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December 29, 2025

REVIEW: Mrs. Walford by Brenda Tyedmers

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / addiction / Artist / epistolary / female friendship / found family / Gilded Age / Historical fiction / New York City / Nova Scotia / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

A thirty-year-old mother of two and wife of a prominent Brooklyn ship broker registers at the Queen Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, using a false name. Two weeks later she is buried in the local cemetery. Or is she? Without family or friends, health or hope, Sadie Walford arrives already ... more >

December 19, 2025

REVIEW: The Hanukkah Hook-Up by Jessica Topper

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / found family / Hanukkah / holiday novella / Jewish characters / New York City2 Comments

Meet the OG Matzo Ballers: Eight friends who became found family, living and loving their best lives on a yearly Hanukkah harbor cruise around Manhattan… It was only supposed to last for one night. Work-obsessed Nora Ruben is tired of playing by all the rules. Especially when no one else ... more >

July 1, 2025

Viscounts and Villainy (Roaring Twenties Magic #3) by Allie Theron

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / fantasy m/m romance / magic users / magical powers / New York City / Roaring Twenties MagicComments Off on Viscounts and Villainy (Roaring Twenties Magic #3) by Allie Theron

Don’t miss the conclusion to this spin-off series from Allie Therin’s acclaimed Magic in Manhattan universe! Love redeemed them, but the past isn’t done with them yet. New York, 1925 For jaded Lord Fine—Wesley, to the friends he’s surprised he now has—falling into his lover Sebastian’s world of magic and ... more >

June 20, 2025

REVIEW: Last Dance Before Dawn: A Mystery (The Nightingale Mysteries Book 4) by Katharine Schellman

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / American historical / Historical / interracial marriage / Jazz Age / LGBTQIA characters / mystery / New York City / POC / working class3 Comments

Last Dance before Dawn is the final book in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Vivian Kelly has finally created a home and a family at the glamorous speakeasy known as The Nightingale, where no one cares who you are ... more >

April 3, 2025

REVIEW: I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Fiction / First-Person / grief / Humor / New York City5 Comments

The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life’s story. Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a “far more interesting” man. Yes, he goes ... more >

February 26, 2025

REVIEW: The Lost Passenger by Frances Quinn

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1910s / class differences / First-Person / hidden identity / Historical / Historical fiction / New York City1 Comments

Sometimes it takes a disaster to change your life. Marrying above your social class can come with unexpected consequences, as Elinor Coombes discovers when she is swept into a fairy-tale marriage with the son of English aristocrats. But she realizes too late that it was the appeal of her father’s ... more >

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