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Great Big Beautiful Life
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/5/25 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/5/25

Great Big Beautiful Life

I found this story to be a slow burn…

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Funny Story
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24

Funny Story

I went into this story with sky-high expectations…

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Happy Place
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/12/23 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/12/23

Happy Place

Emily Henry could write a trigonometry textbook & it would be the best thing I’ve read this year…

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People We Meet On Vacation
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/7/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/7/22

People We Meet On Vacation

If I met this book on vacation, I’d buy it a drink…

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Book Lovers
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Book Lovers

Just skip my review and buy this book…

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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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