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April 5, 2017

What Janine is Reading (and Seeing at the Theater) in Late Winter 2017

JanineB+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C- ReviewsReading lists10 Comments

Unforgiven by Mary Balogh Recently I reread Balogh’s 1997 release, Indiscreet, and found that it still works for me. Since I’d never read the other two books in the Four Horsemen trilogy and they had all been recently reissued, I then decided to move on to book two, Unforgiven. Unforgiven ... more >

March 29, 2017

What Janine is Reading in Midwinter 2017

JanineBook Reviews / Need A Rec! / Reading Lists / Recommended Readshistorical romance / Reading lists / YA fantasy12 Comments

Recommended Read

Perhaps this post should be titled What Janine is Rereading, since the books mentioned below are all books I’ve read before. Indiscreet by Mary Balogh This was my third time reading Indiscreet. I first read it in the early 2000s because it was recommended by a number of people in ... more >

February 8, 2017

JOINT REVIEW: Someone To Hold by Mary Balogh

KaetrinB- Reviews / C+ ReviewsArtist / Bath / historical romance / joint review / Regency England / reversal of fortune / teacher3 Comments

Kaetrin: Janine and I enjoyed reviewing Someone To Love together last year – we decided we’d do it again for book 2 of the Westcott series. The former Lady Camille Westcott is hiding out in Bath with her grandmother and younger sister. In Someone to Love, it was revealed that ... more >

January 20, 2017

What Janine is Reading (and Seeing at the Theater) in Late 2016

JanineBook Reviews / Reading ListsChristmas / Contemporary / erotica romance / Movies / novellas / Reading lists / regency era26 Comments

So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon Kayla Davis is out of work and almost out of money when Adler, her roommate and BFF, tells her about an internet dating service that matches attractive women with wealthy men who are willing to help them financially. Though her first instinct is to say ... more >

November 7, 2016

JOINT REVIEW: Someone to Love by Mary Balogh

JanineB Reviews / B+ ReviewsDuke / family-reunion / Historical / joint review / long lost heiress / martial arts / orphans / Regency / reversal of fortune13 Comments

Back in August, after Someone to Love came up on Twitter, Kaetrin and I decided to review it together. -Janine Janine: Someone to Love, Mary Balogh’s latest historical romance, launches a new and intriguing series. The novel begins with a meeting between Mr. Brumford, solicitor to the late Earl of ... more >

February 18, 2016

REVIEW: An Unlikely Duchess by Mary Balogh

JanineC Reviews / C+ Reviewsarranged-marriage / Duke / historical romance / mistaken-identity / romantic comedy / Traditional Regency19 Comments

Trigger warning: ableist language Dear Ms. Balogh, By my count I’ve read some twenty-five of your traditional regencies, those slim volumes published by Signet between 1985 and 1998. By now, I thought I knew what to expect from those books: fascinating character studies powered by psychological acuity and emotionally charged ... more >

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