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December 4, 2025

REVIEW: An Independent Woman by Sophia Holloway

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsdysfunctional family / Regency / Soldier / Widowed Heroine7 Comments

The newly widowed Lady Louisa Dembleby is immensely thankful to be released from an awful marriage and vows that she will never marry again. A quiet life of contented freedom with her cherished daughter lies ahead, but her resolution falters when she meets Major Benfield Barkby, recovering from serious wounds ... more >

November 21, 2025

REVIEW: A Rogue in Winter by Grace Burrowes

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistorical / holiday novella / novella / Regency / vicar / Yorkshire1 Comments

Recommended Read

Vicar Pietr Sorenson is preparing to endure–enjoy, rather–another solitary, frigid holiday season at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, when Miss Joy Danforth’s coach lurches to a halt across the village green. Joy and her brother have nowhere to wait out the impending bout of nasty weather, while the vicarage ... more >

November 14, 2025

REVIEW: The Dare and the Doctor by Kate Noble

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviewsdoctor hero / friends-to-lovers / Historical / Regency2 Comments

Dr. Rhys Gray and Miss Margaret Babcock are friends—strictly friends. But over the course of the year, as they exchange dozens of letters, they share personal details that put them on the path to something more. When Dr. Gray helps Margaret realize her dearest dream and she comes to his ... more >

Illustrated audiobook cover with a blue background and dark and light green leaves on stems decorating it except for the yellow titles and two pink birds in the centre, top and bottom, The top bird is like a sparrow and the bottom bird is like a peace dove, flying and with a sprig of pink foliage in its beak. There are also four cameo illustrations decorating the cover. At the top left is a modern man with headphones on, at the top right is a modern woman reading on a tablet, in the bottom left is a Regency man tipping his hat and in the bottom right is a Regency woman holding a letter. The cameo people and what they're holding is in bright pink and orange on a light green background.
September 18, 2025

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell, narrated by Stephanie Nemeth-Parker

KaetrinAudiobooks / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsJane Austen / Movies / NetGalley / Regency / SFF / Stephanie Nemeth-Parker / Time-Travel7 Comments

Content notes: parental death, parental illness, cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease Dear Madeline Bell, Tess Bright is an American actor who became famous on a teen sitcom “Chuck Brown”, based loosely on the Peanuts comic strip. After her mother became ill and then died, her grief led to her showing up late ... more >

September 15, 2025

REVIEW: All’s Fayre in Love and War by Sheri Cobb South

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / family relationships / governess / Historical / Regency / Widowed Heroine / widower4 Comments

Determined not to be a burden to her family, twenty-seven-year-old widow Caroline Fayre Cummings takes a position of governess to the Earl of Westermain’s motherless children in order to provide for her six-year-old son. She soon discovers, however, that something is terribly wrong in the earl’s Park Lane establishment. Lord ... more >

September 5, 2025

REVIEW: Snowed by the Wallflower by Caroline Warfield

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewscountry house party / novella / RegencyComments Off on REVIEW: Snowed by the Wallflower by Caroline Warfield

Belinda Westcott doesn’t want to injure the Earl of Ridgemont. She merely wants to humiliate him. After all, one good prank deserves a payback. How could she anticipate that it would go so terribly wrong, or that he would turn out to be nothing like she expected? Skilled in both ... more >

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