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July 21, 2026

REVIEW: Deadly Does It (A Mason & Mann Mystery Book 2) by Abbi Waxman

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsactor/actress / addiction / alcoholism / Contemporary / found family / Los Angeles / murder mysteryNo Comments

When Natasha Mason’s AA sponsor is in deadly danger, she turns to the cranky yet brilliant Julia Mann for help, in this exciting new mystery novel from the USA Today bestselling author of One Death at a Time. Mason, a Gen Z adrenaline junkie, and Mann, an ex-con, ex-actress, and ... more >

April 15, 2025

REVIEW: One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsactor/actress / alcoholism / Contemporary / found family / Los Angeles / murder mystery4 Comments

A cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison in this dazzling new mystery novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. When Julia Mann, a bad-tempered ex-actress and ... more >

April 24, 2024

REVIEW: Not How I Pictured It by Robin Lefler

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviewsactor/actress / Bahamas / Closed circle mystery / Contemporary / Fiction / forced proximity / mystery / second chance / self discovery / tv show2 Comments

A sharply hilarious and ultimately heartfelt novel about a former teen superstar who grudgingly agrees to a reboot of the show that made her (in)famous, from the author of Reasonable Adults. Twenty years after Ocean Views went off the air, the beloved TV show about teenage romance and angst is ... more >

August 4, 2020

REVIEW: You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviews#ownvoices / actor/actress / alcoholism / Boricua / Contemporary / family relationships / Latina / Latino / New York City / POC / POC author / PTSD / Puerto Rican / soap opera / telenovela4 Comments

Leading Ladies do not end up on tabloid covers. After a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. When she returns to her hometown of New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number ... more >

July 20, 2020

REVIEW: Tread the Boards by Nikki Logan

JayneBook Reviews / C- Reviewsactor/actress / Australia / estranged family / playwright / theaterComments Off on REVIEW: Tread the Boards by Nikki Logan

He’s the Banksy of the international theatre scene – daring, anonymous, renowned. So when playwright ‘Draven’ bequeaths his latest play to the rural Rivervue Theatre, the stage is set for drama. Props-maven Mackenzie Russell is no fan of the Larrikin, the subject of Draven’s new play. But she is a ... more >

October 28, 2019

REVIEW: Scary, Lovesick, Foolish: A Halloween Romance (Crazy, Sexy, Ghoulish Book 2) by G.G. Andrew

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsactor/actress / First-Person / Halloween / holiday novella / novella / Relationships / Young-AdultComments Off on REVIEW: Scary, Lovesick, Foolish: A Halloween Romance (Crazy, Sexy, Ghoulish Book 2) by G.G. Andrew

It was a question he had to ask… Brendan Forrester loves his girlfriend, Nora. Like can’t-live-without-her, Gomez-to-her-Morticia-Addams loves her. But when he asks her for more, he can’t help but notice the look of fear in her eyes. Then a ghost from their past shows up at the horror festival ... more >

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