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November 11, 2020

REVIEW: Reasonable Doubt by Gregory Ashe

JanineB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / friends-to-lovers / friendship / LGBTQ / m/m romantic elements / Missouri / mystery / police procedural / Small-Town9 Comments

Please note: If you think this series might be of interest to you may want to avoid this review—it’s full of spoilers for books one through four. Start with my review of Pretty Pretty Boys, book one in the series, instead. Trigger warnings: Content warning: Dear Gregory Ashe, Your gay ... more >

October 30, 2020

REVIEW: Guilt by Association by Gregory Ashe

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / friends-to-lovers / friendship / LGBTQ / m/m romantic elements / Missouri / mystery / police procedural / Small-Town5 Comments

Please note: If you think this series might be of interest to you may wish to avoid this review—it’s full of spoilers for books one through three. Start with my review of Pretty Pretty Boys, book one in the series, instead. Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, I got hooked on ... more >

October 29, 2020

REVIEW: Kindred – Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsarcheology / History / non-fiction / paleontology / scienceNo Comments

In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. ... more >

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October 27, 2020

REVIEW: Their Christmas Baby Contract by Shannon Stacey

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book Reviewsbaby / bad sex / Christmas / Contemporary / fake relationship / friends-to-lovers / NetGalleyNo Comments

Dear Shannon Stacey, There are very few romance books where the main characters have bad sex but I appreciate every single one I’ve read. It helps balance the scale a little with all the simultaneous orgasms zinging about in Romancelandia.  In the case of Reyna Bishop and Brady Nash, their ... more >

October 22, 2020

REVIEW: The Domestic Revolution : How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything by Ruth Goodman

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsBritain / Europe / History / non-fiction / social change6 Comments

“The queen of living history” (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution—from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was ... more >

October 1, 2020

REVIEW: The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Lizzie Shane

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / dogs / self discovery / Single Parent / Small Town Romance / VermontNo Comments

A delightful holiday romance about a small-town single dad and an animal rescue owner as they try to find forever homes for a dozen lovable pups before Christmas. Pine Hollow has everything Ally Gilmore could wish for in a holiday break: gently falling snow in a charming small town and ... more >

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