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October 14, 2021

REVIEW: You Make It Feel Like Christmas by Francis Ray and Donna Hill

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAtlanta / category length / Christmas / fake girlfriend / family relationships / Magic / Marriage-in-Trouble / novella / POC / POC author / TexasComments Off on REVIEW: You Make It Feel Like Christmas by Francis Ray and Donna Hill

Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree by Donna Hill Denise has always been the faithful wife and dutiful mother for the twenty-plus years she’s been married to Edward. But now, she’s ready to live a few dreams of her own. When Denise drops the bomb at Thanksgiving dinner that she is ... more >

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March 13, 2019

What Janine is Reading and Listening to in Early 2019

JanineA- Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF Reviews#ownvoices / 1950s / astronaut / audiobook / Beauty-and-the-Beast / fake girlfriend / Korean American / LGBTQIAP+ / m/m / meteor / POC / POC author / Reading lists / Science Fiction / World War II / YA20 Comments

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han, narrated by Laura Knight Keating Recently I finished listening to the audiobook of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han. This was the version narrated by Laura Knight Keating and is not to be confused with another ... more >

February 21, 2018

REVIEW x 3: Act Like It by Lucy Parker

JanineC- Reviewsactor/actress / contemperroneous / Contemporary / fake girlfriend / theater21 Comments

Dear Ms. Parker, I approached your contemporary romance set in the world of the London theater, Act Like It, with anticipation, for two reasons. First, I have a bit of theatrical experience, both on stage and (more) behind it, so I love to read books set in this milieu. Second, ... more >

January 30, 2018

REVIEW x 1: The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsCalifornia / commitment issues / Contemporary / doctor hero / fake girlfriend / long distance relationship / plus-size heroine / POC / POC author / politicians / politics / Romance/Multicultural Romance1 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Ms. Guillory, Roxane Gay’s rave review of your debut novel, a contemporary romance, caught my attention on Goodreads, so when your publicist at Penguin Random House contacted Dear Author to offer us an ARC of The Wedding Date, I jumped on it. Alexa Monroe and Drew Nichols meet cute ... more >

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