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March 5, 2023

Open Thread for Readers for March 2023

JanineOpen ThreadOpen Thread25 Comments

Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post about it here!

March 3, 2023

Jayne’s Latest Reading List

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / Reading Lists3 Comments

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn Longtime personal assistant Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie must confront an uncomfortable truth: her own wants and needs ... more >

March 2, 2023

REVIEW: OCME: Life in America’s Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / D ReviewsBaltimore / corruption / death / Doctor / First-Person / forensics / Memoir / non-fiction / police brutality3 Comments

Perfect for fans of Michael Lewis and David Simon (Homicide, The Corner, The Wire, We Own This City) Real life is different from what gets depicted on procedural crime dramas. Equipped with a journalist’s eye, a paramedic’s experience and a sardonic wit, Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland’s Office ... more >

March 1, 2023

JOINT REVIEW: The Eidolon by K.D. Edwards

JanineB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsAce / Captivity / children / clairvoyant / joint review / K.D. Edwards / kidnapping / LGBTQIAP+ / Magic / Magnus Academy / The Tarot Sequence / UF / Urban-Fantasy3 Comments

Janine: Sirius introduced me to K.D. Edwards’ Tarot Sequence series, which we both love, and we decided to review his new spinoff novella, The Eidolon, together. We’ll begin with the blurb: In the epic conclusion to K.D. Edwards’ first blockbuster trilogy in The Tarot Sequence series, readers followed Rune on ... more >

February 28, 2023

REVIEW: Silk and Stone by Dinah Dean

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads12th century / Anglo-Saxon / class differences / England / Historical / Historical fiction / medieval / needlework / Norman Conquest / religion / self discovery / stone mason2 Comments

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Sometimes the miracles you were praying for were there all along… Norman-born Elys de Wix fills her time with embroidery on the long pilgrimage to Rome to pray for healing of brother’s injury. She never thought much of it, until their new traveling companion, Saxon master-mason Aylwin, admires her skill. ... more >

February 27, 2023

REVIEW: Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsarchaeologist / archeology / colonialism / Egypt / engineer / France / museum / museum exhibits / non-fiction / Paris / politics / World War IINo Comments

The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against ... more >

February 24, 2023

What Janine is Reading, December 2022: Two Contemporary Romances

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Contemporary romance / enemies to lovers / free spirit / Friends with benefits / grief / Reading lists / unplanned-pregnancy / unrequited-love7 Comments

The Devil Gets His Due by Elizabeth O’Roark This is the fourth book in O’Roark’s Devils series. Graham and Keeley are stuck planning the wedding reception for Ben (Graham’s brother) and Gemma (Keeley’s best friend) from The Devil You Know together. Keeley, who narrates this section (the book is written ... more >

February 23, 2023

Review: All Souls Near and Nigh (Soulbound #2) by Hailey Turner

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsm/m fantasy / Urban-Fantasy / vampires / werewolves2 Comments

Special Agent Patrick Collins has been reassigned by the Supernatural Operations Agency to New York City. Navigating his new relationship with Jonothon de Vere, the werewolf he’s now soulbound to, is nothing compared to dealing with territorial disputes between the vampires and werecreatures who call the five boroughs home. But ... more >

February 22, 2023

REVIEW: Artfully Yours by Joanna Lowell

LaylaA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsArt / baker / critic / forgery / Historical / Late Victorian / working class9 Comments

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Dear Joanna Lowell, In 2020, Janine reviewed your debut novel under the Joanna Lowell pen name, Dark Season. Janine and I also reviewed last year’s The Runaway Duchess your 2021 book, The Duke Undone. I was excited to see that you had a new book out and jumped at opportunity ... more >

February 21, 2023

REVIEW: The Best Man’s Problem by Sera Taíno

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsbisexual hero / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / family relationships / gay hero / Haitian-American / LGBTQIA characters / LGBTQIA romance / LGBTQIAP+ / New York City / opposites attract / POC / POC author / Puerto Rican / siblings / wedding2 Comments

He can’t forget the kiss he shared with the best man. But is he the best man for him? His sister’s wedding isn’t the ideal place for Rafael Navarro to reconnect with the man he kissed in a moment of reckless abandon. But it’s impossible to avoid best man Étienne ... more >

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