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May 10, 2024

REVIEW: Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie by Jackie Lau

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsauthor heroine / Canada / cat / Chinese-Canadian MCs / fake dating / fake relationship / family drama / family relationships / First-Person / mothers and daughters / sisters / South-Asian Canadian9 Comments

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Mark Chan this. Mark Chan that. Writer and barista Emily Hung is tired of hearing about the great Mark Chan, the son of her parents’ friends. You’d think he single-handedly stopped climate change and ended child poverty from the way her mother raves about him. But in reality, he’s just ... more >

March 19, 2024

REVIEW: The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / dysfunctional family / Las Vegas / murder / sisters / Suspense / thrillerComments Off on REVIEW: The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian

THE PRINCESS IS FAKE. THE MURDERS ARE REAL • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and The Lioness, a Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder in this twisting tale of organized crime, cryptocurrency, ... more >

March 7, 2024

REVIEW: Sisters with a Side of Greens by Michelle Stimpson

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAfrican American / Contemporary / dysfunctional family / family relationships / POC / POC author / reconciliation / religion / self discovery / sisters / Texas / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: Sisters with a Side of Greens by Michelle Stimpson

Sisters Rose Tillman and Marvina Nash haven’t spoken in decades—not since Rose sent Marvina $40 to register their business and Marvina spent it on something else. Rose begins a long career at the post office and Marvina spends her weekends cooking chicken dinners for the church fundraiser. Marvina never leaves ... more >

March 1, 2024

REVIEW: The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / Dual Timelines / England / Historical / Historical fiction / mental health / painter / sistersComments Off on REVIEW: The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits. Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the daughters of one of England’s most famous portrait artists ... more >

February 2, 2024

REVIEW: The Excitements by CJ Wray

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Contemporary / Fiction / Historical fiction / older MCs / revenge / sisters / thief / thriller / timeline / veterans / War / Military / war veterans / World War II9 Comments

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A brilliant and witty drama about two brave female World War II veterans who survived the unthinkable without ever losing their killer instinct…or their joie de vivre. Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain’s most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and Penny are in huge demand, ... more >

September 25, 2023

REVIEW: Return to Embthwaite Farm (The Mowbray Sisters Book 1) by Kate Hewitt

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewschildhood friends / Contemporary / family relationships / fathers and daughters / friends-to-lovers / self discovery / sisters / The Mowbray Sisters / YorkshireComments Off on REVIEW: Return to Embthwaite Farm (The Mowbray Sisters Book 1) by Kate Hewitt

Welcome to Embthwaite Farm, a charming English home in North Yorkshire, belonging to the fractured Mowbray family… When Rachel Mowbray left behind her family farm in North Yorkshire at eighteen, she never planned on returning. But when her ex-childhood sweetheart calls and insists she return due to her father’s declining ... more >

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