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April 12, 2021

REVIEW: The Anglophile by Dell Shannon (Egan O’Neill, Elizabeth Linington)

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / D Reviews18th-century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / antihero / discrimination / fortune hunter / Georgian / Historical / Historical fiction / Ireland / marriage-of-convenience / prejudice4 Comments

Ireland, 1749. Dennis McDermott, a witty, charming and daring young man with shades of the Scarlet Pimpernel, lives two lives in eighteenth-century Dublin. Fashionable society idolises him as a handsome, rakish man of their world, never suspecting that he is the mysterious leader of the Irish underground whose nightly missions ... more >

February 17, 2021

REVIEW: The Turncoat’s Widow by Mally Becker

JayneBook Reviews / C ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / American historical / American Revolution / American Revolutionary War / Historical / historical mystery / Widowed HeroineComments Off on REVIEW: The Turncoat’s Widow by Mally Becker

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she’s a Loyalist sympathizer who betrayed her husband to the British—quite a tidy way to end ... more >

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January 29, 2021

Janine’s Best of 2020

JanineBook Reviews / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Best of 2020 / best of list / boarding school / Cold War / disabled hero / found family / genius loci / historical romance / king / Literary fiction / loner / m/m / magic users / one day courtship / passing / SF / thief / twins / UF / voting / war / YA / YA fantasy14 Comments

Recommended Read

I spent much of 2020 grateful to books and authors for giving me a way to visit other times and places while stuck at home because of Covid. Below, listed in alphabetical order by author, are my top eight favorite books of 2020. Some grades have been adjusted since my ... more >

July 29, 2020

JOINT REVIEW: A Royal Affair by Allison Montclair

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviews / C+ ReviewsA Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery / Agent/Spies/Undercover / amateur sleuths / class differences / English historical mystery / female friendship / Historical / joint review / London / matchmakers / mystery / Post WWII / Royalty / widow5 Comments

In London 1946, The Right Sort Marriage Bureau is just beginning to take off and the proprietors, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, are in need of a bigger office and a secretary to handle the growing demand. Unfortunately, they don’t yet have the necessary means. So when a ... more >

July 14, 2020

REVIEW: The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAfrican American / Agent/Spies/Undercover / Artificial Intelligence / Asian hero / cats / dystopian / futuristic / government surveillance / multicultural romance / novella / POC / POC author5 Comments

Trinity Jordan leads a quiet, normal life: working from home for the Hive, a multifunctional government research center, and recovering from the incident that sent her into a tailspin. But the life she’s trying to rebuild is plagued by mishaps when Li Wei, her neighbor’s super sexy and super strange ... more >

May 26, 2020

REVIEW: No Bridges Blown : With the OSS Jedburghs in Nazi-Occupied France by William B. Dreux

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / autobiography / France / non-fiction / War / Military / World War II3 Comments

A rediscovered classic of military history back in print for the 75th anniversary of World War II When William B. Dreux parachuted into France in 1944, the OSS infantry officer had cinematic visions of blood-and-guts heroics, of leading the French Maquis resistance forces in daring missions to blow up key ... more >

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