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May 12, 2025

REVIEW: The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsdeath / Fiction / grief / mentorship / middle grade / PTSD / self discoveryComments Off on REVIEW: The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner

Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing. One summer. 46 mountain peaks. A second chance to make things right. Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger ... more >

March 27, 2025

REVIEW: The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree by India Hayford

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / dysfunctional family / family relationships / PTSD / revenge / Southern Gothic / strong women / war veterans2 Comments

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Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she’s wandered throughout the South, escaping a mental hospital in Alabama, working for a Louisiana circus, and dancing at a hoochy-kootch in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she’s allowed her winding ... more >

Cover in bluey purple, showing a woman runing toward an old house similar to one you'd find in the French Quarter of New Orleans, with iron scrollwork
August 26, 2024

REVIEW: Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose

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Dear Karen Rose, Cora Jane Winslow’s father disappeared when she was nearly five years old, 23 years ago. She, her brother and her mother, believed that he had run off with another woman. Cora had been receiving letters from her dad on and off for years. But two weeks before ... more >

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July 18, 2024

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JayneA- Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsADHD / ancient-Egypt / archeology / cats / forensics / graphic novels / History / non-fiction / Paris / photography / PTSD / Reading lists / Tudor-England6 Comments

Ancient Egypt: A Photographic History by Nigel Fletcher-Jones First appearing around the mighty River Nile in the fourth millennium BC, Ancient Egypt is one of the great wellsprings of human civilization. Egyptian culture developed around a complex system of religious rituals tied to the agricultural seasons, with the pharaoh a ... more >

May 23, 2024

REVIEW: The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1900s / American historical / female doctor / Historical fiction / PTSD / road novels / scam / single mother / travel / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore

A downtrodden female doctor takes up with a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son, joining a German giantess, a bowlegged musician, an indentured Creek poet, and a handsome tinker under the thumb of a charismatic but menacing swindler on a collision course with the deadliest natural disaster in ... more >

March 5, 2024

REVIEW: Murder Road by Simone St. James

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1990s / married couple / Michigan / murder / murder-investigation / paranormal elements / police procedural / PTSD / secrets / thriller/suspence5 Comments

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A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the ... more >

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