January 23, 2018

REVIEW: Wedding Bellskis (Holidays with Bellskis #3) by Astrid Amara

SiriusA Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscontemporary m/m romance / Hanukkah / novella3 Comments

Wedding Bellskis (Holidays with the Bellskis book 3) Seth Bellski and Lars Varga have opened their own law firm that specializes in representing the underrepresented–whistleblowers, disadvantaged employees, and those lacking power. The good news is, business is never slow. But that also means they are busy when all Seth really ... more >

January 19, 2018

REVIEW: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

JanineA- Reviews / Recommended ReadsLiterary fiction / love story / Magical Realism / migration / Relationships / war8 Comments

Dear Mr. Hamid, Your acclaimed novel begins this way: IN A CITY SWOLLEN BY REFUGEES but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. For many days. His name was ... more >

January 18, 2018

REVIEW: Bridal Array by Elizabeth Cadell

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1950s / England / family relationships / France / road trip5 Comments

Jessica de Vrais was twenty-two, the only child of an elderly and irritable widower. Though they thought alike on almost all matters, they agreed on none; least of all did they see eye to eye on the subject of men. Jessica, pretty and popular, invited them to come and stay; ... more >

KaetrinReading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsContemporary / Fantasy / Historical / New Adult / novella / Urban-Fantasy / western / YA9 Comments

I read 144 books in 2017 (including audiobooks) and I rated 25 of them (released in 2017) 5 stars on Goodreads. There were 12 audiobooks and 13 print/ebooks in that list. As I don’t review audiobooks here, I’ve confined my DA best of to the print/digital books. Despite lacking reading ... more >

January 16, 2018

REVIEW: All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells

SiriusB Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsnovella / Science Fiction12 Comments

Blurb: A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. “As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.” In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the ... more >

January 11, 2018

Jayne’s Best of 2017

JayneBook Reviews / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists19th century / actor/actress / Agent/Spies/Undercover / American Navy / Art / best of lists / Biography / cats / Civil-War / class differences / Contemporary / England / epistolary / Fly Me to the Moon series / Historical / inspirational romance / Marriage-in-Trouble / murder-investigation / non-fiction / nurse / Regency / turn of the 20th century / Ugly Duckling / Western Romance27 Comments

Yeah, I have 11 books in my top ten list. Math has never been my forte. 2017 was more of a mixed reading year for me with some non-romance, non-fiction books layered in. I was also pleasantly surprised at how many A and B range reads I had. The Second ... more >