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About Jennie

has been an avid if often frustrated romance reader for the past 15 years. In that time she's read a lot of good romances, a few great ones, and, unfortunately, a whole lot of dreck. Many of her favorite authors (Ivory, Kinsale, Gaffney, Williamson,
Ibbotson) have moved onto other genres or produce new books only rarely, so she's had to expand her horizons a bit. Newer authors she enjoys include Julie Ann Long, Megan Hart and J.R. Ward, and she eagerly anticipates each new Sookie Stackhouse novel. Strong prose and characterization go a long way with her, though if they are combined with an unusual plot or setting, all the better. When she's not reading romance she can usually be found reading historical non-fiction.

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May 16, 2022

Jennie’s Reading List for January through March 2022

JennieBook ReviewsContemporary / historical romance / New Adult / Reading lists / Series / Thriller/Suspense21 Comments

I’ve been doing quarterly “what I’ve been reading” posts pretty faithfully for a while now. Usually I have close to ten books on the list, but for various reasons I haven’t been reading much, and so I only have three to review (I also reviewed two books with Janine – ... more >

April 18, 2022

REVIEW: The No-Show by Beth O’Leary

JennieB Reviews / Book Reviewschick-lit / Contemporary / Humor33 Comments

The No-Show by Beth O’Leary Blurb Time: Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense ... more >

March 25, 2022

DUELING REVIEW: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

JennieB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / Asian Americans / California / death / Fantasy / grief / Japan / joint review / Literary Fabulism / near-future / Novel-in-Stories / Pandemic / POC / POC author / Speculative-Fiction9 Comments

Content warnings: Jennie: When Janine suggested we review this book together, I hadn’t heard of it. But the blurb told me it was dystopian, and I have a weakness for dystopian novels even though they don’t always end up working for me. Though it’s billed as a novel, How High ... more >

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March 9, 2022

Reading List by Jennie for October 2021 through December 2021

JennieBook ReviewsComedy / horror / Memoir / mystery / Reading lists / Suspense10 Comments

The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins This was the first of my two short Halloween reads. Like most of my Halloween reads, it wasn’t particularly scary. The story opens with the Countess Narona visiting a doctor in London, and recounting a strange story about her meeting her fiance’s jilted lover. ... more >

February 23, 2022

REVIEW: The Legacy by Elle Kennedy

JennieB+ Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary romance / hockey players / New Adult / novellas5 Comments

The Legacy is a quartet of related stories that catches the reader up with the couples in the Briar U Off-Campus series three years after most of them have graduated. The blurb… “A wedding. A proposal. An elopement. And a surprise pregnancy.” …pretty much covers the central plots of each ... more >

February 15, 2022

REVIEW: A Perfect Equation by Elizabeth Everett

JennieB Reviews / Book Reviewsenemies to lovers / English historical romance / Scientist10 Comments

Dear Elizabeth Everett: I came across this book somewhere and, intrigued by the premise, snapped it up, before realizing it’s the second in a series (The Secret Scientists of London). Luckily, I’m not a stickler for reading in order. Letty Fenley and Lord William Hughes, the Viscount Greycliff (known as ... more >

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