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April 1, 2022

REVIEW: Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

JanineB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsadvice / bisexual heroine / epistolary / friendship / hidden identity / high-school / LGBTQIA+ / love triangles / relationship in trouble / Relationships / Sophie Gonzales / YA6 Comments

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Dear Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper was a finalist in the Goodreads Awards YA Fiction category and I thought it sounded interesting and different, so I picked it up. (A warning to readers: the blurb for this book contains spoilers and I recommend avoiding it if you don’t want to ... 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 / LGBTQIA+ / 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 >

September 25, 2021

REVIEW: Dear Beast by Dori Hillestad Butler, illustrated by Kevan Atteberry

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviewsacceptance / cats / children's book / conflicts / dog / epistolary / friendship / Jealousy / picture books / rivalryComments Off on REVIEW: Dear Beast by Dori Hillestad Butler, illustrated by Kevan Atteberry

A jealous cat really, really, REALLY wants to drive away his young owner’s new dog in this playful illustrated chapter book from a two-time Geisel Honor winner. Simon has taken care of his owner, Andy, for many years. He’s a good cat. Clean, responsible, and loyal. What more could a ... more >

August 4, 2021

REVIEW: Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections From Back Home by Vicki Cody

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1990s / Army / epistolary / Kentucky / long separation / non-fiction / pilot / Saudi Arabia / War / Military3 Comments

It is August 1990, and Iraq has just invaded Kuwait, setting off a chain reaction of events leading up to the first Gulf War. Vicki Cody’s husband, the commander of an elite Apache helicopter battalion, is deployed to Saudi Arabia—and for the next nine months they have to rely on ... more >

July 19, 2021

REVIEW: The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho x 2

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Asian heroine / baby (non secret) / epistolary / First-Person / infidelity / London / novella / POC / POC author / South-Asian / Writer11 Comments

For writer Jade Yeo, the Roaring Twenties are coming in with more of a purr. She’s perfectly happy making a living by churning out articles on what the well-dressed woman is wearing. But when she pillories one of London’s leading literary luminaries in a scathing review, she may have made ... more >

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