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September 6, 2018

REVIEW: A Plague on Mr Pepys by Deborah Swift

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews17th-century / adultery / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Historical / London / Marriage-in-Trouble / plague2 Comments

Sometimes money costs too much. The Great Plague has London in its grip. As the summer heat rises, red crosses mark the doors, wealthy citizens flee and only the poor remain to face the march of death. Ambitious and attractive, Bess Bagwell is determined her carpenter husband, Will, should make ... more >

August 30, 2018

REVIEW: Blyd and Pearce by Kim Fielding

SiriusBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- Reviewsfantasy m/m romance5 Comments

Born into poverty and orphaned young, Daveth Blyd had one chance for success when his fighting prowess earned him a place in the Tangye city guard—a place he lost to false accusations of theft. Now he scrapes out a living searching for wayward spouses and missing children. When a nobleman ... more >

August 29, 2018

REVIEW: Under Control by Shannon Stacey

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviews CategoryBoston Fire / Contemporary / family relationships / Firefighters / opposites attract / Single Parent1 Comments

When faced with the opportunity to change shifts while staying in the same house, veteran firefighter Derek Gilman jumps at the chance. His new schedule means not working Saturdays, which means more time to spend with his two kids. His divorce may have been amicable, but being a firefighter and ... more >

Head and shoulders of a hot dark-haired bearded younger guy on the front right of the cover, in the background on the left is the head and upper body of a silver fox-type guy in a tux.
August 24, 2018

REVIEW: Imperial Stout by Layla Reyne

KaetrinBook Reviews / C+ Reviewsbisexual / m/m romance / part of a series / queer / romantic-suspense / San-Francisco2 Comments

Dear Layla Reyne, I have most of your first romantic suspense series, which began with Single Malt, on my TBR but I haven’t actually read any of them yet. I’ve heard good things about them (which is why they’re on the TBR) but catching up on even four books feels ... more >

August 23, 2018

What Janine is Reading and Listening to in Summer 2018

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / DNF ReviewsReading lists6 Comments

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher, read by Carrie Fisher and Billie Lourd What’s interesting about the audiobook version of Carrie Fisher’s memoir is that it’s read by Fisher herself, except for the journal entries from her time making the original Star Wars—those are read by her daughter, Billie Lourd. ... more >

August 22, 2018

REVIEW: The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / dual-timeline / England / Historical / historical paranormal / Time-Travel / Tudor-England / Womens-Fiction8 Comments

Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as ... more >

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