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Hated the love interest in the third story. Too much talk about god for my liking, as well.

Second story was WAY better... nice and sweet (pun intended ;) )

holy moly... this is such a train wreck... when I think it can't get worse, it does... turns out he is HER former slave owner (but she doesn't remember him, because her family fled when she a child)... also, he is made out to be some kind of hero for saving some black soldiers during the war... and the one time she stands up to him, she ends up apologising to him...

it gets worse... white woman asks him if he had owned slaves, he says yes and when asked if he freed them before the war, he says no... white lady: "Well, they are free now." and that's the whole discussion we are going to get on that topic...
I mean, yes, it's romance, but maybe, just don't make a former slave owner the main love interest?
and all that in a Juneteenth collection...

the ex-confederate is half-mexican, half-irish... and this just came out of his mouth "Evidently, American are more tolerant of a black Irishman than a Mexican immigrant."

When you read "The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology" would you not expect romances with 2 Black leads? Or is that just me?
First story is interracial... nothing wrong with that, but def. not what I was expecting from that title... (also, the love interest is an ex-confederate soldier... I am feeling apprehensive...)