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February 18, 2021

REVIEW: This Party’s Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World’s Death Festivals by Erica Buist

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviewsdeath / England / funeral / Indonesia / Japan / Madagascar / Mexico / multicultural / Nepal / non-fiction / Sicily / Thailand / USA3 Comments

Journalist Erica Buist travels to seven death festivals around the world (Nepal, Madagascar, Indonesia, Sicily, Japan, Mexico and New Orleans) in search of better attitudes towards death After the death of her father-in-law, journalist Erica Buist decided to travel to seven death festivals around the world, in an attempt to ... more >

July 24, 2020

REVIEW: Open House: A Rivalry Romance (Uptown Book 2) by Ruby Lang

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAfro-Latina / Asian Americans / Boricua / Contemporary / family relationships / multicultural / multicultural romance / New York City / POC / POC author / Uptown Book seriesComments Off on REVIEW: Open House: A Rivalry Romance (Uptown Book 2) by Ruby Lang

Love can take root where you least expect it. Tyson Yang never imagined that one day he’d be the de facto spokesperson for an illegal community garden. But when the once-rat-infested-but-now-thriving Harlem lot goes up for sale, Ty can’t just let all their hard work get plowed under. Even if ... more >

illustrated over in teal, featuring a polaroid type photo in the bottom left, of a F/M couple, both of colour
April 21, 2020

REVIEW: Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / disordered eating / Edelweiss / interracial-romance / mental illness / multicultural / panic disorder / POC / POC author / PTSD5 Comments

CW: Emotional abuse. Depiction of mental illness, including panic attacks, flashbacks and nightmares. Disordered eating is also mentioned/suggested. Dear Alisha Rai, I loved The Right Swipe last year and ever since have been looking forward to Katrina’s story in Girl Gone Viral. Katrina King-Arora, a Thai-American, is a former supermodel ... more >

November 25, 2019

REVIEW: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

JanineB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews#ownvoices / ableism / beautiful food / biracial hero / brain tumor / California / Chef / Contemporary / diversity / Indian American / multicultural / POC / POC author / Pride-and-Prejudice / Retelling / surgeonComments Off on REVIEW: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

Trigger / content warnings: Dear Sonali Dev, As is evident from its title, your recent novel, the start of a series about the Raje family, is a retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I know what some readers of this review must be thinking: Does the world really need ... more >

June 4, 2019

REVIEW: A Touch of Forever by Jo Goodman

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsabuse survivor / American historical / domestic abuse / Historical / Jealousy / law-enforcement / marriage-of-convenience / multicultural / Sheriff / turn of the 20th century / western / Western Romance / Widowed Heroine2 Comments

Lily Salt has sworn off men. After finally gaining her independence, the last thing she needs is another man telling her what to do. But the handsome railroad engineer from New York isn’t at all what she expected. He’s kind, gentle…and tempting enough to make her wonder what a second ... more >

January 30, 2018

REVIEW x 2: The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / interracial-romance / long distance relationship / multicultural / POC / POC author3 Comments

A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty debut novel. Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn’t normally do. But there’s ... more >

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