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Any Trope but You
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 1/21/26 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 1/21/26

Any Trope but You

Sweet, swoony, and snowy…

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Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 12/23/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 12/23/25

Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal

Tropes: Small Town & Enemies to Lovers

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All Rhodes Lead Here
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 4/22/25 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 4/22/25

All Rhodes Lead Here

I love a good slow burn…

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Beg, Borrow, Or Steal
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 4/21/25 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 4/21/25

Beg, Borrow, Or Steal

Sarah Adams just knows how to write a sweet & swoony story…

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Practice Makes Perfect
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/11/23 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/11/23

Practice Makes Perfect

This is just an incredibly sweet romance that left me a bit glowy…

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Things We Hide From The Light
✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 3/16/23 ✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 3/16/23

Things We Hide From The Light

I have a soft spot for this town and loooove the friend group…

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Secretly Yours
✮✮, Romance Repy White 2/19/23 ✮✮, Romance Repy White 2/19/23

Secretly Yours

I am a HUGE Tessa Bailey fan…

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The Tourist Attraction
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/8/22

The Tourist Attraction

My heart has grown five sizes too big after this book…

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Jingle Wars
✮✮✮, Holiday Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮, Holiday Repy White 6/8/22

Jingle Wars

This book is definitely 💫 BeachReadsandBubbly after Dark 💫 …

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The Simple Wild
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/1/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/1/22

The Simple Wild

My sister insisted I read this book…

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Enjoy the View
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/1/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 6/1/22

Enjoy the View

This book made me want to get outside & find a mountain man to fall in love with…

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A Season for Second Chances
✮✮✮, Holiday Repy White 6/1/22 ✮✮✮, Holiday Repy White 6/1/22

A Season for Second Chances

This is a cozy, charming, rambling story of love…

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Part of Your World
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Part of Your World

This is a love story that I smiled my way through…

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Archer’s Voice
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Archer’s Voice

This book is beloved by so many…

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Things We Never Got Over
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Things We Never Got Over

Things I’ll never get over…

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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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