JennieB Reviews / Book ReviewsBritish Monarchy / Jack the Ripper / Mystery series / Veronica Speedwell / Victorian4 Comments

Dear Ms. Raybourn: This is the fifth book in the Veronica Speedwell mystery series; I’ve read and reviewed the first four books. Big spoilers for the series appear below, so be forewarned. Veronica and her partner in crime (-solving) and love interest Stoker are recovering, physically and emotionally, from the ... more >

JayneMiscBooks / digital library6 Comments

Welcome to Open Library   I got an email today about the Open Library. They are now suspending all wait lists and increasing the amount of loans to 10 at a time. This is available worldwide. To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, ... more >

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF Reviewscrossword puzzle / England / Japanese culture / Manga / murder-investigation / non-fiction / police / Scotland / war9 Comments

The Fox & the Little Tanuki, Vol. 1 by Mi Tagawa Long ago, the gods granted a few special animals great powers… but not all those animals used their magical abilities for good! Senzou the Fox Spirit in particular grew too brash and arrogant, abusing his strength until the gods ... more >

SiriusB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsBDSM / contemporary m/m romance / pony play1 Comments

Dear Lyn Gala, I have read the vast majority of your published works and I did come to expect BDSM in some way, shape or form to feature in your contemporary works. So I was not as surprised by BDSM in this book per se, as I was surprised by ... more >

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewsboss/secretary / Contemporary / Disabled Heroine / Marriage-in-Trouble / road-romance / secrets / workplace-romance4 Comments

… a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own. Carey Duncan has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, ... more >

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / accountant / Contemporary / dating / First-Person / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / New York CityNo Comments

Orthodox Jew Adina Reid isn’t having much luck in the dating department. Whether tracking mud into a guy’s car or tripping over her feet, she can’t seem to get past a second date. As if that’s not bad enough, she accidentally spills grape soda on her coworker, Yehoshua Markus. Horrified, ... more >

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsastronauts / Reality-TV / YA gay romance4 Comments

As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media ... more >

JennieBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary romance / hockey / pro athlete / Series / stalkers / trauma / yoga2 Comments

Dear Kelly Jamieson: This is the fourth book in the Wynn Hockey series, a fact I was unaware of when I started reading it. I read the first two books, and when I saw that For the Win was available for review, I snapped it up. It was only after ... more >

JanineBook Reviews / C+ Reviewsepilepsy / historical romance / loneliness / medium / secret / tortured hero / viscount2 Comments

Dear Joanna Lowell, Your Victorian-era historical romance, Dark Season, came to my attention via this article in Publishers Weekly. The article mentioned that you are a professor who writes literary fiction under the name Joanna Ruocco, and that you have received the prestigious Pushcart Prize. This, in addition to the ... more >

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