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May 19, 2023

REVIEW: Her Fixer Upper by Emily Kerr

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewschildhood friends / Contemporary / England / First-Person / friends-to-lovers / prickly heroine / renovation / teacher heroine / YorkshireComments Off on REVIEW: Her Fixer Upper by Emily Kerr

Unable to afford their own homes, two friends decide to buy a renovation house together as a project. What could possibly go wrong…? Freya dreams of owning her own home. Charlie is struggling to get a mortgage. When the two old friends bump into each other on a night out, ... more >

April 17, 2023

REVIEW: Honey for Tea by Elizabeth Cadell

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewschildhood friends / England / English countryside / family relationships / fatphobia / Historical / mystery / village19 Comments

Jendy Marsh was worried about her sister Nancy. Six weeks before her wedding day, Nancy had broken off her engagement to Allen Harvey and gone away to Spain. Nancy and Allen were the two people Jendy loved most in the world, and there was so little she could do to ... more >

April 4, 2023

REVIEW: The Sergeant and the Girl Next Door by Laura Rupper

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / Business woman / childhood friends / enemies to lovers / Historical / inspirational / Post WWII / SoldierComments Off on REVIEW: The Sergeant and the Girl Next Door by Laura Rupper

World War II may be over, but Sergeant Davis Wilson feels no peace. Burdened by the loss of his best friend, Patrick, Davis has returned to his small town determined to make sure his friend’s mother and little sister are cared for. But the fiery young woman who greets him ... more >

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December 20, 2022

Jayne’s Total Mashup Book List

JayneA Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF Reviews / Reading Lists / Recommended Readsbiology / Cancer / cartoons / cats / childhood friends / children's book / ghoul / horror / non-fiction / novella / paleontology / picture books / POC / POC author / science2 Comments

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200,000 Snakes On the Hunt in Manitoba: or, How I Found a New Beginning at the Bottom of a Giant Pit of Snakes by Pat Spain Pat Spain was living the life he had always dreamed of. He had just finished filming his first National Geographic TV series Beast Hunter, ... more >

November 3, 2022

REVIEW: An Early Engagement by Barbara Metzger

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBattle of Waterloo / childhood friends / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / Regency / strong heroine4 Comments

Adventurous Lady Emilyanne had no one but Viscount Stokely to turn to when her guardian tried to force her to marry his awful stepson. So the viscount married her while on leave and returned to his army unit. Which left Lady Em to attend to estate and ton matters pretty ... more >

August 3, 2022

REVIEW: The Second First Chance by Mona Shroff

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewschildhood friends / Contemporary / family relationships / Firefighter / friends-to-lovers / Indian American / Maryland / POC / POC author / sexual harassment / veterinarian2 Comments

Strength comes in many different forms. Riya Desai and Dhillon Vora grew up together. Sharing secrets, hiding in their tree house, they were playmates, best friends and later—as teenagers—almost something more. Until the devastating house fire that ripped them apart, claiming the life of Dhillon’s father and Riya’s big brother, ... more >

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