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March 27, 2024

REVIEW: Matzah Ball Blues (Holidays, Heart and Chutzpah Book 2) by Jennifer Wilck

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / family relationships / Harlequin / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Passover / second chance at love / slow burn2 Comments

Why is this night different from all other nights? For starters, Jared Leiman is home for the holidays. Because though he and Caroline Weiss were high school sweethearts, their postcollege lives took them in different directions. Jared became a big-time entertainment lawyer in LA, while Caroline became a fitness instructor ... more >

December 29, 2023

REVIEW: By Sword and Fan by Kathleen Buckley

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1740s / England / family relationships / Historical / older heroine and hero / second chance at loveComments Off on REVIEW: By Sword and Fan by Kathleen Buckley

Margaret is her brothers’ dependent. With her sister-in-law expecting another child and her younger brother soon to marry, Margaret will lose her home. When her former suitor offers her work as a governess, she accepts, despite misgivings. Unable to marry his first love, Alasdair abandoned his home for a disappointing ... more >

November 30, 2023

REVIEW: Yet Love Remains by Mary Burchell

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1970s / angsty / co-respondent / divorce / England / female friendship / Historical / second chance at love8 Comments

To fall for Charles is the last thing Helen expected … but will her lies cost her the love of her life? England, 1970s When Helen Debenham agrees to help her friend Sylvia out of her unhappy marriage to the famous playwright Charles Lane, the last thing she expects is ... more >

November 17, 2023

REVIEW: The Captain’s Old Love by Mary Lancaster

JayneBook Reviews / C- Reviewscon man / enemies to lovers / family series / former military / Historical / Regency / second chance at love / smuggling3 Comments

His dashing days are behind him – until an old flame dances back into his life. A hero of Trafalgar and many battle since, Captain Julius Vale, has retired from the Royal Navy and moved himself and all his siblings back to the family home near Blackhaven. Here, wounded and ... more >

August 24, 2023

REVIEW: Home for the Challah Days (Holidays, Heart and Chutzpah Book 1) by Jennifer Wilck

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsanti-Semitism / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Rosh Hashanah / second chance at love / Yom Kippur6 Comments

Recommended Read

Turning the bitterness of the past… Into a sweet future! When big-city advocate Sarah Abrams returns home for the High Holy Days, she’s got a lot on her mind—especially whether to marry her perfect-on-paper boyfriend. The last person she wants to encounter is Aaron Isaacson, her first love and the ... more >

June 16, 2023

REVIEW: Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbullying / Canada / Dual Timelines / enemies to lovers / family relationships / female friendship / grumpy / sunshine / hijabi / immigrant fiction / Muslim / POC / POC author / second chance at love / South-Asian / South-Asian Canadian / TorontoComments Off on REVIEW: Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother’s unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it’s a far cry from ... more >

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