After you read/listen to that enough times, it sounds kind of gross.) That is unless you consider the sex scenes and then walking around with the taste of each other in their mouths. The book provided a TON of background Westmoreland information, but not much about Bella and Jason. This book felt rushed, like subplots were tossed into it and abruptly ended without any story behind it. Why does it seem like the women lately are all hazel eyes beauties? Bella just seemed whiny, insecure, and immature to me. In tired of each MC having an 'A/A' conversation. I'm tired of the lack of communication where the couple is too afraid to say what they are thinking of feeling. It's like they are coming of the Westmoreland assembly line. I'm tired of insecure women feeling like 'why would he want me? He's a Westmoreland!' I'm tired of the perfect Westmoreland men. I didn't feel any chemistry between Jason and Bella.

The men didn't sound feminine, and the women didn't sound overly masculine.

I think he did a good job voicing the male and female characters, but it didn't feel like there was any emotion involved. I listened to that audio Book and again felt that the narrator didn't have much to work with here. Brenda’s 2011 novel A Silken Thread is scheduled to be filmed with Debbie Allen attached as director in 2015.Įmail Brenda at or visit her on her website at. In 2010, she collaborated with Five Alive Films to turn her Truly Everlasting title into a feature film. In 2013, she was recognized by the mayor and the city of Jacksonville as being a Trailblazer in the literary field.

In 2012, Brenda received the Romance Writers of America’s Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award-one of the highest literary awards a romance author can receive. Since then she has had more than 100 novels and novellas published (the first African-American author to accomplish such a feat) and has over 3 million books in print.Ī native of Jacksonville, Florida, Brenda is the first African-American author to have a book published by Harlequin Desire and the first African-American romance author to make the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller lists within the series romance genre. In 1994, Brenda Jackson’s first novel, Tonight and Forever, was released.

A Silken Thread by Brenda Jackson