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December 15, 2022

REVIEW: Silver Pheasant: Kaifeng Chronicles, Book Four by Robert Campbell

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsbureaucracy / family relationships / Historical fiction / Historical-China / Kaifeng Chronicles / Ming dynasty / novella / POC / scholarNo Comments

In Beijing, Li Bing continues his quest to enter the imperial civil service. Dear Mr. Campbell, Well, that’s a rather uninspired blurb that barely covers a third of what goes on in this book. It’s an important third but still, much more happens in this story than that. Threads that ... more >

December 3, 2022

REVIEW: While You Sleep by Jennifer Maruno, illustrations by Miki Sato

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsArt / children's book / picture books / POC / POC author / sleep3 Comments

Recommended Read

Breathtaking collage art and exquisite rhyming couplets showcase fantastical dreams as the natural world is prepared for a new day in this gentle bedtime book. As the day ends and a little girl is put to sleep by her mother, night-helper bunnies work their magic to tidy and polish the ... more >

November 24, 2022

REVIEW: The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsLGBTQIA characters / LGBTQIA romance / LGBTQIAP+ / marriage-of-convenience / pirates / POC / POC author / politics / Sci-fi / SF / Xuya UniverseNo Comments

From the author of the Xuya universe comes a rich space opera and an intensely soft romance… When tech scavenger Xích Si is captured and imprisoned by the infamous pirates of the Red Banner, she expects to be tortured or killed. Instead, their leader, Rice Fish, makes Xích Si an ... more >

November 14, 2022

REVIEW: The View was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactress / British Indian main character / Contemporary / discrimination / fake relationship / flashbacks / friends-to-lovers / POC / publicity / tabloid journalism9 Comments

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Dear Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, I wonder if your debut novel, The View was Exhausting, was published as romantic mainstream fiction. If so it’s a romance regardless. There’s a central love story with a happy ending and emotional justice. That’s a definition of romance that works for me. The ... more >

October 27, 2022

REVIEW: The Stand-Up Groomsman by Jackie Lau

JayneBook Reviews / DNF Reviewsbisexual characters / Canada / comic / LGBTQIA characters / opposites attract / POC / POC author2 Comments

A bridesmaid and groomsman put their differences aside to get their friends down the aisle in this opposites-attract steamy romantic comedy. They say to never meet your heroes, but when Vivian Liao’s roommate gets engaged to her favorite actor’s costar, she has no choice but to come face-to-face with Melvin ... more >

October 26, 2022

REVIEW: Archangel’s Resurrection by Nalini Singh

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviewsarchangel / Epic / Guild Hunter series / paranormal romance / POC / POC author / prophecy / protective / possessive hero / resurrection / reunion / strong heroine / war52 Comments

Dear Ms. Singh, We met Alexander in Archangel’s Enigma, when he awakened after centuries of Sleeping to find that his son had been killed but he had a young grandson named after him, Xander. Zanaya is a more recent addition to the cast; though younger than Alexander, she woke from ... more >

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