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February 3, 2020

REVIEW: Reflections in the Nile by J. Suzanne Frank

Joanne RenaudBook Reviews / F Reviewsancient-Egypt / appropriation / Artist / Doctor / POC / racism / Time-Travel19 Comments

After entering an ancient chamber on an archaeological dig, Cloe Kingsley is sent back in time to the year 1452 B.C. to the Egyptian court of Hatshepsut and into the body of a corrupt priestess, where she is now forced to face her new environment and the challenges it holds. ... more >

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December 27, 2019

Janine’s Best of 2019

JanineA Reviews / A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists#metoo / #ownvoices / 1870s / 1920s / 1970s / accountant / Agent/Spies/Undercover / arranged-marriage / Asian heroine / Asperger's / audiobook / book editor / California / class differences / Contemporary / custody battle / dragons / enemies to lovers / epistolary / f/f / Fairyland / fake relationship / family / Fantasy / farming / friends-to-lovers / gods / heroine in disguise / high-school / historical romance / Hong Kong based world / illegitimate-child / LGBTQ / Literary fiction / London / look alikes / mafia / magical powers / Malaysia / martial arts / Mexico / nobleman / Northern Ireland / nurse / POC / POC author / political intrigue / quest / Reading lists / reformed hero / Regency-based world / romantic-elements / roommates / saga / single dad / streetwise heroine / Time-Travel / Vietnam / waitress / war19 Comments

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I was tempted to make a list of my favorites among the 2019-published books I read this year. In the end I decided to focus on my favorite 2019 reads (first time reads; I didn’t include books I had read / reviewed in prior years) without regard to their year ... more >

November 21, 2019

REVIEW: The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsalternate-reality / apocalyptic / disability / female detectives / horror / murder-investigation / NCIS / Science Fiction / time slip / Time-Travel6 Comments

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Trigger warning (spoilery): Content warning: Dear Tom Sweterlitsch, Your science fiction thriller with horror elements, The Gone World, came highly recommended by Thea at The Book Smugglers. The Book Smugglers is a site that has rarely steered me wrong, so I decided to give the book a shot, despite the ... more >

October 18, 2019

REVIEW: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / enemies to lovers / epistolary novel / f/f romantic elements / LGBTQ fiction / POC / POC author / queer heroine / Science Fiction / Time-Travel / war10 Comments

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Dear Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, One look at this 209-page time-travel novel’s blurb and I had to preorder it, so I’m reproducing that blurb here: Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. And thus begins an ... more >

February 1, 2019

REVIEW: Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsfamily relationships / SF / Time-Travel1 Comments

To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere—and any-when… Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent ... more >

August 22, 2018

REVIEW: The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / dual-timeline / England / Historical / historical paranormal / Time-Travel / Tudor-England / Womens-Fiction8 Comments

Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as ... more >

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