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February 8, 2021

REVIEW: Friends With Benefits by Lisa Swift

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbisexual / bullying / Contemporary / England / estranged family / family relationships / Friends / Friends with benefits / friends-to-lovers / LGBTQA / stepmothers / YA gay romance / Yorkshire4 Comments

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Could Mr Right-Now actually be Mr Right? Lexie Whittle thought she had life all sewn up, with a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home and a delightful teenage stepson. Until husband Daryl left to work overseas…and everything changed. A year later, Daryl and Lexie’s marriage is over. Lexie is fighting to ... more >

July 20, 2020

REVIEW: Tread the Boards by Nikki Logan

JayneBook Reviews / C- Reviewsactor/actress / Australia / estranged family / playwright / theaterNo Comments

He’s the Banksy of the international theatre scene – daring, anonymous, renowned. So when playwright ‘Draven’ bequeaths his latest play to the rural Rivervue Theatre, the stage is set for drama. Props-maven Mackenzie Russell is no fan of the Larrikin, the subject of Draven’s new play. But she is a ... more >

April 27, 2020

REVIEW: A Corruptible Crown by Gillian Bradshaw

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / England / English-Civil-War / estranged family / family relationships / Historical / London / long separation / politics / printing / Stuart-England / War / Military7 Comments

The compelling sequel to the English Civil War novel London in Chains – It is 1648, and the Civil War has been resurrected by a king still determined to be an absolute ruler and a parliament unable to agree how to govern without him. Blacksmith Jamie Hudson, weary and disillusioned, ... more >

April 14, 2020

REVIEW: The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsalcoholism / Contemporary / estranged family / Fiction / First-Person / Friends / older MCs / texas6 Comments

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Meet Duffy, an old curmudgeon who lives in an assisted living home. Meet Josie, a desperate young woman who climbs through his window. Together, they’re going to learn it’s never too late—or too early—to change your ways. For Duffy Sinclair, life boils down to one simple thing: maintaining his residence ... more >

January 16, 2020

REVIEW: Watch the Wall, My Darling by Jane Aiken Hodge

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / dysfunctional family / England / estranged family / Gothic / Historical / Regency / Smugglers9 Comments

Only a deathbed promise to her dying father could force Christina Tretton to travel to Tretteign Grange, the ‘Dark House’, and meet her estranged family for the first time. Having to fast-talk her way out of an encounter with smugglers on the way is only the beginning. Waiting for her ... more >

December 26, 2019

REVIEW: Days of Sugar and Spice by Clément Loïc, illustrated by Anne Montel

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsbaker / Brittany / Comic books / Contemporary / estranged family / family relationships / France / graphic novels / Womens-FictionNo Comments

Rose is not a happy young woman; she is closed off and angry and she hates her job. But her life changes drastically when she inherits her father’s bakery in a small town in Brittany. Returning to a place that brought her both joy and grief forces her to confront ... more >

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