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July 31, 2024

REVIEW: Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican Navy / divorcee / Dual Timelines / friends become lovers / friendship / high-school / Nebraska / single mother5 Comments

Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary. They were just friends. Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh’s porch steps, dreaming about the future. They were both going to get out of north ... more >

June 12, 2024

REVIEW: Margo’s Got Money Troubles: A Novel by Rufi Thorpe

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / dark humor / fathers and daughters / self discovery / single mother6 Comments

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A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world … As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet’s always known she’d have to make it on her ... more >

May 23, 2024

REVIEW: The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1900s / American historical / female doctor / Historical fiction / PTSD / road novels / scam / single mother / travel / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore

A downtrodden female doctor takes up with a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son, joining a German giantess, a bowlegged musician, an indentured Creek poet, and a handsome tinker under the thumb of a charismatic but menacing swindler on a collision course with the deadliest natural disaster in ... more >

February 20, 2024

REVIEW: The Trouble with You by Ellen Feldman

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / 1940s New York / 1950s / American historical / blacklist / Historical / Historical fiction / Jewish characters / self discovery / single mother / Widowed Heroine / women's rights / Womens-Fiction / Writer2 Comments

In an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethical, and the men who represent each… Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, ... more >

July 28, 2023

REVIEW: The Woman in the Castello by Kelsey James

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / actress / American heroine / estranged family / filmmaking / First-Person / Gothic / Historical / Historical fiction / Italy / secrets / single motherComments Off on REVIEW: The Woman in the Castello by Kelsey James

Set in 1960s Italy, this stylish, atmospheric debut spins a bewitching web of ruthless ambition, family secrets, and the consequences of forbidden love, as an ambitious American actress snags the starring role in a mysterious horror movie shooting on location in a crumbling medieval castle outside Rome… Readers who enjoy ... more >

July 19, 2023

REVIEW: Sinners of Starlight City by Anika Scott

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / biracial heroine / Chicago / domestic violence / found family / Historical / Historical fiction / Italy / mafia / POC / POC author / racism / revenge / Sicily / single mother1 Comments

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From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. Vengeance is in the family, and the family is a bond like no other… It’s the worst year ... more >

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