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December 27, 2022

REVIEW: That Sweet Enemy by Dinah Dean (aka Marjorie May)

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdisability / disabled hero / enemies to lovers / English heroine / forced-marriage / French hero / Historical / Napoleonic wars / Regency / revenge / Switzerland8 Comments

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A scarred hero… A courageous heroine! Homebound after the journey of a lifetime, the resumption of the Napoleonic Wars traps Mary Burns and her companions in Switzerland. They find themselves suspected of espionage by the French and must persuade Captain Armand Dufour of their innocence. Scarred, cold, and sarcastic, Captain ... more >

December 5, 2022

JOINT REVIEW: Moira’s Pen by Megan Whalen Turner

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviewsambassador / disability / earrings / gods / joint review / king / Mediterranean setting / myth / princess / queen / spies / thief / YA fantasy3 Comments

Janine: Megan Whalen Turner completed her Queen’s Thief series two years ago, and the essays, stories and vignettes in Moira’s Pen, a new collection of set in the same world and featuring some of the same characters, are a bit like the big crumbs and smears of ganache left on ... more >

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May 4, 2022

REVIEW: Kiss Hard by Nalini Singh

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdisability / fake relationship / found family / frenemies to lovers / friends-to-lovers / Hard Play series / NetGalley / New Zealand / POC / POC author / rugby3 Comments

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Dear Nalini Singh, It’s been a while since the last Hard Play release (Love Hard – I did in fact love it hard) and there have been a lot of books in between, so I’d kind of forgotten who Catie and Danny were and the various relationships in the Bishop-Esera ... more >

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May 2, 2022

JOINT REVIEW: The Long Game by Rachel Reid

KaetrinA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbisexual / Canada / coming out / Contemporary / depression / disability / Gay / hockey / joint review / LGBTQIAP+ / NetGalley / queer / rivalry / star-crossed lovers18 Comments

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Janine, Sirius and I were all so excited to read The Long Game and eager to talk about it once we did so we decided to review it together. Please note there will be series spoilers for prior books. Heated Rivalry is essential prior reading but Role Model is also ... more >

January 3, 2022

REVIEW: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

JanineA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / captain / corporation / disability / diversity / epistolary / found family / LGBTQIAP+ / loss / mother and son / music / Mysterious powers / POC / queer characters / single mother / spaceship5 Comments

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Dear Simon Jimenez, This beautiful standalone science fiction novel was one of the novels on my “Best of 2020” list. I read it in December of 2020 and have put off reviewing for over a year because I felt hard put to do it justice. I’m finally taking the plunge ... more >

December 8, 2021

JOINT REVIEW: The Larks Still Bravely Singing by Aster Glenn Gray

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews1910s / 1920s / amputee / anxiety / boarding school / convalescent hospital / Cornwall / disability / England / English countryside / epistolary / historical romance / infidelity / joint review / m/m romance / Oxford / trauma / World War I12 Comments

Janine: The Larks Still Bravely Singing begins when Robert Montagu and David Callahan reunite after being invalided from the battlefields of World War I. Robert and David both attended the Abbey, an English boys’ boarding school. As members of the same natural history club, they rambled along the countryside and ... more >

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