6/10/2023 0 Comments Rebel beverly jenkins![]() ![]() She and Cole are friends and they’ve agreed, both for their own non-HEA-with-each-other reasons, to offer each other shelter in a marriage-of-convenience. ![]() Valinda, however, is affiancéd to her childhood friend Cole and doesn’t believe, after watching her mother and older sister be miserable in their marriages, that a happy marriage is possible. ![]() In particular, Drake LeVeq, big, powerful, Civil War veteran, wealthy, charming, and fearless. Her path then crosses with a powerful, wealthy family, the LeVeqs, who give her a home and protection and help her re-establish the school. For example, Valinda’s school is soon destroyed. They pose a threat to the characters and Jenkins does a excellent job of conveying what it feels like to live under a constant edge of what ought to be a safe, going-about-business existence. We get a sense of a society, barely out of war, trying to adjust to new historical realities, some well, and others, clinging to their place as the dominant class and race. It opens in 1867 New Orleans as New-Yorker Valinda Lacy teaches her recently freedmen, women, and their children. ![]() Though its opening was compelling, I never warmed to the protagonists and found the persistently declarative prose, flat. In truth, though, I slogged through it, taking two weeks to reach the end. I was keen to try a new historical romance author. Beverly Jenkins’s Rebel is first in her Women Who Dare series and Jenkins, a new-to-me author. ![]()
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