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March 11, 2020

What Janine is Reading and Listening to, Fall 2019

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF Reviews#ownvoices / 18th-century / brothel / Earl / English countryside / high-school / Korean American / London / murder mystery / POC / POC author / prostitute / Reading lists / Regency Romance / YA5 Comments

Death and the Harlot by Georgina Clarke I read 39% of this book historical mystery set in mid-eighteenth century London before quitting. The period detail seems quite good and the book is pretty page-turning but unfortunately, the heroine’s motivations don’t make sense. Lizzie Hardwicke is a sex worker in a ... more >

February 7, 2015

REVIEW: The Forgetting by Nicole Maggi

JiaB- ReviewsBoston / prostitute / sex trafficking / SourceBooks / Young-Adult2 Comments

Dear Ms. Maggi, Your novel, The Forgetting, has a familiar premise if you watch lots of horror movies. Person needs an organ transplant. They get it. Then the person begins to catch glimpses of the donor’s life and discovers the donor may have been murdered. Georgie’s story has less of ... more >

December 5, 2014

REVIEW and GIVEAWAY: Heart of a Dove by Abbie Williams

JayneB- Reviews19th century / American historical / First-Person / Historical / prostitute / Reconstruction3 Comments

Set in post Civil War America, the story follows Lorie Blake, a southern orphan sold into prostitution at fifteen. Two years have passed, leaving her with little hope of anything more. Meanwhile, three longtime friends and a boy with a heart of gold are traveling northward, planning to rebuild their ... more >

December 4, 2014

REVIEW: Transgression by Theo Fenraven

KaetrinB- Reviewsactor / bisexual / Contemporary / Hollywood / prostitute / queer / trans5 Comments

Dear Theo Fenraven, I bought this book after it came highly recommended to me when I expressed a wish to read more diverse romance. I’m glad to have read it, even though parts of the story didn’t entirely work for me. Your writing style is very engaging and I found ... more >

January 20, 2014

REVIEW x 2: The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin

JanineA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsclass-difference / Historical-China / POC / POC author / prostitute / Recommended Read / scholar16 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Ms. Lin, Although I had purchased most of your novels, I hadn’t picked one out of my TBR pile to read since your debut, Butterfly Swords. Clearly, it was a mistake to wait so long to try one of your books again, because your most recent novel, The Lotus ... more >

November 25, 2013

REVIEW: All In With the Duke by Ava March

WillafulC+ ReviewsEngland / Long Regency / m/m / prostitute16 Comments

Dear Ms. March: One of the reasons I enjoy historical m/m — other than the Reese’s peanut butter cup of two favorite genres put together — is that there’s potential for great angst when the stakes are so high. The prologue of this novel, in which a duke is blackmailed ... more >

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