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A review by ihateprozac
To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins
2.0
This sounded like it was going to be a Black historical National Treasure and it was just a bummer.
The chemistry was non-existent, so the romance was boring and the spicy scenes were awkward at best. This could've been a really feisty class difference + Price and Prejudice story, but the execution was lacking for me.
The spy stuff was barely there, and Beverly Jenkins spread herself too thin between two villains, such that neither of them really felt very tangible or scary. I'm so used to intensely infuriating villains in her books and look forward to karma hitting them, but I didn't get that with either of the baddies here.
I need to get into more of the LeVeq books, because one of the LeVeq women gave me more life in 3 paragraphs than the hero and heroine did in this entire novel!
Given this is the finale in the Women Who Dare trilogy, it was such a letdown :(
The chemistry was non-existent, so the romance was boring and the spicy scenes were awkward at best. This could've been a really feisty class difference + Price and Prejudice story, but the execution was lacking for me.
The spy stuff was barely there, and Beverly Jenkins spread herself too thin between two villains, such that neither of them really felt very tangible or scary. I'm so used to intensely infuriating villains in her books and look forward to karma hitting them, but I didn't get that with either of the baddies here.
I need to get into more of the LeVeq books, because one of the LeVeq women gave me more life in 3 paragraphs than the hero and heroine did in this entire novel!
Given this is the finale in the Women Who Dare trilogy, it was such a letdown :(