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October 18, 2021

REVIEW: No Man’s Son by Doris Sutcliffe Adams

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsclass-difference / Crusade / fathers and daughters / medieval / Medieval Romance / Middle East / POC / strong heroine / War / Military2 Comments

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“This is the story of Rodriga de Perolles; of how she rescued the bastard renegade Marco from death and was rescued herself by the squire Piers; of how she joined with her father, the penniless and independent Sir Landry, in search for witnesses that would bring Piers his rightful inheritance; ... more >

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March 13, 2021

What Janine is Reading: Jeannie Lin’s Pinkang Li Books

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsarranged-marriage / Asian characters / class-difference / historical romance / Historical-China / Lotus Palace series / mystery / POC / POC author / Reading lists / scholar / Tang Dynasty6 Comments

Several years ago I fell in love with Jeannie Lin’s Lotus Palace novels. Whether you consider them romances or mysteries (I think of them as romances), the setting, a pleasure quarter called the Pinkang Li, part of the Tang Dynasty capital, Chang’an, during the 840s CE, is beautifully rendered and ... more >

October 23, 2020

REVIEW: The Ruin of Evangeline Jones by Julia Bennet

JanineBook Reviews / DNF Reviews1880s / class-difference / Con / con-artist / Duke / England / erotic photograph / historical romance / Late Victorian / London / medium / mentorship / spiritualism4 Comments

Dear Julia Bennet, Your book, set in 1888 London, sounded like something I would enjoy so I took a chance and bought it. The story starts with a séance. The titular heroine is a “medium” while the hero, Alex (a duke), has a passion for unmasking con artists. He is ... more >

August 13, 2020

REVIEW: The Landowner’s Secret (Brindabella Secrets, #1) by Sonya Heaney

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1880s / Australia / Brindabella Secrets series / class differences / class-difference / forced-marriage / HistoricalComments Off on REVIEW: The Landowner’s Secret (Brindabella Secrets, #1) by Sonya Heaney

New South Wales, 1885 When Alice Ryan wakes to find thugs surrounding her cottage, on the hunt for her no-good brother, she escapes into the surrounding bush. It is wealthy landowner Robert Farrer who finds her the next morning, dishevelled, injured, and utterly unwilling to share what she knows. With ... more >

June 12, 2020

REVIEW: Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?: Another John Pickett Mystery by Sheri Cobb South

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsclass-difference / England / family relationships / Historical / John Pickett mysteries series / London / mystery / Regency6 Comments

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When one of his colleagues witnesses a robbery in which one of the participants, a child, bears a striking resemblance to a certain Bow Street Runner, John Pickett realizes he has a young half-brother who has been “apprenticed” to a criminal gang. The brutal murder of the pursuing constable makes ... more >

September 9, 2019

REVIEW: Into Thin Eire by Sheri Cobb South

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass-difference / England / Historical / Ireland / John Pickett mysteries series / mystery / Regency / revenge3 Comments

Now you see her… Still haunted by memories of his last case, in which an innocent woman was accidentally killed, Bow Street Runner John Pickett welcomes the challenge of a new assignment in the West Country. Unfortunately, this time he’ll have to leave his beloved wife, Julia, behind, as he’ll ... more >

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