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August 26, 2025

REVIEW: Dream by Barbara O’Connor

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren's book / found family / friendship / middle grade / North-Carolina / WriterComments Off on REVIEW: Dream by Barbara O’Connor

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The highly anticipated follow up to Wish, which has spent six years on the New York Times bestseller list and is beloved by over two million readers. Dream follows a small town girl with big aspirations who discovers that anything is possible with your best friends and an adorable pup ... 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 >

December 7, 2022

What Janine is Reading: The Devils Series by Elizabeth O’Roark, Books One and Two

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF Reviews / Reading Listsboss/secretary / celebrity / forbidden-love / France / Hawaii / Los Angeles / Reading lists / rock stars / Somalia / star-crossed lovers / surgeon / Writer19 Comments

In September and October I read (or in one case tried to read) the first three books in Elizabeth O’Roark’s Devils series (book four comes out December 1st). They’d been recommended to me by no less than three people and a couple more friends have recommended them since then. Here ... more >

June 13, 2022

REVIEW: Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewsadvice / Black characters / Black culture / caregiver burnout / cultural history / dating / Detroit / high-school / POC / POC author / radio DJ / recluse / sexual-assault / Writer / YA / YA romanceComments Off on REVIEW: Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle

Dear Ebony LaDelle, I don’t t recall how your debut Young Adult novel came to my attention, but I liked the eye-catching cover and the premise sounded interesting. A bit gimmicky (a high school boy tries to get a girl to fall in love with him in three dates) but ... more >

December 7, 2021

REVIEW: The Great Gatz by Lauren Baratz-Logsted and Jackie Logsted

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / depression / dog / editor / First-Person / New York City / online harassment / POC / Writer2 Comments

A dog tries his best to keep his two co-parenting owners and their happiness afloat in this hilarious and touching sequel to Joint Custody by Lauren Baratz-Logsted and Jackie Logsted. The Man is happy. The Woman is happy. That means Gatz is happy. He’d like to forget about the trouble ... more >

August 9, 2021

REVIEW: The Winter Sea (Slains Book 1) by Susanna Kearsley

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviews18th-century / Contemporary / dual-timeline / Eighteenth century / Historical / Jacobite / Jacobite rebellion / Paranormal lite / Scotland / scottish historical / Writer15 Comments

1707. The walls of Slains castle shelter Jacobite rebels, who are conspiring to sail the young, exiled James Stewart from France into Scotland to reclaim his crown—and a young woman caught up in their plot. Present day. Writer Carrie McClelland is enchanted by an impromptu trip to Cruden Bay, Scotland, ... more >

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