January 24, 2020

REVIEW: A Capitol Death by Lindsey Davis

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviewsancient-Rome / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Historical / murder mystery / murder-investigation / Private-investigatorNo Comments

In Rome, ruled by the erratic Emperor Domitian, Flavia Albia is dragged into the worst sort of investigation—a politically charged murder—in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, A Capitol Death. A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum in the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome. ... more >

January 22, 2020

REVIEW: Nottingham: The True Story of Robyn Hood by Anna Burke

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviewsbisexual / England / Historical / lesbian romance / LGBTQ community / LGBTQ romance / transgender character3 Comments

Robyn Hood didn’t set out to rob the rich, but in Nottingham, nothing ever seems to go according to plan. After a fateful hunting accident sends her on the run from the law, Robyn finds herself deep in the heart of Sherwood Forest. All she really wants to do is ... more >

January 21, 2020

REVIEW: The Best Man Problem by Mariah Ankenman

JayneBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / Denver / female friendship / Friends / one night stand / Wedding PlannerNo Comments

Lilly Walsh is used to keeping things buttoned-up and aboveboard. After all, the last time she hooked up with someone in a wedding party, it nearly cost her her wedding planning business. Thankfully, those rules don’t apply when she meets a handsome stranger in a hotel bar. One bad pirate ... more >

January 17, 2020

REVIEW: The Peculiar Folly of Long Legged Meg by Jayne Fresina

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / England / family relationships / gardening / hidden identity / Historical / servant romance / social climbing / virgin hero / working classNo Comments

Persephone “Persey” Foyle, the Dowager Marchioness of Holbrooke, leads a happy, busy existence, tending her garden, overseeing her charitable missions, feuding with her stepson’s wife, and vetting potential suitors for her stepdaughter. As far as this lively widow is concerned, her life lacks nothing. But when a young, famously-talented designer ... more >

January 16, 2020

REVIEW: Watch the Wall, My Darling by Jane Aiken Hodge

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / dysfunctional family / England / estranged family / Gothic / Historical / Regency / Smugglers9 Comments

Only a deathbed promise to her dying father could force Christina Tretton to travel to Tretteign Grange, the ‘Dark House’, and meet her estranged family for the first time. Having to fast-talk her way out of an encounter with smugglers on the way is only the beginning. Waiting for her ... more >

January 13, 2020

REVIEW: Kissing Adrien by Siri Mitchell

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewschildhood friends / Contemporary / First-Person / France / friends-to-lovers / Paris / self discoveryNo Comments

Claire Le Noyer, 29, wants a do-over. She wants the life where she majors in history, not accounting. Where she takes two-hour lunches, not ten minutes in front of her computer. Where her pastor boyfriend treats her like an attractive women he’s deeply in love with, not like a nice ... more >