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October 4, 2023

REVIEW: Surely You Can’t Be Serious : The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsFilm / film industry / filmmaking / Movie / non-fictionNo Comments

An in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980’s comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude ... more >

September 29, 2023

Review: The Master of Samar by Melissa Scott

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book ReviewsFantasy / historical mystery / m/m fantasy3 Comments

Rejected by his aristocratic family, Gil Irichels has been content to make his living as a traveling cursebreaker, working with his lover, the feral mage Envar Cassi, and their bodyguard, swordswoman Arak min’Aroi. After a series of deaths leave him the sole heir to the family’s house and fortune, Irichels’s ... more >

September 28, 2023

REVIEW: The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsFantasy / Historical / investigation / Magic / married couple / mystery / social critique / social issues2 Comments

The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade ... more >

September 25, 2023

REVIEW: Return to Embthwaite Farm (The Mowbray Sisters Book 1) by Kate Hewitt

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewschildhood friends / Contemporary / family relationships / fathers and daughters / friends-to-lovers / self discovery / sisters / The Mowbray Sisters / YorkshireNo Comments

Welcome to Embthwaite Farm, a charming English home in North Yorkshire, belonging to the fractured Mowbray family… When Rachel Mowbray left behind her family farm in North Yorkshire at eighteen, she never planned on returning. But when her ex-childhood sweetheart calls and insists she return due to her father’s declining ... more >

September 22, 2023

REVIEW: Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsCult / dysfunctional family / family relationships / fathers and daughters / First-Person / horror / mothers and daughters / religion / secret / secret society / self discovery / toxic relationship3 Comments

Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep. Inside is an invitation ... more >

September 21, 2023

REVIEW: Rumaysa: A Fairytale by Radiya Hafiza

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C ReviewsCinderella story / fairy tale / fairy tale retelling / Magic / middle grade / Muslim / POC / POC author / Rapunzel / Sleeping Beauty / witchNo Comments

Step into a Once Upon a Time where anything is possible . . . Radiya Hafiza’s enchanting and funny debut weaves together three stories, spinning the classic fairytale to show that anyone can be a hero. ‘Rumaysa, Rumaysa, let down your hijab!’ For as long as she can remember Rumaysa ... more >

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