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June 18, 2026

REVIEW: The Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal, and Escape during World War II by Greg Lewis

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBelgium / non-fiction / resistance/oppression / War / Military / World War II6 Comments

The heart-racing true story of the heroic rescue of Allied airmen from a Nazi prison train after a devastating betrayal. In the final hours before the liberation of Brussels in 1944, the Germans loaded more than 1,400 members of the Resistance, SOE agents, and Allied airmen onto a train bound ... more >

July 16, 2025

REVIEW: Roads of Resistance (Falcon Point Historical, #2) by A. L. Sowards

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / bittersweet / Historical fiction / Netherlands / Post WWII / resistance/oppression / War / Military / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: Roads of Resistance (Falcon Point Historical, #2) by A. L. Sowards

1940 After her father is murdered, fifteen-year-old Ingrid Lang flees her home in Austria only to become separated from her siblings and stranded in the Dutch city of Arnhem with a pair of broken legs. Her future would be bleak if not for the kindness of a local doctor and ... more >

June 5, 2025

REVIEW: The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp by Lynne Olson

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / female friendship / France / History / non-fiction / resistance/oppression / survival / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp by Lynne Olson

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The extraordinary true story of a small group of Frenchwomen, all Resistance members, who banded together in a notorious concentration camp to defy the Nazis Decades after the end of World War II, the name Ravensbrück still evokes horror for those with knowledge of this infamous all-women’s concentration camp, better ... more >

March 12, 2024

REVIEW: The Woman with No Name by Audrey Blake

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / espionage / France / Historical / novelization / older woman / resistance/oppression / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: The Woman with No Name by Audrey Blake

She’ll light the fire of resistance—but she may get burned… 1942. Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat’s life is over. She’s estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonne—older, diminutive, overlooked—has lost all purpose. Until she’s offered a chance to ... more >

September 22, 2022

REVIEW: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / dreams / Emperor / experimental novel / Fantasy / goddess / LGBTQIAP+ / m/m / POC / POC author / quest / resistance/oppression / second-person POV4 Comments

Dear Simon Jimenez, Your debut novel, The Vanished Birds (2020), is one of my favorite science fiction novels of recent years. It earned an A from me when I reviewed it and made my Best of 2020 list. I’ve been waiting with bated breath for the release of The Spear ... more >

July 7, 2021

REVIEW: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

JanineA Reviews / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / Burning Kingdoms series / enemies to lovers / f/f romance / Fantasy / gods / India-based world / LGBTQIAP+ / magical powers / POC / POC author / prisoners / resistance/oppression / South-Asian6 Comments

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Dear Tasha Suri, After enjoying Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash, your earlier duo of romantic fantasy novels set in an India-based world, I decided to request an ARC of The Jasmine Throne, the first novel in your new Burning Kingdoms trilogy. Priya is a servant in the regent’s ... more >

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