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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 >

January 2, 2023

What Janine is Reading: 2022 YA Fantasies

JanineB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews / D Reviews / DNF Reviews#ownvoices / Arctic / death / families / journey / moral ambiguity / poison / Reading lists / shipboard / spy / survival / Time-Travel / YA fantasy / Young-Adult5 Comments

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len This YA fantasy novel, Vanessa Len’s debut, was recommended highly by two people I trust, so I stuck with it even though it had a slow and seemingly pedestrian beginning. When Joan, a British East Asian girl, is little, her grandmother tells her that ... more >

October 28, 2022

Review: Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy #1) by Emily Skrutskie

SiriusBook Reviews / D Reviewsclassic space opera / m/m romance / SFF6 Comments

A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend–the man he trusts most and might even love–only to learn that he’s secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. Ettian Nassun’s life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded. He’s spent seven years putting himself back together under ... more >

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June 27, 2022

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JayneBook Reviews / C- Reviews / D Reviews / DNF Reviewschildhood friends / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / friends-to-lovers / Historical / London / Regency / twins5 Comments

The Season that changes everything … Henrietta Gaydon is making her debut in London society for the Season, but her popularity and apparent ease disguises the fact that she is out of her depth and that she dreads the objective of finding a husband. She longs for home, her father ... more >

April 13, 2022

REVIEW: Easter Promises: An Historical Anthology by Clare Griffin, Nancy Cunningham, Ava January, and Sarah Fiddelaers

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / D Reviews1910s / 1920s / 1940s / actress / Anthology / art thief / Australia / Australian / Doctor / Easter / female pilots / France / Historical / Holiday / Hollywood / nurse / World War I2 Comments

This anthology sounded interesting but despite the title, there was very little faith involved.     Four remarkable women. Four unforgettable stories of hope, courage, faith and love. Australia, 1912 Minnie Wyndam loves her beautiful island home, her fabulous clothes and her childhood friend Eric. But while Minnie is busy ... more >

December 29, 2021

What Janine is Reading: Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series, Part I

JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews / D Reviews / DNF ReviewsCanada / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / enemies with benefits / Game Changers series / hockey players / hockey rivalry / LGBTQIAP+ / m/m / New York City / Out for You / Reading lists / Russia / Russian / star-crossed lovers / Toronto / values conflict25 Comments

Earlier in the year I read (or in one case, tried to read) the first three books in Rachel Reid’s m/m contemporary romance series, Game Changers, which follows queer NHL players as they fall in love and have to deal with the conflict presented by the heteronormative culture of the ... more >

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