SiriusA Review Category / A Reviews / A- Reviews / B Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Top Ten Listscontemporary m/m romance / dragons / Fantasy / harbor pilot / Hockey Romance / m/m romance / Magic / reporter / vampires / werewolves13 Comments

I thought I had a decent reading year, I don’t usually have a lot of A books and this year was no exception, but I did have several B+ and for me grade between B+ and A may often end up being relative anyway. 1. “The House of the Sundering ... more >

December 27, 2019

Janine’s Best of 2019

JanineA Reviews / A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists#metoo / #ownvoices / 1870s / 1920s / 1970s / accountant / Agent/Spies/Undercover / arranged-marriage / Asperger's / audiobook / book editor / California / class differences / Contemporary / custody battle / dragons / enemies to lovers / epistolary / f/f / Fairyland / fake relationship / family / Fantasy / farming / friends-to-lovers / gods / heroine in disguise / high-school / historical romance / Hong Kong based world / illegitimate-child / LGBTQ / Literary fiction / London / look alikes / mafia / magical powers / Malaysia / martial arts / Mexico / nobleman / Northern Ireland / nurse / POC / political intrigue / quest / Reading lists / reformed hero / Regency-based world / romantic-elements / roommates / saga / single dad / streetwise heroine / Time-Travel / Vietnam / waitress / war19 Comments

I was tempted to make a list of my favorites among the 2019-published books I read this year. In the end I decided to focus on my favorite 2019 reads (first time reads; I didn’t include books I had read / reviewed in prior years) without regard to their year ... more >

March 25, 2019

REVIEW: The True Queen by Zen Cho

JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdragons / f/f / Fairyland / Fantasy / fiction with strong romantic elements / LGBTQ / Magic / magical powers / Malaysia / POC / Regency England / SFF7 Comments

Dear Ms. Cho, Three and a half years ago, Sunita and I reviewed your first novel, a regency-set fantasy titled Sorcerer to the Crown. I liked it enough to request an ARC of the sequel, The True Queen. I have to admit, though, that I was a little apprehensive because ... more >

March 11, 2019

REVIEW: Here Be Dragons by David P. Macpherson

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdragons / epic fantasy / Fantasy / fantasy adventure / humorous / older / road trip / spoof4 Comments

A mid-life crisis, a castle gardener, an unfaithful steed, a dastardly hero, a merciless king, and a dragon that needs saving. With heroes this bad who needs villains… When Orus graduated from the Cromalot School for Heroes he was ready for a life of glory and adventure. But after being ... more >

December 27, 2018

REVIEW: In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBeauty-and-the-Beast / dragons / f/f / Fantasy / novella2 Comments

From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast. In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land… A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village’s debts and ... more >

June 8, 2017

REVIEW: Recovery (Reawakening: Book three) by Amy Rae Durreson

SiriusB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsdragons / Fantasy / fantasy m/m romance / political intrigue6 Comments

Reawakening: Book Three Resistance, exile, plague. Raif has survived them all, but now he finds himself in search of a new purpose. Traveling north to wake the dragon Arden, he hopes he has finally found a leader worthy of his loyalty, but Arden turns out to be more of a ... more >