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August 24, 2023

REVIEW: Home for the Challah Days by Jennifer Wilck

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsanti-Semitism / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Rosh Hashanah / second chance at love / Yom Kippur6 Comments

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Turning the bitterness of the past… Into a sweet future! When big-city advocate Sarah Abrams returns home for the High Holy Days, she’s got a lot on her mind—especially whether to marry her perfect-on-paper boyfriend. The last person she wants to encounter is Aaron Isaacson, her first love and the ... more >

August 7, 2023

REVIEW: The Maid of Honour (updated) by Dinah Dean

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads17th-century / cats / Charles-II / enemies to lovers / Historical / plague / Restoration / Restoration England / slice of village life / Woodham Book seriesNo Comments

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In 1666, plague and fire will pull them asunder. But love will overcome. In a privileged role as Maid of Honor to the Queen of England, Miss Mary Hook should be content, but her companions’ lack of morals makes her miserable. When the plague forces the Royal court to leave ... more >

June 29, 2023

REVIEW: The Business Between Them (Once Upon a Wedding Book 4) by Mona Shroff

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsBaltimore / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / family relationships / Harlequin / hotelier / Indian American / Once Upon a Wedding series / POC / POC author / strong heroine2 Comments

She’s got his attention. Now she wants his company. The balance sheet of Reena Pandya’s life is currently in the red. One bad business decision has cost her her relationship, and now she stands to lose the family business to her ex, Akash Gupta. Tough but not ruthless, Akash is ... more >

June 20, 2023

JOINT REVIEW: Remember Me by Mary Balogh

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C+ Reviewsenemies to lovers / Historical / NetGalley / Regency19 Comments

Janine: Kaetrin and I have reviewed several books by Mary Balogh together, starting with Someone to Love, book one in the Westcott series. Remember Me is the second book in a newer series about the Ware family and we continue our joint review tradition with this review of it. In ... more >

June 16, 2023

REVIEW: Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbullying / Canada / Dual Timelines / enemies to lovers / family relationships / female friendship / grumpy / sunshine / hijabi / immigrant fiction / Muslim / POC / POC author / second chance at love / South-Asian / South-Asian Canadian / TorontoNo Comments

Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother’s unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it’s a far cry from ... more >

June 6, 2023

REVIEW: Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / Edelweiss / enemies to lovers / marriage-of-convenience / wine6 Comments

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Dear Tessa Bailey, Anyone who knows me knows that enemies to lovers is a trope that’s more miss than hit for me. I don’t enjoy love interests being cruel and that seems to happen often with enemies to lovers. In this case, I was aided by your acknowledgements at the ... more >

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