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December 8, 2021

JOINT REVIEW: The Larks Still Bravely Singing by Aster Glenn Gray

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews1910s / 1920s / amputee / anxiety / boarding school / convalescent hospital / Cornwall / disability / England / English countryside / epistolary / historical romance / infidelity / joint review / m/m romance / Oxford / trauma / World War I12 Comments

Janine: The Larks Still Bravely Singing begins when Robert Montagu and David Callahan reunite after being invalided from the battlefields of World War I. Robert and David both attended the Abbey, an English boys’ boarding school. As members of the same natural history club, they rambled along the countryside and ... more >

July 19, 2021

REVIEW: The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho x 2

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Asian heroine / baby (non secret) / epistolary / First-Person / infidelity / London / novella / POC / POC author / South-Asian / Writer11 Comments

For writer Jade Yeo, the Roaring Twenties are coming in with more of a purr. She’s perfectly happy making a living by churning out articles on what the well-dressed woman is wearing. But when she pillories one of London’s leading literary luminaries in a scathing review, she may have made ... more >

May 16, 2015

REVIEW: Vanished by E.E. Cooper

JiaC- Reviewsfemale friendship / Harper Collins / infidelity / LGBTQIA+ / missing persons / Suicide / Young-Adult1 Comments

Dear Ms. Cooper, There are books whose endings leave you breathless with their brilliance. There are books whose endings make you nod and say that was decent. And then there are books whose endings make you wonder what the heck did you just read. I’m sorry to say Vanished belongs ... more >

August 27, 2014

REVIEW: A Counterfeit Betrothal by Mary Balogh

JanineBook Reviews / C- Reviewscountess / Earl / fake-fiance / infidelity / Marriage on the rocks/reunited lovers / trad regency20 Comments

Dear Ms. Balogh, I’ve long been a fan of your traditional regencies from the 1990s and when one I hadn’t read before was recently reissued in a 2-in-1 edition with your classic The Notorious Rake, I purchased it. A Counterfeit Betrothal contains two romances each of which affects the other. ... more >

The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho
November 29, 2013

REVIEW: The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho

SunitaA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / historical romance / infidelity / London / multicultural / POC / POC author19 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Zen Cho: Back in 2012 you sent DA a blurb about your self-published novella. I remember being intrigued by the excerpt and I meant to request it, but apparently I never did. Stupid me. But it stuck in my mind, and a few months later I bought my own ... more >

October 14, 2013

Monday News: Google censorship which may be good; WH Smith in a battle over self published porn; Cheaters feel good; and the true philosophy behind the daily deal

JanePublishing Newscensorship / geographical restrictions / infidelity / pornography20 Comments

Mugged by a Mug Shot Online – Google is removing (or trying to remove) mug shot sites from search results.  Mug shot sites are those sites that cull the police blotter information about people’s arrests and then post them.  You can get your image removed for a fee.  These are ... more >

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