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June 22, 2017

REVIEW: Hidden Hearts by Olivia Dade

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / disabled character / eating disorders / Interracial / librarian / Libraries / Maryland / POC5 Comments

Recommended Read

AN ADMIRER WITH A SECRET . . . Mary Higgs could be the poster girl for the buttoned-up librarian. She follows the rules. Stays ’til closing. Her kindness and dedication to her patrons is legendary. But those patrons have no idea what she’s typing to the mysterious shut-in who emailed ... more >

May 4, 2017

REVIEW: Behind the Curtain by Beth Kery

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Interracial / Morocco2 Comments

Dear Beth Kery, Behind the Curtain begins in present day, when Asher Gaites returns home to Chicago for a brief time from his journalistic assignments in the Middle East. He is shortly to take up a new post as Head of the European Desk for a newspaper in London. In ... more >

September 8, 2016

REVIEW: Sunshine on a Rainy Day by Bryony Fraser

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / England / estranged marriage / family relationships / Interracial / London / marriage on the rocks2 Comments

It’s Zoe and Jack’s first wedding anniversary party. They’ve got an announcement! They’re getting divorced. Marriage isn’t for everyone – something that Zoe and Jack discovered only after they’d walked down the aisle. Bad timing, huh? So now they’re stuck together in their once harmonious marital home, neither one of ... more >

January 4, 2015

REVIEW: Softly Falling by Carla Kelly

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican historical / cowboy / Historical / Interracial / POC / teacher / western13 Comments

Lily looked at the vastness of the plains, full of cattle, and then up at the sky without a cloud in sight. “What’s going to happen, Mr. Sinclair?” she asked. “What do you know?” Fresh off the train from New York City, Lily Carteret arrives in picturesque Wyoming only to ... more >

June 29, 2014

REVIEW: The Sultan’s Wife by Jane Johnson

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / England / Historical / Interracial / Morocco / POC / Romance/Multicultural Romance / slavery2 Comments

Morocco, 1677. The tyrannical King Ismail resides over the palace of Meknes. Through the sweltering heat of the palace streets, Nus Nus, slave to the King and forced into his live of servitude as court scribe, is sent to the apothecary. There he discovers the bloody corpse of the herb ... more >

February 21, 2013

REVIEW: The Lady Who Broke the Rules by Marguerite Kaye

SunitaBook Reviews / C ReviewsHarlequin / historical romance / Interracial / multicultural / POC / Regency England / Series37 Comments

Dear Ms. Kaye: While I’m afraid I’m getting burned out on traditional European historicals, I’m always looking for novels with a different setting or unusual characters, and this book certainly fit the bill. It’s set in Regency England and is part of Harlequin Historical’s Castonbury Park series; the hero is ... more >

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