A Reviews / A- Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category#ownvoices / amateur sleuths / book clubs / Brooklyn / childhood friends / children / civil rights / families / female friendship / Historical / India / Japanese-American history / Kentucky / librarians / Los Angeles / Memoir / mystery / POC / POC author / Reading lists / South Carolina / Womens-Fiction / YA10 Comments
I run a virtual book club for seniors, volunteering for a non-profit (check it out and see if you’d like to help, or consider participating in the national village movement closer to your home), and we take turns picking out the books we read. One of the advantages this has ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsfemale friendship / Paranormal / women12 Comments
Every woman goes through changes in their forties. Just not… these changes. Robin Brannon was a normal wife, mom, and antique shop owner until a brush with death turned her day-to-day life upside down. Now she and her two best friends are seeing things that belong in a fantasy novel. ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsA Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery / Agent/Spies/Undercover / amateur sleuths / class differences / colonialism / dysfunctional family / female friendship / London / matchmakers / mystery / POC / Post WWII5 Comments
In Allison Monclair’s A Rogue’s Company, business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge threatens everything that one of the principals holds dear. In London, 1946, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / discrimination / England / f/f / female friendship / friendship / LGBTQIA / LGBTQIA romance / opposites attract / police / police procedural / sexual harassment / Small-Town / The Wallops3 Comments
There are worrying times ahead for Wallops valley community police officer Wendy Goodall. As part of a witness protection task force, she volunteers for the Girl Guides to ensure the safety of Lexi, a young girl in the local village, while sexy Detective Inspector Diya Patel makes her new job ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsaliens / female friendship / Massachusetts / Science Fiction / Sorrow Falls series / spaceship / teenager9 Comments
When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet’s only hope for survival Three years ago, a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts. It never opened its doors, and for all that time, the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / African American / Christmas / female friendship / holiday novella / POC / POC author / The Holiday Shorts series5 Comments
Saidah’s Christmas memories have been warped by personal tragedy. A chance encounter brings her unexpected love and a new outlook on life. Here’s to finding love where you least expect it! Trigger warning: Dear Ms. White, I actually found this novella when I began looking for Kwanzaa romances. Not being ... more >