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March 23, 2021

REVIEW: Paladin’s Strength (The Saint of Steel Book 2) by T. Kingfisher

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsLGBTQIA characters / military hero / mystery / Paranormal / paranormal romance / plus size / Serial-Killer / Shapeshifter / The Saint of Steel series12 Comments

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He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters. When their paths cross at the point of a sword, Istvhan and Clara will be ... more >

July 6, 2020

REVIEW: The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews1880s / Angel / fanfic / Fantasy / friendship / Late Victorian / London / murder mystery / queer characters / Shapeshifter / Sherlock Holmes24 Comments

Dear Katherine Addison, Your steampunk fantasy novel, The Goblin Emperor, was my second favorite book of 2014 (my favorite being Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel). The Goblin Emperor held a tinge of melancholy, but also of hopefulness, and the balance of the two made the reading experience an ... more >

June 5, 2019

JOINT REVIEW: Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh

JanineB+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewschangeling / joint review / kidnapping / Paranormal / paranormal romance / PNR / POC author / psy / Psy-Changeling Series / Psy-Changeling Trinity Series / psychic powers / Shapeshifter / traumatic-past / wolf57 Comments

Wolf Rain can be viewed as either the eighteenth book in Nalini Singh’s the Psy/Changeling series, or the third book in the Psy/Changeling Trinity series. Jennie and I have reviewed six Psy/Changeling books together, so when Wolf Rain came out, it was almost a forgone conclusion that we would keep ... more >

April 12, 2019

REVIEW x 2: Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh

JanineA Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended ReadsAssassin Hero / changeling / Paranormal / POC author / psy / Psy-Changeling Series / Shapeshifter / traumatic-past / wolf4 Comments

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Dear Ms. Singh, A group of readers are rereading all the books in the Psy/Changeling series and discussing them on Twitter in preparation for the release of Wolf Rain. I don’t have time to reread all twenty, but I decided to read a handful of old favorites—and Caressed by Ice, ... more >

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May 9, 2018

What Janine is Reading: Patricia Briggs’s Mercyverse, Part I

JanineA Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews / Reading ListsAlpha & Omega / demons / mechanic / Mercy-Thompson / Mercyverse / Montana / Reading lists / Shapeshifter / trigger warnings / UF / Urban-Fantasy / vampires / Washington State / werewolves / witch15 Comments

Recently, I reviewed Patricia Briggs’s latest entry in the Alpha and Omega series, Burn Bright. When it came up in the comments that although I’m an avid follower of Charles and Anna, I had only read the first of the Mercy books, readers persuaded me to read further on in ... more >

August 24, 2015

REVIEW: The Wolf Hunt by Gillian Bradshaw

JayneA- Reviews / Recommended ReadsFrance / Historical / Knights / medieval / Paranormal / Shapeshifter / wolf10 Comments

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Betrayal, love, and lycanthropy in the time of the Crusades When Marie Penthièvre of Chalendrey is abducted from her Norman priory and taken to Brittany’s court, she vows never to dishonor her family’s ties by marrying a Breton brute. There is only one man who might change her mind: Tiarnán ... more >

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