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September 3, 2024

REVIEW: Saving Susy Sweetchild by Barbara Hambly

JayneBook Reviews1920s / dark academia / dysfunctional family / fish-out-of-water / Historical / historical mystery / Hollywood / Hollywood Golden Age / kidnapping / Los Angeles / Movies / silent movie4 Comments

Welcome to Hollywood of the 1920s: a world filled with glamour, fake names . . . and the occasional felony! July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young British widow Emma Blackstone is settling into her new ... more >

March 1, 2023

JOINT REVIEW: The Eidolon by K.D. Edwards

JanineB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsAce / Captivity / children / clairvoyant / joint review / kidnapping / LGBTQIAP+ / Magic / Magnus Academy / The Tarot Sequence / UF / Urban-Fantasy3 Comments

Janine: Sirius introduced me to K.D. Edwards’ Tarot Sequence series, which we both love, and we decided to review his new spinoff novella, The Eidolon, together. We’ll begin with the blurb: In the epic conclusion to K.D. Edwards’ first blockbuster trilogy in The Tarot Sequence series, readers followed Rune on ... more >

May 5, 2022

REVIEW: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / bisexual heroine / Captivity / child abuse / environmentalism / fox / Graceling Realm / kidnapping / political intrigue / queen / romantic-elements / sex positive / YA / YA fantasy4 Comments

Dear Kristin Cashore, I consider myself a fan of your YA fantasy even though not all of your books have worked for me. I really liked Graceling, the first book in the Graceling Realm series, did not much care for Fire but loved Bitterblue, and Jane Unlimited, a book separate ... more >

June 5, 2019

JOINT REVIEW: Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh

JanineB+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewschangeling / joint review / kidnapping / Paranormal / paranormal romance / PNR / POC author / psy / Psy-Changeling Series / Psy-Changeling Trinity Series / psychic powers / Shapeshifter / traumatic-past / wolf57 Comments

Wolf Rain can be viewed as either the eighteenth book in Nalini Singh’s the Psy/Changeling series, or the third book in the Psy/Changeling Trinity series. Jennie and I have reviewed six Psy/Changeling books together, so when Wolf Rain came out, it was almost a forgone conclusion that we would keep ... more >

May 17, 2018

REVIEW: Planet Dragos by Thea Harrison

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsDragon / Elder Races / kidnapping / Las Vegas / novella / PNR2 Comments

Dear Thea Harrison, I’ve been a fan of your Elder Races series ever since I read Dragon Bound back in 2011 (2011! Has it really been so long?). [That reminds me: I really need to re-read Dragon Bound] I’ve enjoyed all of the novels and novellas in the series to ... more >

June 16, 2016

JOINT REVIEW: Allegiance of Honor by Nalini Singh

JennieB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbabies / changeling / child in jeopardy / joint review / kidnapping / POC author / psy / Psy-Changeling Series / reunited-lovers30 Comments

Janine and I have done joint reviews of two previous books in the series, Tangle of Need and Shield of Winter, and when she suggested doing a joint review of the newest book, I was more than game. — Jennie Jennie: Allegiance of Honor marks the 15th (!) book in the ... more >

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