Reviews for Caterina's Renaissance

As of today, these all appear on Amazon. Blogger's doing funny things with the screenshots I've been trying to upload, so I'm just going to copy and paste the text of them here.

The latest one made me laugh in my tea. :)

Thank you to these reviewers for keeping me going. As soon as I post these, I'm going to spend some time working on Blodwyn's Redemption, because several of you said you're eager to see the next one! So I'd better get cracking!

Thank you,

Christa


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