KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1860s / activism / feminism / health care / Historical Biography / mental illness / non-fiction3 Comments

Dear Kate Moore, I listened to your first book, The Radium Girls back in 2018 and was enthralled by it. (It’s a fantastic book but hard to hear because of the infuriating and tragic content.) So when I saw you had a new book coming out I snapped it up.  ... more >

JennieB Reviews / Book ReviewsParanormal / POC author / psy / Psy-Changeling Trinity Series6 Comments

Jennie: A few statistics – Number of Psy/Changeling novels including the Trinity series: 20 Number of Psy/Changeling Trinity books: 5 Number of books in the series Janine and I have reviewed together: 9 including this one Chapter 1 of Last Guard opens with our heroine, Payal Rao, being described as ... more >

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsastronauts / immigrants / inventors / NASA / non-fiction / science / space flight2 Comments

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and ... more >

JanineA Reviews / A- Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category#ownvoices / amateur sleuths / book clubs / Brooklyn / childhood friends / children / civil rights / families / female friendship / Historical / India / Japanese-American history / Kentucky / librarians / Los Angeles / Memoir / mystery / POC / POC author / Reading lists / South Carolina / Womens-Fiction / YA10 Comments

I run a virtual book club for seniors, volunteering for a non-profit (check it out and see if you’d like to help, or consider participating in the national village movement closer to your home), and we take turns picking out the books we read. One of the advantages this has ... more >

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Asian heroine / baby (non secret) / epistolary / First-Person / infidelity / London / novella / POC / POC author / South-Asian / Writer11 Comments

For writer Jade Yeo, the Roaring Twenties are coming in with more of a purr. She’s perfectly happy making a living by churning out articles on what the well-dressed woman is wearing. But when she pillories one of London’s leading literary luminaries in a scathing review, she may have made ... more >

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / friendship / picture booksNo Comments

“There’s a magic that’s yours, and it’s like nothing else. It’s something you share just by being yourself. It’s hard to define, but I know that it’s real. It’s something my head and my heart simply feel.” This is a book for a friend you appreciate, one who matters more ... more >

JayneMiscadoption / animals / cats / children / dog / Military3 Comments

Truffles the Kitty Four years ago Danielle Crull rescued a kitten in the woods. She didn’t realize she’d just found a new employee – one who is routinely named “Employee of the Month” (every month) at the children’s eye center that Crull owns. Truffles, now famous for her glamorous glasses ... more >

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsBlackmail / Contemporary / domestic violence / police / policeman / security / West Virginia7 Comments

Ramsey Masters is the Ridge Outlet Theft Prevention Specialist, that is, she spends her days stopping shoplifters. While catching someone stuffing a PS4 controller into their pants or a ham into their handbag is more amusing than it is dangerous, the type of work isn’t what drew Ramsey to the ... more >

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewscats / Dark / Friends / macabre / middle grade / mystery / POC / The Zombert ChroniclesNo Comments

A second meaty serving of the ZomBert Chronicles offers a suspenseful treat for animal lovers and fans of spooky mysteries. ZomBert is back in book two of a wry new mystery series by award-winning creators Kara LaReau and Ryan Andrews. A stray cat who escaped the YummCo Laboratories on the ... more >

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsfemale friendship / Paranormal / women12 Comments

Every woman goes through changes in their forties. Just not… these changes. Robin Brannon was a normal wife, mom, and antique shop owner until a brush with death turned her day-to-day life upside down. Now she and her two best friends are seeing things that belong in a fantasy novel. ... more >