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January 6, 2026

REVIEW: Fire Must Burn (A Sparks and Bainbridge Mystery Book 8) by Allison Montclair

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery / Agent/Spies/Undercover / female friendship / flashbacks / Historical / London / matchmakers / mystery / Post WWII / traumatic-past4 Comments

The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as being dragged into a spy mission isn’t going to stop them! Sparks fly when an old friend ... more >

December 29, 2025

REVIEW: Mrs. Walford by Brenda Tyedmers

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / addiction / Artist / epistolary / female friendship / found family / Gilded Age / Historical fiction / New York City / Nova Scotia / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

A thirty-year-old mother of two and wife of a prominent Brooklyn ship broker registers at the Queen Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, using a false name. Two weeks later she is buried in the local cemetery. Or is she? Without family or friends, health or hope, Sadie Walford arrives already ... more >

June 5, 2025

REVIEW: The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp by Lynne Olson

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / female friendship / France / History / non-fiction / resistance/oppression / survival / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp by Lynne Olson

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The extraordinary true story of a small group of Frenchwomen, all Resistance members, who banded together in a notorious concentration camp to defy the Nazis Decades after the end of World War II, the name Ravensbrück still evokes horror for those with knowledge of this infamous all-women’s concentration camp, better ... more >

May 21, 2025

REVIEW: Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding by Lian Dolan

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewscultural differences / female friendship / marriage / older characters / wedding / Womens-Fiction4 Comments

Everyone loves—and hates—a big fancy wedding! From the author of Lost and Found in Paris and The Marriage Sabbatical comes a champagne-sparkling summer read about two very different women planning their children’s wedding in glamorous Montecito, California. You’re invited…to a delightful modern comedy of manners about two moms, the best-laid ... more >

April 30, 2025

REVIEW: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads2010s / epistolary / female friendship / Fiction / motherhood / older woman7 Comments

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“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which they will certainly ... more >

April 23, 2025

REVIEW: The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / Book-club / female friendship / feminism / found family / Historical / women's rights / Womens-Fiction3 Comments

Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in her buttoned-up suburb. By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman’s dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia–one of Northern Virginia’s most ... more >

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