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September 21, 2020

REVIEW: Transposition by Gregory Ashe

JanineC- Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / LGBTQ / locked room mystery / Missouri / mystery / police procedural / romantic-elements2 Comments

Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, Recently I finished Pretty Pretty Boys, the first novel in your Hazard and Somerset series. While it wasn’t a keeper for me, the slow, slow burn relationship between the main characters and their explosive chemistry sucked me in, and I knew when I finished that ... more >

September 18, 2020

REVIEW: Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

JanineBook Reviews / C Reviews / C- Reviews#ownvoices / abuse / Black heroine / coming-of-age / high-school / POC / POC author / rock stars / singer / YANo Comments

Trigger warnings: Dear Tiffany D. Jackson, A couple of months ago I read and reviewed your YA novel, Monday’s Not Coming, and was impressed. The book had a powerful mystery at its center, a disappearance of a teenager noticed only by her best friend. Even before I read it, I ... more >

September 16, 2020

Review: Reading List by Sirius

SiriusB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews / C- Reviewscontemporary gay romance / cozy m/m mystery / Fantasy / LGBTQA / YA9 Comments

1 A Novel Murder (MerryChurch Mysteries #3) by KC Wells This is book three in a series of cozy mysteries with sprinkles of m/m romance. I found it just as lovely and enjoyable as the first two books. There is really no personal conflict between Mike and Jonathon in this book. ... more >

September 2, 2020

REVIEW: The Last Snowfall by Kathleen Gilles Seidel

JanineBook Reviews / C- Reviewsclass differences / Contemporary / dogs / Romance / snowboarder / veterinarian / West Virginia5 Comments

Dear Readers, Kathleen Gilles Seidel was once one of my favorite romance authors. After a long hiatus, she returned to the romance genre last year with Stand Tall, a trilogy about three Olympic snowboarders who are friends. I liked the first book in the series, The Fourth Summer, not so ... more >

Dark-haired Regency woman in rose pink with a pink half mask and pink domino in a large mansion-type room
August 26, 2020

DUELING REVIEW: Someone to Romance by Mary Balogh

JanineA- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C- Reviews / Recommended Readsaristocrats / courtship / Earl / hero with a past / hidden identity / historical romance / inheritance / joint review / London / Regency England / social climbing5 Comments

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Once again, Kaetrin and are reviewing one of Balogh’s Westcott novels together. – Janine Janine: Someone to Romance begins with Lady Jessica Archer, half-sister to the Duke of Netherby, escorted by a cavalcade of carriages to London. Jessica is twenty-five. She hasn’t met anyone special but she wants children and ... more >

July 21, 2020

REVIEW: Conned (The Bureau, #6) by Kim Fielding

SiriusBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- Reviews1920s / AU historical m/m romance / Historical / LGBTQA / paranormal elements2 Comments

World War I veteran Thomas Donne is new to San Francisco. Always a stoic man, shell shock and a lost love have nearly turned his heart to stone. No matter–a private eye has no room for softness. Almost broke, he takes on what appears to be a simple case: finding ... more >

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