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July 31, 2026

REVIEW: Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsathlete hero / Contemporary / dysfunctional family / emotional abuse / friendship / gaslighting / Maine / self discovery / Small-Town / Widowed Heroine9 Comments

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A heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who’s lost her husband and a major league pitcher who’s lost his game. In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death ... more >

November 1, 2023

REVIEW: Rough Around the Hedges: an Uncanny Romance Novel by Lish McBride

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / emotional abuse / fathers and daughters / found family / No Paranormal Left Behind / Paranormal / Seattle / Uncanny Romance / unrequited-love / witchComments Off on REVIEW: Rough Around the Hedges: an Uncanny Romance Novel by Lish McBride

Will Murphy spends his down time doing subversive cross-stitch, crafting saucy baked goods for the romance book club he attends with his Nana, and desperately trying to hide the fact that he’s been in love with Vanessa Woodbridge for, well, ever. For years, he’s been content to wear the best ... more >

October 12, 2023

REVIEW: A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard

JayneBook Reviews / D Reviewsbisexual / emotional abuse / female leads / female protagonists / lesbian / LGBTQIA characters / POC / POC author / POC heroine / revenge / Sci-fi / Science Fiction / SF / SFF / space opera / Xuya Universe13 Comments

The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats on the edge of a huge galactic empire—a glittering, decadent society rife with corruption. Now, one of its victims—Quynh, a scholar betrayed and left for dead—has come back for her revenge, under the guise of the glamorous and enigmatic Alchemist of ... more >

May 20, 2022

REVIEW: A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan

JanineBook Reviews / DNF Reviews#ownvoices / Bangladeshi-American / Contemporary / depression / diversity / emotional abuse / high-school / Muslim / parents / South-Asian / YA2 Comments

Dear Tashie Bhuiyan, Last year I enjoyed your debut, Counting Down with You, a YA contemporary about a Bangladeshi-American high school student’s struggle with anxiety, demanding and controlling parents, and falling in love with a white boy. I liked it enough to request an ARC of your second book, A ... more >

September 6, 2021

REVIEW: Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / Ballerina / ballet / biracial heroine / body image / Dancer / eating disorders / emotional abuse / fat shaming / Filipino American / First-Person / New York City / non-fiction / POC author / racism / sexism4 Comments

Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet—the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don’t see from the orchestra circle. In this love letter to the art of dance and the sport that has ... more >

October 9, 2020

REVIEW: Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviewsactor / dysfunctional family / dyslexia / emotional abuse / fandom / fanfic / fat MC / fat shaming / insta love / online community10 Comments

Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. The world may know him as Aeneas, star of the biggest show on television, but fanfiction readers call him something else: Book!AeneasWouldNever. Marcus gets out his frustrations with the show through anonymous stories about the internet’s favorite couple, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone discovered ... more >

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