B- Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / children's book / picture books2 Comments
Doris the gharial crocodile has her motherly hands full with twenty-six misbehaved hatchlings. Follow along on a journey through the alphabet as she tries to bring peace back into her home. An amusing book about a crocodile and her cheeky hatchlings, whose names all start with a specific letter of ... more >
B Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsfamily-reunion / Friends of the Westcotts / hero in pursuit / Historical / joint review / NetGalley / Regency / traumatic-past7 Comments
Janine: Kaetrin and I have been reviewing Mary Balogh since her Westcott series of historical romances began eight books ago and this review continues the tradition. Someone Perfect is Westcott-adjacent and the start of Balogh’s “Friends of the Westcotts” series; its heroine, Lady Estelle Lamarr, is Viola Westcott’s stepdaughter. Estelle ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsactress / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Firefighter / Hanukkah / Holiday / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Missouri / Orchard Hill series / self discovery4 Comments
When Ellie Bloom’s life literally goes up in flames after an apartment fire, she slinks back to her sister’s house in the St. Louis suburb she’s avoided since her mom died. Ellie quickly caves to her nephews’ pleas to direct the temple Hanukkah play—her mom’s pride and joy—and by the ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsAsian hero / Asian heroine / biracial hero / Canada / Holiday / Holidays with the Wongs / matchmakers / novella / POC / POC author / Toronto6 Comments
A Thanksgiving rom-com with lots of food and interfering family! Advertising executive Nick Wong enjoys living in Toronto. He loves late nights partying and taking women back to his penthouse. And so it is with great reluctance that he returns to his boring hometown of Mosquito Bay for Thanksgiving. This ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsfamily relationships / misunderstanding / novella / protection / Regency / Widowed Heroine2 Comments
Marigold Kinderley’s uncle kept her wrapped in cotton wool. So Lady Sylvia found a way to take Marigold home with her for summer break. When Terence Kinderley discovered Marigold missing, he assumed she had fled to the border with the dancing master. Sylvia’s mother Alicia discovered the deception. Though Alicia ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsanthropology / colonization / fantasy/scifi / novella / science / sorcerer / space flight2 Comments
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the ... more >