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November 6, 2024

REVIEW: Misery Hates Company by Elizabeth Hobbs

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1890s / dysfunctional family / Gothic / Historical fiction / Late Victorian / literary adaptation / Massachusetts / murder mystery3 Comments

A young woman is invited to a mysterious relative’s estate and winds up entangled in a murder investigation in this witty historical mystery that pits the gothic eeriness of Crimson Peak against the comic absurdities of Knives Out. Miss Marigold Manners may be steeped in the etiquette of her old-money ... more >

October 11, 2024

REVIEW: The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / crime thriller / dysfunctional family / fathers and daughters / Fiction / First-Person / secrets / wedding8 Comments

Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He’s even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire. Frank is ecstatic, and determined to finally make things ... more >

September 30, 2024

REVIEW: In the Shadow of the Ship by Aliette de Bodard

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsdysfunctional family / female leads / female protagonists / LGBTQIA characters / novella / POC / POC author / Sci-fi / SF / Xuya UniverseComments Off on REVIEW: In the Shadow of the Ship by Aliette de Bodard

Nightjar, sentient ship and family matriarch, looms large in Khuyên’s past. Disappearances drove teenage Khuyên from it, but death will steer her back. Now an adult and a magistrate, Khuyên came for her maternal grandmother’s funeral but finds herself unwittingly reliving her past on the decaying Nightjar. Children are still ... more >

September 24, 2024

REVIEW: The Night Before Christmas by Nicola Knight

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Dark / dysfunctional family / England / holiday setting / self discovery / self doubt / traumatic-pastComments Off on REVIEW: The Night Before Christmas by Nicola Knight

Felicity Brooks is a bit of a Scrooge—but when she meets a man dressed as a giant penguin on Christmas Eve, could it spell a change of heart? The ridiculous music. The excessive presents. The stupid Christmas sweaters. Felicity wants nothing more than to escape it all, and she pounces ... more >

September 3, 2024

REVIEW: Saving Susy Sweetchild by Barbara Hambly

JayneBook Reviews1920s / dark academia / dysfunctional family / fish-out-of-water / Historical / historical mystery / Hollywood / Hollywood Golden Age / kidnapping / Los Angeles / Movies / silent movie4 Comments

Welcome to Hollywood of the 1920s: a world filled with glamour, fake names . . . and the occasional felony! July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young British widow Emma Blackstone is settling into her new ... more >

August 1, 2024

REVIEW: Fairest of the Fayre by Sheri Cobb South

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsdysfunctional family / family relationships / Historical / Regency / revenge / trad regency4 Comments

Penelope Fayre, nineteen years old and the belle of the Season, knows she must marry money, but she’d hoped to find a man she could love for his personality as well as his purse. Now the Season is drawing to a close, and if such a man exists, he has ... more >

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