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January 11, 2023

Kaetrin’s Best of 2022

KaetrinNeed A Rec! / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsBest of 2022 / Contemporary / historical mystery / male male romance / non-fiction / queer / science history / SFF10 Comments

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My reading year was up and down – a big slump in the middle didn’t help and the stress of moving house right near the end of the year meant I turned to comfort reads for the last 2 months or so. (In this time I read Kristen Ashley books ... more >

November 2, 2022

REVIEW: In the Family Way by Sheri Cobb South

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdysfunctional family / family relationships / Historical / historical mystery / John Pickett mysteries series / murder mystery / Regency3 Comments

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With a beautiful and clever wife, a growing investigative business, and a baby due any day, former Bow Street Runner John Pickett finally has a respectable life far removed from his beginnings as a juvenile pickpocket in the rookeries of St. Giles. Then his father returns from transportation to Botany ... more >

July 27, 2022

REVIEW: Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis

JayneBook Reviewsactors / ancient-Rome / female detectives / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder mystery / murder-investigation / Private-investigatorComments Off on REVIEW: Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis

In Lindsey Davis’s next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of ... more >

January 27, 2022

REVIEW: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

JennieB Reviews / Book Reviewsfantasy/scifi / Historical fiction / historical mystery / Scotland / young adult fiction4 Comments

I’ve read two previous books by Dana Schwartz, Choose Your Own Disaster and The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon. Both were non-fiction(ish?) – the first a memoir with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” conceit and the second a satirical look at famous authors from ... more >

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December 9, 2021

Reading List by Jennie for July through September

JennieBook Reviews / Reading ListsBiography / classic fiction / Essays / historical mystery / historical romance / psychological thriller / Reading lists / Regency Romance13 Comments

Romola by George Eliot This is one of the last George Eliot books I had unread. I’ll confess that early on I thought about dumping it, but I persevered. As a book written in the 19th century about the 15th century and centered quite a lot on philosophy and the ... more >

September 16, 2021

REVIEW: Death Can Be Habit-Forming by Sheri Cobb South

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / family relationships / Historical / historical mystery / John Pickett mysteries series / London / murder mystery / Regency8 Comments

Having resigned his position at Bow Street in disgrace (at least in his own mind) and failed in his attempt to establish himself as a private agent, John Pickett toils away at a tedious job as a clerk in the City. When he is approached by a man wishing to ... more >

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