Something Old, Something New: A Blessings Novel

Something Old, Something New: A Blessings Novel by Beverly Jenkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Third book in the series and let me just say I was way to emotionally invested in this book. This book mainly focuses on Devon the eight year old preacher. Bernadine warned the foster parents that it would take time for the kids to show who they were and oh boy did Devon show out.
There were parts when I wanted to get my belt for his butt. LOL. I can't tell you much about Zoe because it would be a spoiler.

There are some very funny parts in this book and I mean laugh out loud funny parts. There is some sadness as well. Beverly writes a complete story that makes you feel as if you are in that town seeing the events unfold.



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A Second Help: a Blessings Novel

A Second Helping:a Blessings Novel by Beverly Jenkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is the second book in the series and as always there is alot going on. There is a murder (you have to read it to believe it); a kidnapping and a reunion. Beverly has got to be the best writer I have ever read in terms of fiction.
This book was so good. I love that the kids have a voice and are not just secondary characters. Heck everybody has something to say in the town of Henry Adams whether you want to hear it or not.
Bernadine still has money and heart and she is still spreading around this town she owns. I love the patience and love she shows Crystal but when Crystal's biological father shows up he finds a hard lesson.

No more! I don't want to spoil it for you.



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Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins

Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I loved this book so much. Being a foster mom it really hit home with me. This is not a traditional romance novel it is more inspirational than anything else. I really loved that this book brings me back to Henry Adams and the descendants of my favorite characters from other books.



The background stories for each of the foster children is so moving.



There is the teenage girl to old for her own good. Selling her body to make it on the streets.



The car thief, left behind and the best car thief in Detroit.



The smart but chubby boy who burned down his foster mother's house just so he could get moved to a new home where they would buy his asthma medicine.



The preacher who was just a eight year old boy who only wears suits and whose soul is too old for his little body.



And there is the little girl whose story will make you sick. she sat next to her mother's dead body...

trust me there is much more but you will have to read it to get more..



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Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

Midnight by Beverly Jenkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As always Ms. Jenkins did not disappoint me with this story. Faith and Nick have a beautiful love story that defied the odds.  Seriously I loved this book and because I am a lover of history the information used was quite accurate.
The love scenes were not as hot as say  "Topaz" but not every story can be. My criteria for a 5 star review is that once I finish reading it, it stays on my mind. I started this review last night but I keep thinking about the book. The scenes from this book are playing like a movie in my mind.


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Before The Dawn by Beverly Jenkins

Before the Dawn by Beverly Jenkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Before The Dawn - if I have to say that I have a least favorite book by Ms. Jenkins this one is it. Not that it is a bad book but it gives me the creeps. This is the only book that I own by her that I have only read once but I remember everything about the story to this day and it came out 7 years ago. It is a good read but maybe too vivid for me.



Like all of her books I love them but as I stated above there is all kinds of craziness in this book that will keep your interest.

A Chance At Love by Beverly Jenkins

A Chance at Love by Beverly Jenkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


A Chance at Love - Loreli Winters is the heroine of this book and of all things she was a female gambler in the 1800's. She was introduced in Always and Forever. She took the trip to Kansas with the other women for adventure because she knew her occupation did not make her a good choice for a wife. You have to read this one.



This books proves that no matter your past love can heal any of us. Loreli loved the twins from the moment she met them and although she swore that she did not want to be a mother she became one from the moment she met them under that tree.

Always And Forever by Beverly Jenkins

Always and Forever by Beverly Jenkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Always and Forever - meet Grace Atwood a banker of all things, in a time when women were supposed to just be pretty little air heads. Her fiance leaves her for a woman with more money and she decides to get away from the gossip by leading a bunch of mail order brides across the county to Kansas for her cousin. The town is being started by men and they need wives. The thing is that Grace knows nothing about wagons trains and needs a wagonmaster, enter tall, luscious Jackson Blake former Texas Lawman and brother to Griffin Blake. He agrees to lead her train because he wants to make his way back to Texas to clear his name. He was run out by a murderous son who killed his own father and blamed Blake. This book is so good and showcases the power of a man's pride and how strong a woman's love for her husband should be.

Topaz by Beverly Jenkins

Topaz by Beverly Jenkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Readers Lend Me Your Ear and Eyes!!!!





I want to introduce you to one of my favorite authors on earth!



Mrs. Beverly Jenkins



She is an African American author who writes historical and contemporary romance novels, filled with love, lust, mystery, intrigue and for the historical romances some of the most unknown historical facts that you never learned in school.



Ever so often I find myself re-reading her books because they are that good. I just finished Indigo a few days ago and let me tell you I love that book. Indigo is the name given to Hester Wyatt a former slave now a stop on the underground railroad of sorts. She is a rest stop in Michigan for the weary before they head on to Canada. One night she is brought a man that is known only as the Black Daniel (a slave thief) he steals slaves and brings them north to freedom but there is more to the Black Daniel than meets the eye.



Right now I am reading Night Song and it is the story of a Buffalo Soldier and a school teacher. There is alot more to it than that trust me. There is some arson, a few murders and a kidnapping or two.



The books in order of release date per her website are:



Night Song



Vivid - This one is about a black female doctor, unheard of in that day and a time in a all black town in Kansas.



Indigo



Topaz - is my all time favorite because of Dixon Wildhorse, god knows a man like this can only be created in a book because I don't if God made a man this beautiful or skilled at lovemaking in real life. He is part black and part Seminole Indian and to settle a debt owed to him he accepts the hand of a thief's daughter and believe me there is a little Katherine Wildhorse inside of me. She is a virgin and pretty naive when it comes to dealing with men but she is also a journalist who poses as a man so that she can be published. When he takes her back to his town where he is the Sheriff she joins up with the Dewies (a group of women) and all hell breaks loose. How embarrassing is it to be the sheriff and have to bond your own wife out of jail. Jackson Blake and the Terrible Twins and Griffin Blake are introduced in this book.There is so much more to this story.

Through the Storm by Beverly Jenkins

Through the Storm by Beverly Jenkins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Through the Storm - is next and Raimond LeVeq is the hero and if you read Indigo that is where he is first introduced along with the Black Daniel Galen Vachon who also makes an appearance in this book. The heroine in this book is Sable Fontaine which if you know me personally then you know that I use that name as my email address so that should tell you how much I loved this book. Also it is set in New Orleans and everyone knows that I love my city.



Sable is a slave or has to make two great escapes to save her own life. She is the daughter of a african queen and the master who owned them. There is a beautiful story here as well as the history.