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Jennie
March 9, 2022

Reading List by Jennie for October 2021 through December 2021

JennieBook ReviewsComedy / horror / Memoir / mystery / Reading lists / Suspense10 Comments

The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins This was the first of my two short Halloween reads. Like most of my Halloween reads, it wasn’t particularly scary. The story opens with the Countess Narona visiting a doctor in London, and recounting a strange story about her meeting her fiance’s jilted lover. ... more >

October 25, 2021

Review: Chrysalis (The Formicary #1) by S.E. Harmon

SiriusB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsamnesia / m/m romance / Suspense5 Comments

A gunshot to the head is bad enough. Waking up with amnesia is far worse. I learn that the hard way when I wake up in the hospital, my memory practically wiped. I don’t know why someone wants me dead. Hell, I don’t even know my name. They say my ... more >

August 26, 2021

Review: Bodyguard (The Bodyguards #1) by Dassy Bernhard

SiriusB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ ReviewsAsian characters / bisexual characters / Korea / m/m / POC / SFF / Suspense2 Comments

How was he supposed to know that the real-life chairman looked like an actor playing one on TV? When bodyguard Tang Jun-young saves his clients, a world-famous K-pop boyband, from being kidnapped by stopping the getaway van with his own body, he’s worried that his secret—well, one of them—will be ... more >

Jennie
August 3, 2021

Reading List by Jennie for April through June

JennieBook Reviews / Reading ListsAnthology / classic literature / Domestic Suspense / dystopian / Essays / Historical fiction / History / murder mystery / Reading lists / Suspense10 Comments

Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore I went into this knowing nothing about it but the name. It ended up being a bit of a slog, for a few reasons: dialogue rendered in impenetrable dialect, a lot of blah blah blah musings, and the fact that I didn’t really like the ... more >

May 28, 2021

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner, read by Elsa Lepecki Bean

JanineBook Reviewsanti-Semitism / audiobook / baronet / bisexual characters / England / Gothic / governess / Jane Eyre / Jewish heroine / Judaism / LGBTQIA+ / love triangles / mental health / Portugal / prisoners / PTSD / pyrophobia / Regency / Retelling / romantic-elements / Suspense2 Comments

Trigger warnings: Dear Rose Lerner, I stopped listening to your new audiobook, an Audible Original titled The Wife in the Attic, at 74% for reasons detailed below. It pains me to say this, not only because I’ve enjoyed some of your previous books but because I like you and because ... more >

Jennie
May 3, 2021

Reading List by Jennie for January through March 2021

JennieBook ReviewsMemoir / mystery / POC author / Reading lists / Suspense9 Comments

Usually I have more books on my quarterly reading list, but in addition to the five books here, I read and reviewed seven other books: The Trials of Koli,  Quiet in Her Bones, Overnight Sensation and Superfan, Book of Love, The Fall of Koli, and An Unexpected Peril All Creatures ... more >

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