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It Starts with Us
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 11/3/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 11/3/22

It Starts with Us

The highly anticipated sequel to It Ends With Us…

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November 9
✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 8/26/22 ✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 8/26/22

November 9

I found this to be a quick and engrossing read…

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Verity
✮✮✮✮✮, Thriller Repy White 6/9/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Thriller Repy White 6/9/22

Verity

This book will live rent free in my head forever…

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It Ends with Us
✮✮✮✮, General Fiction Repy White 6/1/22 ✮✮✮✮, General Fiction Repy White 6/1/22

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover is her own genre…

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Reminders of Him
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Reminders of Him

This book covers grief, motherhood, love, loss, forgiveness…

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⭐️⭐️💫(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
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (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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