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Elizabeth of East Hampton
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 10/15/25 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 10/15/25

Elizabeth of East Hampton

I found this modern-day Pride and Prejudice retelling to be totally delightful…

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The Favorites
✮✮✮✮, General Fiction Repy White 4/22/25 ✮✮✮✮, General Fiction Repy White 4/22/25

The Favorites

Fans of TJR, rejoice…

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Tangled Up In You
✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/22/24 ✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/22/24

Tangled Up In You

This is a modern retelling of Disney’s Tangled…

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Emma of 83rd Street
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 7/1/24

Emma of 83rd Street

This book was purely delightful and fun to read…

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Never
✮✮, Fantasy, Romance Repy White 2/19/24 ✮✮, Fantasy, Romance Repy White 2/19/24

Never

Jessa Hasting’s books are just incredibly polarizing…

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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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