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Eight Hundred Grapes
✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮, Fiction Repy White 5/24/22

Eight Hundred Grapes

The perfect book to kick off fall…

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The Only Plane in the Sky
✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/24/22

The Only Plane in the Sky

This book is an incredible way to remember the horrific events of September 11…

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The Night Swim
✮✮✮✮, Thriller Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮, Thriller Repy White 5/24/22

The Night Swim

An unputdownable thriller…

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American Royals
✮✮✮✮, YA Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮, YA Repy White 5/24/22

American Royals

What if America had a royal family…

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Then She Was Gone
✮✮✮✮, Thriller Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮, Thriller Repy White 5/24/22

Then She Was Gone

A dark, disturbing, and suspenseful thriller…

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The Flatshare
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/24/22

The Flatshare

Tiffy and Leon are flatmates who share a bed but have never met…

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My Sister the Serial Killer
✮✮✮, Thriller Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮, Thriller Repy White 5/24/22

My Sister the Serial Killer

Clever, dark, with a dash of humor…

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The Hating Game
✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/24/22

The Hating Game

Steamy beach reads DO NOT get better than this…

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One Day in December
✮✮✮✮, Holiday Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮, Holiday Repy White 5/24/22

One Day in December

Do you believe in love at first sight…

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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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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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Good Girl Complex
✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Good Girl Complex

I love a guilty pleasure romance…

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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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The Homewreckers
✮✮✮, Cozy Mystery Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮, Cozy Mystery Repy White 5/23/22

The Homewreckers

This is such a quintessential beach read…

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28 Summers
✮✮✮✮, General Fiction Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮✮, General Fiction Repy White 5/23/22

28 Summers

Elin Hilderbrand is one of my favorite authors…

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Breathless
✮✮✮, Thriller, Mystery Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮, Thriller, Mystery Repy White 5/23/22

Breathless

One way to cool yourself down on a hot summer day…

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Every Summer After
✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Every Summer After

This sweet story was the perfect kick-off to summer…

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Island Affair
✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22 ✮✮✮, Romance Repy White 5/23/22

Island Affair

This book was a fun little romp around Key West…

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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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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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⭐️⭐️💫(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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