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October 9, 2025

REVIEW: A Mouthful of Dust (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 6) by Nghi Vo

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAsian characters / Fantasy / horror / LGBTQIA characters / non binary / novella / POC / POC author / storytelling / The Singing Hills CycleComments Off on REVIEW: A Mouthful of Dust (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 6) by Nghi Vo

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Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo’s Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle. Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin chasing stories of a legendary famine. Amid tales of dishes served to royalty and desserts ... more >

September 26, 2025

REVIEW: The Keeper of the Western Door by Carla Kelly

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / Army / Native American / novella / POC / self discovery / Western Romance / Wyoming8 Comments

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When Mary Blue Eye travels to Wyoming Territory with her friend to help her settle into her new married life at Fort Laramie, Mary is treated more like a servant than the friend she thought she was. Thankfully, she finds a new friend in Sergeant Blade, though Mary fears that ... more >

September 5, 2025

REVIEW: Snowed by the Wallflower by Caroline Warfield

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewscountry house party / novella / RegencyComments Off on REVIEW: Snowed by the Wallflower by Caroline Warfield

Belinda Westcott doesn’t want to injure the Earl of Ridgemont. She merely wants to humiliate him. After all, one good prank deserves a payback. How could she anticipate that it would go so terribly wrong, or that he would turn out to be nothing like she expected? Skilled in both ... more >

August 1, 2025

REVIEW: Ellen Found by Carla Kelly

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewscats / found family / Historical / novella / turn of the 20th century / widower / working class / Wyoming2 Comments

Set in location of Old Faithful Inn, 1903-4. Working in a discouraging café, Ellen escapes an awful situation in rough and tumble Butte, Montana, and goes to work as second in command to a wary cook in the shell that will become Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone Park. She meets ... more >

June 23, 2025

REVIEW: Not Quite a Countess by Bliss Bennett

JayneBook Reviews / C- Reviews18th-century / Georgian Era / historical romance / London / novellaComments Off on REVIEW: Not Quite a Countess by Bliss Bennett

Five squabbling guardians. Three rivals for an earldom. And one dashing cavalryman threatening to overset it all… At fourteen, Arabella Audley inherited her father’s Scottish barony—but was denied his English earldom. Shuffled between five quarrelsome guardians for six long years while Parliament dithers over determining the Earl of Audley’s rightful ... more >

March 18, 2025

REVIEW: Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman Book 1) by Olivia Waite

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdetective / LGBTQIA characters / murder mystery / novella / Sci-fi / shipboard3 Comments

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Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective A mind is a terrible thing to erase… Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are ... more >

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