B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsCanada / coming out / Contemporary / Gay / hockey / NetGalley / queer / Sports3 Comments
Dear Rachel Reid, I read Common Goal a while back and more recently, Heated Rivalry (I am completely an Ilya Rozanov fangirl now) and I jumped on (aka begged for) an ARC of Role Model immediately after because I wasn’t ready to leave this world. (Now I’m reading Game Changer ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / Alberta / Canada / Canadian Historical Brides series / Canadian history / Ghost / Historical / orphan heroine / working classNo Comments
In the Dirty Thirties jobs were hard to come by. Having lost her father and her home in southern Alberta, Tilly McCormack is thrilled when her application for a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Banff Springs Hotel, one of Canada’s great railway hotels, is accepted. Tilly loves her ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsbisexual / Canada / Gay / PNR / POC / queer / Toronto4 Comments
Once bitten. Twice burned. Forever bonded. Don’t miss this riveting and romantic spin-off series from Jenn Burke, author of Not Dead Yet. Paranormals are dying. All over the city, with no explanation and only one thing in common: their magic is missing. Vampire and private investigator Evan Fournier isn’t supposed ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / bootlegging / Canada / Canadian Historical Brides series / Canadian history / Historical / Nova Scotia / Widowed Heroine / women's rights / Womens-Fiction7 Comments
Maggie Conrad’s husband of ten days is sent overseas in WW1 and never comes home. A second suitor is lost at sea in Nova Scotia’s August Gale. Turning thirty, and on her own, she resolves to make a life for her herself and her younger brother, Ivan. Against her wishes, ... more >
MiscCanada / news / travel / winter9 Comments
Let’s face it. 2020 has sucked. Or as I saw on a sign one of my neighbors had put up in their front yard, “OMG, will 2020 never end?” But here is something that made me smile after I finished reading it. “A Canadian man drives stranded American family 1000 ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsCanada / contemporary fiction / joint review / literary ficiton / Ponzi scheme10 Comments
Jennie: Five years ago, I read and loved Mandel’s breakout novel, Station Eleven. It would probably have not come to my attention if not for Janine’s terrific review. I loved Station Eleven so much that I was inspired to read the author’s first novel, Last Night in Montreal, which wasn’t ... more >