May 24, 2019

REVIEW x3: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

KaetrinA- Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / arranged-marriage / autism / Contemporary / immigrant / Vietnam8 Comments

Dear Helen Hoang, I loved The Kiss Quotient last year and was very excited to read your follow up, The Bride Test. Set in the same world as the earlier novel, The Bride Test is a Cinderella story featuring Diep Khai and Tran Ngoc My (who takes the name Esmeralda/Esme ... more >

May 23, 2019

REVIEW: Honorable Exit by Thurston Clarke

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistorical / non-fiction / Vietnam / War / MilitaryNo Comments

A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by ... more >

May 22, 2019

JOINT REVIEW: Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

JanineD Reviews / DNF Reviewscampaign / England / m/m / NA / politics / prince / publicity / Washington DC26 Comments

Sirius and I both read accolades for Casey McQuiston’s debut, Red, White and Royal Blue, an m/m New Adult romance. We decided to review it together. – Janine What happens when America’s First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was ... more >

May 21, 2019

REVIEW: Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris by Victor Canning

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / England / Historical / London / older couple / Paris1 Comments

Book 2 of the classic trilogy of humorous adventures An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm. There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. ... more >

May 20, 2019

REVIEW x 2: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / accountant / arranged-marriage / Asperger's / autism / California / Contemporary / immigrant fiction / matchmakers / Vietnam / waitress11 Comments

Dear Ms. Hoang, As I enjoyed The Kiss Quotient, I was eager to read your follow-up contemporary romance, The Bride Test (It is not necessary to read The Kiss Quotient first; The Bride Test stands on its own).

May 17, 2019

REVIEW: Skin and Bone (Digging up Bones #2) by TA Moore

SiriusB Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsm/m suspense / mystery11 Comments

Cloister Witte and his K-9 partner, Bourneville, find the lost and bring them home. But the job doesn’t always end there. Janet Morrow, a young trans woman, lies in a coma after wandering away from her car during a storm. But just because Cloister found the young tourist doesn’t mean ... more >