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January 14, 2026

REVIEW: My Dear Aunt Flora by Elizabeth Cadell

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / English countryside / family relationships / First-Person / found family4 Comments

At Rushing Farm, the Manning household—with Aunt Flora at its head—lives in harmony. With the appearance of George Manning, however, peace is at an end. George is a successful actor, spoilt and selfish. He sees nothing at Rushing but discomfort and boredom, and his relations hope that he will carry ... more >

December 10, 2025

REVIEW: The World at Home by Ginny Kubitz Moyer

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsbittersweet / coming-of-age / Fiction / First-Person / Historical fiction / orphan heroine / self discovery / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: The World at Home by Ginny Kubitz Moyer

… a coming-of-age story about a young woman discovering love, loss, and the power of her own creativity in World War II San Francisco. San Francisco in 1944 is a bustling place, a revolving door of soldiers and sailors passing through on their way to the war in the Pacific. ... more >

October 29, 2025

REVIEW: I Am Finally, Finally French: My Accidental Life in Brittany by Mark Greenside

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / Contemporary / First-Person / France / non-fiction2 Comments

A hilarious and heartfelt memoir of embracing life in rural France. At 47, Mark Greenside, a glass-is-half-empty native New Yorker living in California, unwillingly went to Brittany, and to his great amazement and surprise fell in love with the place and its people. Then, because love makes you crazy and ... more >

October 13, 2025

REVIEW: The Monday Night Heartbreak Club by Jane Lovering

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsalcoholism / First-Person / found family / LGBTQIA characters / self discovery / self-reformation / Yorkshire2 Comments

Is your love life a bit of a disaster? You’re not alone… When Fee finds herself drunk, dumped and directionless on Valentine’s Day, she stumbles across a flyer for a new club, for people united by heartbreak. Intrigued, she joins a motley group of strangers at a quiet Yorkshire wine ... more >

September 1, 2025

REVIEW: Valerie by Joan Smith

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviewsenemies to lovers / English countryside / First-Person / Gothic / Historical / Regency / ValkyrieComments Off on REVIEW: Valerie by Joan Smith

Because Valerie Ford is tall with lion-like eyes and hair, her aunt chooses her to come to Troy Fenners to act as model for Aunt Loo’s latest heroine, Gloria. Valerie is expected to accomplish amazing feats—and to attend séances with a distant French cousin and a handsome, though poor, scholar. ... more >

August 15, 2025

REVIEW: Love Fast by Louise Bay

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAlternate POV / Colorado / Contemporary / First-Person / runaway bride / self discovery / self made man7 Comments

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One runaway bride. One grumpy billionaire. One small town that changes everything. Rosey I never thought I’d be a runaway bride. But when it came down to it, I just couldn’t marry the wrong man. So, I ran. And somehow, I ended up in Star Falls, Colorado—stranded, no luggage, no ... more >

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