Welcome back to Cover Awe! To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins Cover image by Lauren Rautenbach | Arcangel Images Sarah: This is the Brazilian cover. Elyse: That is so gorgeous. There a quiet drama there. Tara: That cover is a balm to my soul, which is weary of illustrated people on covers. This is just perfection. Sarah: It’s dramatic and intriguing and soothing at the same time. I love looking at international editions. Rewitched by Lucy … Continue reading Cover Awe: An International Beverly Jenkins →
Happily Never After by Lynn Painter is $2.99! This was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet and features two characters who get hired to shout “I object” at weddings. Did any of you pick this up?
Continue reading →
RECOMMENDED: A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan is $3.99! This is the first book in the Lady Trent series, which Carrie really loves. Readers say the book is pretty awesome in terms of concept, but they surprisingly wanted more dragons. Have you read this book or series?
Continue reading →
The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe is $1.99! My main gripe with this series is that the three sisters have an awful, sexist dad. The books kind of overlap in terms of a timeline, so you get to experience the dad in all of his shittiness three times around.
Continue reading →
The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon is $1.99! This is also a Kindle Daily Deal. Catherine read this one and gave it a B-:
There was some lovely writing, some fantastic banter, and I really did like Shay and Dominic together. They had terrific chemistry and the sort of teasing relationship that makes me very happy, because it means there is a firm foundation of friendship underneath the romance.
Continue reading →
As the title suggests, these two Lightnings Reviews feature a cookbook and a Beverly Jenkins historical romance. I know some of you like to read the reviews and then guess who wrote which and I’m very curious if you’ll guess today’s reviewers correctly. Let us know in the comments!
Content warning: Spring’s backstory contains abuse, including sexual exploitation, and Garrett is a former slave and child soldier. Both characters face racism, and this is a major plot point. Wild Rain is a lovely, tender romance between Spring, a horse-rancher living in Wyoming, and Garrett, a reporter for a Black newspaper who has travelled out West to interview Spring’s brother. Spring is independent, prickly, and extremely competent, and Garrett is charmed by her almost from … Continue reading Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins →
Ms. Bev is back! Today my guest is the inestimable Beverly Jenkins, which is always a fun conversation. Recently she tweeted about reader letters and reader mail, and she was kind enough to pull some from her archives (of course she keeps all of them!) to read and share with us. There are some that are incredible, and some that are rather shocking. And some might make you a little sniffly, so get a tissue. … Continue reading 421. Love Will Get You Through: Reader Letters To Beverly Jenkins →
This guest review comes from Claudia. Thanks, Claudia! At sixteen, Claudia found her older cousin’s stash of Barbara Cartlands and assorted Harlequin-type romance housed in an old sewing cabinet and life was never the same! She loves history, so she mostly reads historical romance. Favorite authors include Meredith Duran, Mary Balogh, Miranda Neville, Elizabeth Kingston, and Rose Lerner. … CW/TW for attempted rape First off, the cover! To me, it pays homage to some of … Continue reading Guest Review: Rebel by Beverly Jenkins →
Sarah chats with Beverly Jenkins, known in the romance community as Ms. Bev, one day after she finished and turned in her latest book. So of course we talk about that! We also talk about her new film, adapted, directed and produced for screen by Iris Bolling, which premieres on Amazon on December 15 – and of course we have links where you can watch it. We talk about the process of bringing Deadly Sexy … Continue reading 329. “Catching My Breath” – A Look Back and a Glimpse Forward With Beverly Jenkins →
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara is $1.99! We featured this book earlier in the week and there were so many comments on the post about this book. Plus, a reader tweeted at us about this one:
Fantastic prickly heroine who grows and changes over time, really intriguing worldbuilding…
Continue reading →
