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March 17, 2020

REVIEW: Blue Skies by Anne Bustard

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren / children's fiction / family relationships / fathers and daughters / middle grade / mothers and daughters / Post WWII / second chance at love / Small-Town / Texas / widow4 Comments

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For fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very own—her father’s return home. Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. After all, her grandmother—the best matchmaker in ... more >

Gold toned cover with a picture of a beautiful red-haired woman in a creamy-gold ball gown evening dress trimmed with peach coloured flowers
February 25, 2019

REVIEW: Devil’s Daughter by Lisa Kleypas

JanineA Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren / enemies to lovers / farming / Historical / Late Victorian / reformed hero / widow16 Comments

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Dear Ms. Kleypas, Devil’s Daughter begins with Phoebe, Lady Clare (daughter of Sebastian and Evie from Devil in Winter) on her way to her brother Gabriel’s wedding. Phoebe is widowed and the mother of two young boys. Phoebe’s late husband, Henry, was her childhood best friend, and frail. Phoebe loved ... more >

Winter scene of back view of a fair-haired woman in a blue bonnet with red trim and a white dress with dark blue sleeves wearing a red cloak and holding a red rose walking toward a church in the snow
November 27, 2018

JOINT REVIEW: Someone to Trust by Mary Balogh

KaetrinB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- ReviewsBaron / England / Historical / joint review / Older-Woman-/-Younger-Man / Regency / slow burn / Westcott / widow17 Comments

Kaetrin: I admit the Westcott family tree is a little confusing to me at times so I appreciated that Balogh went back over the relevant history just enough for me to remember who Colin Handrich, Lord Hodges, was to Wren, the Countess of Riverdale and why they had been estranged ... more >

July 14, 2018

REVIEW: In Love and War by Liz Trenow

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBelgium / England / Germany / Historical / Historical fiction / post WWI / reconciliation / veterans / widow / Womens-Fiction / World War IComments Off on REVIEW: In Love and War by Liz Trenow

In the summer of 1919, British Ruby is mourning her beloved husband Bertie, missing since 1916. His grief-stricken parents ask one last task of her: travel to the Belgian battlefields to find Bertie’s grave, and with it the peace that will come with knowing his final resting place. Alice, an ... more >

March 19, 2018

REVIEW: His Convenient Marchioness by Elizabeth Rolls

JanineB Reviewschildren / historical romance / Marquess / marriage-of-convenience / Older Man/Younger Woman / Scandal / trad regency / widow / widower14 Comments

Dear Ms. Rolls, Not long ago, I saw that Kelly (Instalove) had read and recommended your new Harlequin Historical, His Convenient Marchioness. I wasn’t familiar with your writing but Kelly mentioned that she enjoyed the book and that it had a fifty-year-old hero, and between those two factors, I decided ... more >

October 18, 2017

REVIEW: The Only Woman in the Room by Rita Lakin

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / 1970s / 1980s / autobiography / female writers / feminism / Hollywood / non-fiction / television / widow4 Comments

Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings, she was literally “the only woman in the room.” In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered ... more >

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