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January 6, 2025

Sirius’ Best of 2024 List

SiriusA Review Category / A Reviews / A- Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists1920s / Agent/Spies/Undercover / ancient-Rome / Best of 2024 / contemporary m/m romance / cops / dragons / England / Fantasy / Germany / private investigators / Realistic Fiction / selkies / Shifters / Young-Adult11 Comments

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I have had a decent reading year and this time I decided to do something a little different with the Best of the Year List.  Usually I list the books on the list in no particular order, because I consider it too difficult a task to try and figure out ... more >

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March 5, 2021

What Janine is Reading: Fall 2020

JanineBook Reviews#ownvoices / arranged-marriage / California / Chef / coming-of-age / cops / m/m mystery / Missouri / Muslim / POC / POC author / police procedural / Reading lists / revenge porn / South-Asian / YA8 Comments

More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood Jayne’s review of this #ownvoices YA novel got me to pick it up and I was glad I did. Danyal Jilani is a good-looking and sweet nineteen-year-old in his senior year of high school (he was held back a year ... more >

October 2, 2018

REVIEW: Lights and Sirens (Emergency Services #2) by Lisa Henry

SiriusA Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended ReadsAustralia / cops / m/m romance / paramedics9 Comments

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Paramedic Hayden Kinsella is single and the life of the party. He likes driving fast and saving lives, and he doesn’t do relationships—he does hookups. Except he wouldn’t hook up with copper Matt Deakin if he were the last guy on the planet. Hayden thinks the feeling is mutual . ... more >

June 25, 2018

REVIEW: Skim Blood and Savage Verse (Offbeat Crimes Book 3) by Angel Martinez

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsantique books / cops / law-enforcement / LGBTQIA romance / LGBTQIAP+ / librarian / No Paranormal Left Behind / Offbeat Crimes Series / POC / Vampire2 Comments

Book three in the Offbeat Crimes series Words damage more than just feelings as Carrington hunts feral books menacing the city. When a ferocious book attacks Carrington at his own birthday party, he believes it’s an isolated incident. But similar books soon pop up all over town, menacing innocent people ... more >

March 13, 2017

REVIEW: Common Law series books one and two by Kate Sherwood

SiriusB Reviews Category / Book Reviewscops / murder mystery. m/m romance / organized crime / romantic-suspense / Small-TownComments Off on REVIEW: Common Law series books one and two by Kate Sherwood

Book One – Long Shadows LA cop Jericho Crewe got the hell out of Mosely, Montana, when he was seventeen. Fifteen years later, he’s back, and everything is just as messed up as when he left. He planned a quick visit to deal with his injured father, but of course ... more >

March 24, 2011

REVIEW: The Edge of Night by Jill Sorenson

JanineB Reviews / Book ReviewsCalifornia / cops / interracial-romance / Latina / Latino / law-enforcement / romantic-suspense / Serial-Killer / single mother8 Comments

Readers of this review should know that Jill Sorenson contributes f/f and f/f/m reviews to this blog on a once-a-month basis. Dear Ms. Sorenson, Contemporary romantic suspense is a genre I can enjoy a lot when a book is well-executed, but most of the time, I don't find myself drawn ... more >

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