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August 24, 2023

REVIEW: Home for the Challah Days by Jennifer Wilck

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsanti-Semitism / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Rosh Hashanah / second chance at love / Yom Kippur6 Comments

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Turning the bitterness of the past… Into a sweet future! When big-city advocate Sarah Abrams returns home for the High Holy Days, she’s got a lot on her mind—especially whether to marry her perfect-on-paper boyfriend. The last person she wants to encounter is Aaron Isaacson, her first love and the ... more >

March 10, 2023

REVIEW: Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / Agent/Spies/Undercover / anti-Semitism / family relationships / German-Americans / Historical / Historical fiction / Hollywood / inspirational / Los Angeles / Nazis / pre-WWII / sexual harassment / single mother10 Comments

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“What I am looking for—what I desperately need, Mrs. Weiss—is a spy.” Adolf Hitler is still a distant rumble on the horizon, but a Jewish spymaster and his courageous spies uncover a storm of Nazi terror in their own backyard. In the summer of 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler ... more >

June 11, 2021

REVIEW: Miss Jacobson’s Journey (Rothschild Trilogy #1) by Carola Dunn

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / anti-Semitism / France / Historical / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Peninsular-War / prejudice / Regency / road trip / second chance at love / strong heroine / trad regency11 Comments

Having refused the man her parents chose for her, Miriam Jacobson opts to travel the Continent assisting her physician uncle, but when her uncle dies, she finds herself smuggling gold across Napoleon’s France to Wellington in Spain, accompanied by two attractive young men, both of whom detest her—and each other. ... more >

May 28, 2021

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner, read by Elsa Lepecki Bean

JanineBook Reviewsanti-Semitism / audiobook / baronet / bisexual characters / England / Gothic / governess / Jane Eyre / Jewish heroine / Judaism / LGBTQIAP+ / love triangles / mental health / Portugal / prisoners / PTSD / pyrophobia / Regency / Retelling / romantic-elements / Suspense2 Comments

Trigger warnings: Dear Rose Lerner, I stopped listening to your new audiobook, an Audible Original titled The Wife in the Attic, at 74% for reasons detailed below. It pains me to say this, not only because I’ve enjoyed some of your previous books but because I like you and because ... more >

April 6, 2021

REVIEW: The Intimacy Experiment by Rosie Danan

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsanti-Semitism / bisexual / cinnamon roll hero / Contemporary / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Los Angeles / opposites attract / porn star / prickly heroine / religion / revenge porn / sex education / sexuality / slut shaming6 Comments

Naomi Grant has built her life around going against the grain. After the sex-positive start-up she cofounded becomes an international sensation, she wants to extend her educational platform to live lecturing. Unfortunately, despite her long list of qualifications, higher ed won’t hire her. Ethan Cohen has recently received two honors: ... more >

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