by Jennifer Trethewey | Sep 21, 2023 | Blog
JACKAL by Erin E. Adams is a psychological thriller that will: A) Keep you up at night. B) Give you the shivers. C) Make your skin crawl. The answer is, of course, D) All of the above. In the story, Liz Rocher returns to her small-town hometown for her best friend...
by Jennifer Trethewey | Sep 18, 2023 | Blog
I chose to read BLACK CAKE by Charmaine Wilkerson for several reasons. First, I’m focusing my book choices on authors of color because I’ve taken the #23FOR23 challenge and I am loving it. It’s turning out to be one long forehead smack. Second, it popped up on Audible...
by Jennifer Trethewey | Sep 16, 2023 | Blog
I have enjoyed Vanessa Riley’s Regency romances for years—the Advertisements for Love series is my particular favorite—so I knew this book would be well-researched, richly detailed, and a thoroughly absorbing experience for readers. But because this was a story about...
by Jennifer Trethewey | Sep 10, 2023 | Blog
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve finished a book and said, “This needs to be a movie.” Well, THEN, NOW, ALWAYS needs to be a movie. And not a Hallmark movie, although Hallmark would certainly do well with this story, but a big ol’ Hollywood blockbuster...
by Jennifer Trethewey | Sep 4, 2023 | Blog
#23for23 Just finished listening to Rebekah Weatherspoon’s HAVEN, the first in her Beards and Bondage series, and whoa, this story takes of like a rocket on page one. Mountain man, Shep Olsen’s life turns upside down when Claudia Cade comes crashing through his front...
by Jennifer Trethewey | Sep 1, 2023 | Blog
If you haven’t seen #23for23 before, it is a challenge created by romance authors. Read 23 books by authors of color between now and the end of 2023. I found out about the challenge from my indy writer friend, Carla Luna, author of five contemporary romance novels:...
