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I haven’t been able to finish Douglas A. Blackmon’s Slavery By Another Name.

Each time I pick it up, it makes me angrier.

That is all.

Bachelor Untamed
Brenda Jackson
Kimani Press
2009

Please stop me before I read another Brenda Jackson romance.

I generally have the same complaints about her books: unrealistic dialogue and insipid heroines (and in case you’re wondering why I continue to read her, it’s out of some sort of possibly misplaced Florida-girl loyalty).

Bachelor Untamed still has the dialogue problem, but for once the heroine isn’t a complete drip. A complete one, I said.

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