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April 6, 2026

REVIEW: The Last Letters of Sally and Walter by Cammie McGovern

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsboard games / family relationships / father and son / health care / mental health / mother and son / mothers and daughters / older characters / older MCs3 Comments

With the tenacious spirit of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and the long-lived verve of Thursday Murder Club comes a heartwarming story of a curmudgeon and a newcomer who strike up an unlikely friendship over cutthroat Scrabble at their retirement home, outrageously starting something new in their golden eras. As a ... more >

December 2, 2025

REVIEW: Fun City Heist by Michael Kardos

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / fathers and daughters / friendship / heist / LGBTQIA characters / Musicians / older MCs2 Comments

Mo Melnick used to be a drummer in rock band Sunshine Apocalypse. He used to be someone. These days he rents beach umbrellas on the Jersey Shore. The last thing he expects is for Johnny Clay, his old bandmate turned enemy, to ask him a favor. Johnny’s dying, and before ... more >

October 21, 2025

REVIEW: Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsadult fiction / Dark Fantasy / found family / horror / Humor / older MCs / Paranormal / Satire / Urban-Fantasy2 Comments

Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time Three former Chosen Ones have joined together to spend their retirement in peace and quiet, running Second Life Books ... more >

June 2, 2025

REVIEW: Family & Other Calamities by Leslie Gray Streeter

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBaltimore / Contemporary / estranged family / interracial marriage / journalist / older MCs / POC / POC author / self discovery5 Comments

A successful journalist returns to her hometown just as her biggest mistake becomes headline news in this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt novel about facing the past, and its secrets, head-on. Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work through: a widow’s grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals ... more >

May 6, 2025

REVIEW: The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdark humor / Fiction / marriage on the rocks / married couple / mystery / older MCs / thriller4 Comments

Recommended Read

THEY’D KILL TO BE WIDOWS. Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darklyfunny debut that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist. After thirty years of friendship, Pam ... more >

July 19, 2024

REVIEW: How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsactor / adult fiction / community / Contemporary / Fiction / flawed characters / found family / Humor / London / older MCs / single dad / thief7 Comments

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor ... more >

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