/4/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Thriller, Historical Fiction Repy White 8/4/22

Woman on Fire

My favorite read of the year…

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The Nightingale
✮✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 7/29/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 7/29/22

The Nightingale

The best story I’ve read this year…

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Outlawed
✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 6/8/22

Outlawed

The premise of this book was really exciting to me…

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Bringing Down the Duke
✮✮✮✮, Romance, Historical Fiction Repy White 6/7/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance, Historical Fiction Repy White 6/7/22

Bringing Down the Duke

I love this book…

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Malibu Rising
✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 6/2/22 ✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 6/2/22

Malibu Rising

If you asked me what you should read this summer, this is it…

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The Lost Apothecary
✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction, Mystery Repy White 6/1/22 ✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction, Mystery Repy White 6/1/22

The Lost Apothecary

I freaking love this premise…

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The Things We Cannot Say
✮✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 6/1/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 6/1/22

The Things We Cannot Say

This book is incredible…

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Mary Jane
✮✮✮✮, General Fiction, Historical Fiction Repy White 5/26/22 ✮✮✮✮, General Fiction, Historical Fiction Repy White 5/26/22

Mary Jane

What a fun, fun, fun ride…

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Lessons in Chemistry
✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 5/25/22 ✮✮✮✮, Historical Fiction Repy White 5/25/22

Lessons in Chemistry

A true and unequivocal delight…

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⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romance)
This book was funny and cute and exactly what the doctor ordered! A non-cheesy rom-com packed with lots of feelings set in the book world!

We meet Ciara Sheridan when she’s stuck with a serious case of writer’s b
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romantasy) 
Shield of Sparrows Book #2 (trilogy)
WHEW, this book was a whirlwind! Just as many BR&B readers had cautioned, this is a slow burn romantasy, slow burn not in the romantic sense but in the world-building sense. You hav
⭐️⭐️💫(2.5/5, romance)
I so badly wanted to love this, but it was just not for me!

I can totally do a more heavy and emotional romance (see my review for The Best Worst Thing!).

I am fine with a story that’s less of a big romance and more of
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(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

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