Milk in My Coffee

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Summary: Good Shot EJ Dickey
Review: I really liked this book. I read it in three days only putting it down to eat sleep and go to class. Though i thought this was a good book, I stopped short of the perfect 5 stars because I don't like how Dickey made every single black woman in the book(except Kinnikki) have a nasty attitude. But other than that, it was cool.

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Summary: Milk in my coffee
Review: There is nothing progressive about this story as it relates to inter-racial relationships between a black man and white woman. Again, we have an author trying to sell us on the black man white woman relationship. In this case the author attempts to create a white female character that black female readers won't hate. Unlike real life situations, where the white female is usually uneducated and of lower class, this one is a professional, and so I assume she is suppose to be an exception.

Sorry, it's still bulls_________. Regardless of her short comings, the white woman will always be placed before us as the ideal woman, mother, lover, etc and many Black men have bought into that big lie.

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Summary: Totally caught off guard.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the duration of this wonderful piece of fiction. It periodically caused me to wonder if it was fiction at all. The characters were vibrant and humorous. The setting and use of words were interesting and captivating. I found this to be an excellent read with quite a few interesting twists at the end.

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Summary: My eyes were glued to the pages....
Review: Reading this book was like watching a good movie. My eyes were glued to the pages in this book, just like my eyes would stay glued to the movie screen. I really enjoyed reading this book. I've also read 'Cheaters' and 'Friends and Lovers'. Both were excellent, as well. Next I will read Sister-Sister. EJD has done a great job. Keep up the good work!!

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Summary: calm dow people!
Review: Some of the reviewers need to check themselves before writing about this novel. EJD was not commenting on every interracial relationship, and I doubt the brother really knew anything about YOUR life and situation before he wrote the book. Now with that said I think that EJD did a wonderful job with the characterizations in the book overall. I didn't come away with the feeling that any one particular group was bad, but that all the characters were flawed, individual human beings. The plot "twist" was not a cop out for me, but an interesting view of the American situation. We need to ask ourselves, what is white? what are the definitions? There is no such thing as racial purity in this nation of ours, and I think that EJD brings that to the fore.

His characters, plot, and descriptions are all well crafted and VERY believable. This is a story that could happen to any one of us. It's a wonderful book.

Just what I'd expect from an Alpha man *smile*

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Summary: Not Realistic
Review: This was my first book by EJD. I'm not African American so I can'tspeak to that side of the story, but I did find the characters in thisbook to be too one-sided (character of Jordan possibly excepted). Noone is THAT bad (the 'sistas') or that "lily-white perfect."People are complicated beasts, not to be described as simply good orbad. Also, the only reason Jordan eventually accepts Kimberly isbecause she has some "black blood" in her ancestry. Give itup. You may be black or white or any other ethnicity by blood, butknow nothing of the culture from which you hail.

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Summary: When will it ever change!
Review: I felt this book was just another complete cop outs in a long line of African American "fiction". Kimberly's identity and origin was just a way for the author to back pedal and not upset to many of his largely African American female patrons. I use to try and support these authors by reading these books then it occured to me that they know what sells, and all they do is continue to shovel this cliche garbage without truely researching these topics. I decided to stop supporting this stuff until they have something of alittle more substance to write about. Does this sound familiar ("All the good black men are..., Why can't I find a good man..., I'm a strong black woman and I..., Why all these white women...., My four girlfriends and I ( usually it's four ) all sit around and talk about our trials and tribulations of dealing with sorry black men...) you get the point, I could go on... When African American women read these books why do some of you ask "Why does he/she write that about black woman" here's your answer, because some black women are the ones who make the immature comments, disrespect the person your with when your in the store , restaurant etc.. all the while proclaiming to be "strong black women". A book like this should make African American women and men ask themselves why do I feel this way about this subject (Is it because of my own relationship shortcomings) (which I think it is). Books like this do little more than keep alive the same old tired issues that are never honestly discussed. I've found that James Patterson's Alex Cross detective series are written with better depth about African Americans than some of these so called African American authors will ever do. As an African American who was in a relationship with an African American woman, who is now in an interracial relationship this story was a serious cop out and it just wasn't honest.

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Summary: Milk in my coffee
Review: I thought Jerome Dickey did a very good job on how he went into how black females act towards black men that get with white women, he didn't put the black women down for acting the way that they do, he just explained why they do the things that they do he also showed that when you love someone, you love them for who they are, not what color they are.

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Summary: Incredible interracial story
Review: All of Mr. Dickey's book deserve a 100 stars. As a black female living in South end of the U.S and experiencing racism on a daily basis, that last thing I wanted to do is pick up a book about an interracial couple. However, this one has to be the exception. Mr. Dickey made sure his readers liked Kimberly and that somehow we can relate to her story. Reading this book is like watching a movie on Lifetime, the book was very enjoyable and it will make you look at interracial relationship in a different way. Writing takes a lot of time and imagination, and when you have an author like Eric Jerome Dickey who has people laughing out loud on the subway or at work at a book and makes you feel like you spent your money in a damn good book, I definitly have to support him. So go out to a store or a library near you, I guarantee, you will enjoy this book.

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Summary: Powerfully Entertaining
Review: Okay, first off, I was biased against this book. Let me be totally honest, I wasn't feeling the whole interracial thing, and Milk In My Coffee? The title itself turned me completely off.

BUT... It is EJD and as we all know, he IS the man. If it ain't good, then Mr. Dickey didn't write it.

So, after reading every other book that Eric Jerome Dickey has ever had published, I picked up this one. And I must say, against all odds, I seriously enjoyed this book. It was well-written, as we have all come to expect from any Eric Jerome Dickey book, and I was engrossed from start to finish. This author can do no wrong!