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January 19, 2021

REVIEW: Remember Me at Willoughby Close (Return to Willoughby Close Book 4) by Kate Hewitt

JayneBook Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / England / family relationships / grief / Older-Woman-/-Younger-Man / single mother / teacher / Widowed Heroine / Willoughby Close2 Comments

Laura Neale is grieving. A year after her beloved husband’s death, she’s still left with far too many questions and is struggling with feelings of guilt, anger and grief. Hoping to rebuild her and her children’s lives, she moves to Wychwood-on-Lea with her two troubled kids—an eleven-year-old son with too ... more >

January 12, 2021

REVIEW: Halfway to Harmony by Barbara O’Connor

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsbrothers / Contemporary / family relationships / Friends / Georgia / grief / middle gradeNo Comments

Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, “Let’s you and me go see my world, little man.” But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn’t know how to see the world ... more >

November 3, 2020

REVIEW: The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

JanineB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / activist / black MC / cat / election / grief / high-school / one day courtship / POC / POC author / romantic-elements / students / voting / YA10 Comments

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Dear Brandy Colbert, I’ve been meaning to read one of your books for a long time and when The Voting Booth was published I was struck by the cleverness of the concept. This romantic YA novel takes place over the course of one day—Election Day—with Marva Sheridan, an activist eighteen-year-old ... more >

Illustrated cover of a fat white woman with short brown hair sitting on a park bench holding hands with a bearded white guy dark hair, in the background of autum colours, the leaves are being blown off the trees by a high wind
July 31, 2020

REVIEW: Sweetest in the Gale by Olivia Dade

KaetrinA Reviews / A- Reviews / B Reviews / Recommended ReadsAnthology / grief / novella / teachers3 Comments

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CW: Grief, substance abuse, cancer Dear Olivia Dade, Sweetest in the Gale is an anthology featuring three novellas set in your Marysburg series set in and around Marysburg High School in Virginia (although, in the case of the last novella, the link to the high school is somewhat tenuous). Two ... more >

August 8, 2019

REVIEW: Ghost Cat by Kevan Atteberry

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewscats / children's fiction / childrens-books / grief / loss / picture books2 Comments

There is a ghost in my house. I’ve only seen it out of the corner of my eye, but I think it is a cat, says a little boy in this comforting tale of love and loss. There’s something oddly familiar about this ghost cat–it does lots of things that ... more >

July 18, 2018

REVIEW: The Accidentals by Sarina Bowen

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviewsboarding school / family-reunion / fathers and daughters / grief / Love-Triangle / musician / New Hampshire / YA / Young-Adult10 Comments

Dear Ms. Bowen, I’ve enjoyed most of your NA novels; in my opinion, you write your strongest books when you focus on coming-of-age themes. So, when I saw that your first YA novel, The Accidentals, was out, I took a chance and bought it. It’s the summer before senior year ... more >

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