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October 25, 2018

REVIEW: Cupcakes for Christmas by Kate Hewitt

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsbaker / category length / Christmas / Contemporary / England / mental health / musician / older heroine and hero / Willoughby Close3 Comments

Always the baker, never the bride… Olivia James has always been happy running a tea shop and bakery in the Cotswold village of Wychwood-on-Lea, and helping her friends find their happily-ever-afters, topped by the perfect wedding cake. But as Christmas approaches, Olivia is home alone and questioning her choices while ... more >

June 27, 2018

REVIEW: The Museum of Us by Tara Wilson Redd

JayneBook Reviews / C ReviewsFirst-Person / mental health / mental illness / YA / Young-AdultComments Off on REVIEW: The Museum of Us by Tara Wilson Redd

Secrets are con artists: they trick you into letting them out. Sadie loves her rocker boyfriend Henry and her running partner and best friend Lucie, but no one can measure up to her truest love and hero, the dazzling and passionate George. George, her secret. When something goes wrong and ... more >

October 12, 2017

REVIEW: A Vicarage Christmas by Kate Hewitt

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / England / family relationships / holiday novella / Holley Sisters of Thornthwaite / mental health / novella / religion / shy heroine1 Comments

Welcome to Thornwaite, a quaint village tucked up in England’s beautiful but rainy Lake District… where homecomings happen and surprises are in store for the four Holley sisters… Anna Holley, the third of four sisters, has always felt a little bit forgotten. A family tragedy when she was a child ... more >

May 12, 2017

REVIEW: Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Historical / mental health / nurse / Paranormal / post WWI / PTSD / retired military / turn of the 20th century / War / Military7 Comments

In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, ... more >

December 13, 2016

REVIEW: Forever a Soldier by Genevieve Turner

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsCalifornia / Contemporary / graduate student / mental health / Turkey / veteranComments Off on REVIEW: Forever a Soldier by Genevieve Turner

A wounded soldier searching for healing… Hank Moreno returned home from combat not quite broken but definitely battered. His job now is to recover from his tour of duty and to keep a hundred-year-old house from falling down around his ears. No one calls, no one visits—just as he likes. ... more >

October 28, 2014

Being crazy: An insider’s view on ableist language

Guest ReviewerLetters of Opinionableism / appropriation / genre critique / mental health / representation63 Comments

[themify_box style=”light-yellow rounded ” ]Kris used to review and blog on book related things before RL intervened in big, scary ways. Now she tends to somewhat vaguely hang out on Twitter, comment *very* infrequently on reading matters that pique her interest and talk about her mental health journey on tumblr ... more >

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