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introvertinterrupted 's review for:
Forbidden
by Beverly Jenkins
The story was pretty 🤷🏿♀️ meh for about 3/4 of the book up until the end when most of the action took place.
In short, the book boils down to the male and female protagonists giving each other sultry looks across a room for half the book and the other characters nudging them together while trying to simultaneously keep them a part....shrug.....and then they get together and live happily ever after. The issue of the male protagonists is handled neatly without the fuss and danger one would expect from the time period and the total sum of warnings that the other characters gave him to keep quiet. This seems like the least believable detail of the story and made me side eye the heck out of this romance novel, but I digress...
I honestly think Beverly Jenkins must have phoned this one in because the writing and plot was not up to her usual intense and knowledge rich dialogue or even the sultry and passionate love scenes I love come to know her for. Everything in the novel felt lukewarm and almost like a setup for the next two book in the Old West series. I hope those two are better than this one yet, the bar wasn’t set too high so I’ll set my expectations accordingly.
I honestly think Beverly Jenkins must have phoned this one in because the writing and plot was not up to her usual intense and knowledge rich dialogue or even the sultry and passionate love scenes I love come to know her for. Everything in the novel felt lukewarm and almost like a setup for the next two book in the Old West series. I hope those two are better than this one yet, the bar wasn’t set too high so I’ll set my expectations accordingly.