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April 27, 2023

REVIEW: Artfully Yours by Joanna Lowell (x2)

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsboss/secretary / criminal / critic / forgery / Historical / Late VictorianComments Off on REVIEW: Artfully Yours by Joanna Lowell (x2)

Dear Joanna Lowell, This is the second time we are reviewing your most recent romance here at DA. Layla reviewed Artfully Yours back in February. She told me it was her favorite of your four most recent romances and what can I say, even though I thought Dark Season was ... more >

December 7, 2022

What Janine is Reading: The Devils Series by Elizabeth O’Roark, Books One and Two

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF Reviews / Reading Listsboss/secretary / celebrity / forbidden-love / France / Hawaii / Los Angeles / Reading lists / rock stars / Somalia / star-crossed lovers / surgeon / Writer19 Comments

In September and October I read (or in one case tried to read) the first three books in Elizabeth O’Roark’s Devils series (book four comes out December 1st). They’d been recommended to me by no less than three people and a couple more friends have recommended them since then. Here ... more >

June 8, 2020

REVIEW: Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviews#metoo / boss/secretary / Chinese American heroine / Contemporary / f/f / friends-to-lovers / interracial relationship / Jewish heroine / Los Angeles / May-December / workplace-romanceComments Off on REVIEW: Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

Trigger warning: Dear Meryl Wilsner, The setting of you debut novel, a contemporary romance titled Something to Talk About, was one of the first things that brought the book to my attention. Entertainment industry settings interest me, but I’m a little leery of reading about show business in romances because ... more >

March 24, 2020

REVIEW: The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewsboss/secretary / Contemporary / Disabled Heroine / Marriage-in-Trouble / road-romance / secrets / workplace-romance4 Comments

… a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own. Carey Duncan has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, ... more >

August 12, 2017

REVIEW: The Corner Shop by Elizabeth Cadell

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / art thief / boss/secretary / England / Historical / opposites attract / Paris / professor13 Comments

Recommended Read

Lucille Abbey runs her London secretarial agency with utmost efficiency. When, therefore, a certain Professor Hallam rejects three girls sent by her to apply for the post of his secretary and they each pronounce him “impossible”, Lucille herself sets out to interview the Professor at his home in Hampshire. He ... more >

September 21, 2013

REVIEW: The Other C Word by MK Schiller

JaneC Reviewsboss/secretary / Contemporary / office romance11 Comments

Dear MK Schiller: I bought this because a lot of readers in a message board forum were discussing it.  I had to buy it at Kobo with a coupon because otherwise the price would have been a deterrent because you were a new-to-me author.  The gist of the story is ... more >

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