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July 17, 2026

REVIEW: The Beauty of Individual Things: A Prohibition-Era Love Story by K. Thomas Yoo

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews1920s / angst / class differences / family drama / First-Person / Michigan / Prohibition-era / soap operaNo Comments

The Beauty of Individual Things follows Margot Andrews, a young American woman swept from New York high society into the dazzling yet fractured world of 1920s London. When the transactional demands of privilege collide with betrayal and violence, leaving her disillusioned and adrift, she escapes to the freshwater shoreline of ... more >

March 5, 2024

REVIEW: Murder Road by Simone St. James

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1990s / married couple / Michigan / murder / murder-investigation / paranormal elements / police procedural / PTSD / secrets / thriller/suspence5 Comments

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A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the ... more >

July 11, 2023

REVIEW: The All-American by Susie Finkbeiner

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1950s / Alternate POV / Athletes / Baseball / coming-of-age / First-Person / gender equality / gender roles / Historical / Michigan / politics / sisters / Young-Adult2 Comments

Two sisters discover how much good there is in the world–even in the hardest of circumstances It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every ... more >

May 25, 2020

REVIEW x 2: Beach Read by Emily Henry

JanineC- Reviews / D Reviewsabuse survivor / authors / betrayal / book research / Contemporary / Cult / genre divide / Michigan / neighbors / wager4 Comments

Dear Emily Henry, Your debut contemporary romance had what sounded like a fun concept and a great title, so I requested an ARC from the publisher. January Andrews is a newly down-on-her-luck romance novelist. January’s boyfriend, Jacques, has recently dumped her, so she doesn’t have anywhere she can afford to ... more >

May 19, 2020

REVIEW: Beach Read by Emily Henry

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsauthor / Contemporary / dysfunctional family / enemies to lovers / family relationships / First-Person / Michigan3 Comments

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens ... more >

September 14, 2018

REVIEW: The Christmas Phoenix by Patricia Kiyono

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsholiday novella / Michigan / novella / POC author / single mother / veteran / Widowed Heroine / winterComments Off on REVIEW: The Christmas Phoenix by Patricia Kiyono

Jess Tate is trying to make a life for herself and her teenage son after her husband’s sudden death. Running the family’s struggling landscape business in Northern Michigan has been hard work, and her son hasn’t been much help. She’s managed to get by, learning to run the big equipment ... more >

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