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Review: Big Girls Don’t Fry by Fay Jacobs

May 9, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Anthology From travel bingo to Windows 10, socks and Snopes, marches and rallies and refusing to be anything other than she is, this collection of Fay Jacobs’ writing is filled with humor,...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Contemporary, Elizabeth's reviews, Non Fiction
TAGGED: Bywater Books, Fay Jacobs, humor, memoir, Tales from Rehoboth Beach series

Review: The Captain and his Thief by Katy Haye

May 9, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Hakan has lived his life as a pirate and his crew was scattered when they were captured and taken into slavery. Now that Hakan has escaped, he’s determined to rebuild and reunite his crew. He...

FILED UNDER: 3 stars, Fantasy, Michelle's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: enemies to lovers, Katy Haye, pirate, self published, The Pirate's Revenge series, violence

Review: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

May 8, 2024 | 3 comments

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel It is 1960 and Eddie O’Leary has recently been drafted to the new Major League Baseball expansion team, the New York Robins. Unfortunately, Eddie’s knee-jerk negative reaction to...

FILED UNDER: 4.75 stars, Historical, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: athlete, Avon Books, baseball, Cat Sebastian, grief/loss, grumpy/sunshine, journalist, opposites attract

Review: The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo

May 8, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella Cleric Chih is accompanying a young woman and her parents to her new home. The bride, Nhung Pham, is a cheerful girl who enjoys eating and pretty things. Her parents, once wealthy, are now...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy, Historical
TAGGED: gore, Nghi Vo, nonbinary, Singing Hills Cycle series, Tor.com

Guest Post: Earth 2100 with J. Scott Coatsworth

May 8, 2024 | 1 comment

Today I am so pleased to welcome J. Scott Coatsworth to Joyfully Jay. Scott has come to talk to us about the Earth 2100 anthology. Please join me in giving a big welcome! Building a (Second) Anthology A year and a half ago, we sent out a call for hopepunk...

FILED UNDER: Guest Post
TAGGED: J. Scott Coatsworth

Review: HEA: Happily Ever After by Lucy Lennox and Molly Maddox

May 7, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Oscar Overton has been a best man many times; it’s almost like a second job for him. But he has never been a groom. All the best man speeches were for Oscar’s exes who met “the one” after...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Contemporary, Michelle's Reviews
TAGGED: After Oscar series, fake relationship, Lucy Lennox, Molly Maddox, photographer, self published, wealthy character

Review: Lavash at First Sight by Taleen Voskuni

May 7, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Ellie works a tech marketing job and is currently about to present her pitch — Operation Wolf — in the hopes of landing a promotion. She has a good team, a demanding boss, and Kyle, her...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Contemporary, Elizabeth's reviews
TAGGED: Berkley Romance, bisexual, enemies to lovers, pansexual, Taleen Voskuni

Review: Can’t Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

May 7, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 2.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Reyna is a Queensguard who does her duty well. But the Queen is cold hearted and callous, and when Reyna finally reaches her breaking point, she abandons her post to live the life she’s...

FILED UNDER: 2.75 stars, Fantasy, Kris' Reviews
TAGGED: Bramble, established couple, magic, mystery, Rebecca Thorne, Tomes & Tea Series