6/2/2023 0 Comments Let It Shine by Alyssa Cole![]() By signing up you agree to our terms of useĬole’s gift for balancing internal and external conflict is front and center in her Off the Grid series. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. When the stakes are this high, the payoff is all the more meaningful. ![]() Romance novels occasionally suffer from a manufactured or flimsy external conflict – He travels a lot! She’s his best friend’s sister! They have competing wineries! But in Let It Shine, Sofie and Ivan are dealing not only with their complicated feelings and intertwined pasts, but also with the realities of the movement and the violence and injustice of the time. The novella also features one of the most consistent themes in her work: love challenged by seemingly insurmountable external obstacles. ![]() The book is relatively short, but Cole deftly weaves themes of family, feminism, religion, and justice through the engaging and moving story. ![]() Let It Shine tells the story of Sofie, a young Black woman and Ivan, a young Jewish man, fighting as a part of the 1960s Civil Rights movement. It’s also a great place to start reading romance. Cole’s novella Let It Shine is a great place to start with her books. ![]()
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