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June 2, 2025

REVIEW: Family & Other Calamities by Leslie Gray Streeter

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBaltimore / Contemporary / estranged family / interracial marriage / journalist / older MCs / POC / POC author / self discovery5 Comments

A successful journalist returns to her hometown just as her biggest mistake becomes headline news in this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt novel about facing the past, and its secrets, head-on. Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work through: a widow’s grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals ... more >

May 30, 2025

REVIEW: The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson

JayneBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / Cornwall / cozy mystery / found family / interracial marriage / LGBTQIA characters / murder mystery / self discovery3 Comments

They can’t even agree on what to read, so how are they going to solve a murder? Having recently moved from London to a small Cornish seaside village, Nova Davies started a book club at the local community center, but so far it’s a disaster. The five members disagree on ... more >

May 13, 2025

REVIEW: Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewscozy fantasy / Dark Fantasy / Magic / married couple / self discovery / The Household Gramarye series2 Comments

A hilarious and surprisingly moving cozy fantasy novel from the best-selling author of Once Upon a Tome. In a tiny farm on the edge of the miserable village of East Grasby, Isabella Nagg is trying to get on with her tiny, miserable existence. Dividing her time between tolerating her feckless ... more >

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 >

May 7, 2025

REVIEW: Shopgirls by Jessica Anya Blau

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1980s / coming-of-age / family relationships / Fiction / found family / mothers and daughters / San-Francisco / self discovery / slice of life6 Comments

… a new novel of found family, growing up, and the best and worst of the 1980s, revolving around San Francisco’s most exclusive department store, I. Magnin. Nineteen-year-old Zippy can hardly believe it: she’s the newest and youngest salesgirl at I. Magnin, “San Francisco’s Finest Department Store.” Every week, she ... more >

September 25, 2024

REVIEW: A Golden Life by Ginny Kubitz Moyer

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactress / Boss-Secretary / fathers and daughters / Historical / Historical fiction / Hollywood Golden Age / self discovery / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: A Golden Life by Ginny Kubitz Moyer

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Embark on a journey to 1930s California in Ginny Kubitz Moyer’s spellbinding historical novel in which a woman must choose between friendship and her own secrets. It’s 1938, and twenty-five-year-old secretary Frances Healey is ready for a fresh start. Hoping to forget her painful past, she takes a job working ... more >

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