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February 10, 2025

REVIEW: The Rolling Thunder by Embassie Susberry

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1950 / African American / American historical / enemies to lovers / Historical / historical romance / Louisiana / murder mystery / POC / POC authorComments Off on REVIEW: The Rolling Thunder by Embassie Susberry

Taking a break from her life as a lawyer in Chicago, Theodosia “Theo” Brantley decides to spend the summer of 1955 in Carlin, Louisiana visiting her southern relatives—and to see if she can possibly make a go of a new career as a photographer. But when her grandmother asks her ... more >

January 22, 2025

REVIEW: The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / abolitionist / American historical / arranged-marriage / Glasgow / Historical / inspirational romance / merchant class / ScotlandComments Off on REVIEW: The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz

Virigina plantation life is all she has ever known. But could the life she was meant to live be waiting on a distant shore? In 1774, Juliet Catesby lives with her father and sister at Royal Vale, the James River plantation founded by her Virginia family over a century before. ... more >

June 5, 2024

REVIEW: The Last Note of Warning: A Mystery by Katharine Schellman

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / American historical / corruption / Historical / Jazz Age / LGBTQIA characters / LGBTQIAP+ / murder mystery / New York City / working classComments Off on REVIEW: The Last Note of Warning: A Mystery by Katharine Schellman

The Last Note of Warning is the third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and ... more >

May 23, 2024

REVIEW: The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1900s / American historical / female doctor / Historical fiction / PTSD / road novels / scam / single mother / travel / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore

A downtrodden female doctor takes up with a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son, joining a German giantess, a bowlegged musician, an indentured Creek poet, and a handsome tinker under the thumb of a charismatic but menacing swindler on a collision course with the deadliest natural disaster in ... more >

April 5, 2024

REVIEW: In Deed and in Truth by Embassie Susberry

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1910s / African American / American historical / Arkansas / Chicago / dysfunctional family / enemies to lovers / family relationships / Historical / inspirational / passing / POC / POC author / racism / reporterComments Off on REVIEW: In Deed and in Truth by Embassie Susberry

Lillian Rose Atkins is tired. She’s tired of picking cotton, serving as a maid in a hotel, and taking care of her younger cousins. So when she receives an invitation from the mother she hasn’t seen in ten years to move to Chicago and take part in Chicago society, Lily ... more >

February 20, 2024

REVIEW: The Trouble with You by Ellen Feldman

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / 1940s New York / 1950s / American historical / blacklist / Historical / Historical fiction / Jewish characters / self discovery / single mother / Widowed Heroine / women's rights / Womens-Fiction / Writer2 Comments

In an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethical, and the men who represent each… Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, ... more >

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