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August 14, 2026

REVIEW: The Dungeon Book by Gareth Hanrahan

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsadult fiction / Dark Fantasy / Dragon / First-Person / found family / High Fantasy3 Comments

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A young girl is left to die in a wizard’s dungeon but finds a new home with the monsters around her in this humorous and heartfelt standalone epic fantasy from acclaimed author Gareth Hanrahan. Enter a world of dungeons and dragons, magic and manticores, and goblins and gargoyles … Bait ... more >

August 11, 2026

REVIEW: You’ll Love It Here: A Novel – Sharply Funny Contemporary Fiction of Found Family, Nosy Neighbors, and Starting Over by Natalie Sue

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsadult fiction / Canada / Contemporary / First-Person / found family / neighbors / self discovery6 Comments

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From the bestselling author of I Hope This Finds You Well comes a sharply funny, surprisingly tender novel about a woman stuck in place, her nosy neighbors, and the journey to find where she belongs—with all the heart of a grown-up The Breakfast Club. Mona thought her living situation was ... more >

July 21, 2026

REVIEW: Deadly Does It (A Mason & Mann Mystery Book 2) by Abbi Waxman

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsactor/actress / addiction / alcoholism / Contemporary / found family / Los Angeles / murder mysteryNo Comments

When Natasha Mason’s AA sponsor is in deadly danger, she turns to the cranky yet brilliant Julia Mann for help, in this exciting new mystery novel from the USA Today bestselling author of One Death at a Time. Mason, a Gen Z adrenaline junkie, and Mann, an ex-con, ex-actress, and ... more >

July 13, 2026

REVIEW: Single Girls: A Novel About Helen Gurley Brown and the Women Who Revolutionized Cosmopolitan Magazine in the 1960s by John Searles

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / found family / gender inequality / gender roles / Historical / LGBTQIA characters / magazines / novelization / NYC / older couple / POC / Womens-Fiction7 Comments

An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time. In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, a soft spoken, ... more >

May 28, 2026

REVIEW: Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsadult fiction / dystopian / Fiction / found family / Post apocalytpic / robots / Sci-fi4 Comments

In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, forty years after the world nearly ended, a worn-out robot is attacked, and realizes old evils are stirring Wrestling with themes of loneliness, connection, and purpose, this hope-punk sci-fi is for fans of Becky Chambers’s Monk & Robot duology—featuring a cyborg dog! Thirty ... more >

May 13, 2026

REVIEW: You Can’t Hurry Second Chances by Michelle Stimpson

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAfrican American / Afro-Latina / cooking / divorcee / found family / older woman / older woman/younger woman / POC / POC author / self discovery / Texas / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

A heartwarming small-town tale of rediscovering joy in unexpected places. Starting over isn’t easy, but sometimes it’s exactly what we need. Newly divorced and determined to prove she can stand on her own, Joyce Hicks moves back to small-town Texas, leaving behind the life she has known for decades for ... more >

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