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April 6, 2023

CONVERSATION: May/December Age Differences, Part II — Recommendations and Examples

JanineBook Reviewsage gap / May-December / older woman/younger man17 Comments

Possible triggers Yesterday we discussed big age differences in romance. Here is the second part of that discussion, where we talk about specific examples of the trope. What is the most recent book you’ve read that featured a significant age difference between the main characters, and how did you feel ... more >

April 5, 2023

CONVERSATION: May/December: Where We Talk About Age Differences

JanineBook Reviews / ConversationsHistory / May-December / older woman/younger man / trigger warnings25 Comments

Trigger Warning: Child Rape Janine: I’ve been thinking lately about age gaps in romance. When I started reading romances in the 1980s, May/December pairings were quite common, with the MCs often being a decade apart in age. Queer romances were almost unheard of in mainstream publishing, self-publishing was expensive, and ... more >

November 27, 2020

REVIEW: Archangel’s Sun by Nalini Singh

JanineB- Reviews / Book ReviewsAfrica / archangel / Artist / black hero / disease / Guild Hunter series / older woman/younger man / PNR / POC / POC author / single mother / traumatic-past / zombies22 Comments

Dear Nalini Singh, In Archangel’s War, the last book in your Guild Hunter series, Illium’s father, the archangel Aegaeon, awoke from Sleeping. His return caused a seismic shift in Illium’s mother, Sharine, otherwise known as the Hummingbird. After centuries spent in emotional pain and in and out of a fog, ... more >

April 9, 2019

REVIEW: The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman

JayneB Reviews Category / Book Reviews1960s / Auschwitz / Australia / bookseller / family relationships / Historical / Holocaust / Hungary / Jewish characters / older woman/younger man3 Comments

Can one unlikely bookshop heal two broken souls? It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can’t make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he’s ever met–she’s passionate, brilliant, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown’s first bookshop. Despite the ... more >

April 27, 2018

REVIEW: House of Cads by Elizabeth Kingston

JanineB Reviews / B+ ReviewsArtist / con-artist / Frenchwoman / historical romance / older woman/younger man / Regency England3 Comments

Dear Ms. Kingston, Two years ago, I reviewed your Regency era historical romance, A Fallen Lady. Although the novel wasn’t perfect, it was memorable and emotional. Recently, I heard there was a sequel in the wings, and I wasted no time in requesting an a review copy. House of Cads ... more >

By the Hour Roni Loren
September 21, 2017

Review: By the Hour by Roni Loren

Sahara HoshiBook Reviews / C ReviewsBDSM / Erotic-Romance / male escort / older woman/younger man / redemption3 Comments

Dear Ms. Loren, I picked up By the Hour because I enjoyed your first Pleasure Principle book, Off the Clock. I was surprised that Elle McCray, the purported villainess and rival of the heroine, Marin, in Off the Clock was going to be the main heroine, but I rolled with ... more >

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