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Summary: Will the Real EJD PLEASE Stand UP!...
Review: After reading all of Eric Jerome Dickey's previous works I was more than excited to learn about his latest offering Between Lovers. While not admitting any bias on my part, I found myself apprehensive about reading it due to the touchy subject matter. Although Dickey has tackled issues in his books ranging from the intimate workings of the sister-friend circle, to interracial dating, to racial identity, the offering of a woman torn between her two lovers, a man and a woman, was less than appealing to me for a multitude of reasons. I was hoping there would be a surprising revelation in the book such as in Milk in My Coffee or an honest look at the male psyche in relation to the opposite sex as in Cheaters. I received none of the above. Instead I was met with the male protagonist, who is so oblivious to his only real choice in the book it is almost unbearable to read, and the ... man-hating lesbian antagonist who is rather inconsequential to the main character's resolution with the exception of being an irritation throughout the story. Quite frankly to book is so laden with the ... exploits of the two main characters it's pretty much like shelling peas by the third encounter, a chore I could live without. The consistently contrived ... scenes lack any of the eroticism of his previous works. It's almost like he took the weakest storyline in his work prior to this one, the less than original lesbian love affair in Liar's Game, and spun it into a novel. I recall hearing that EJD say he often does not throw out ideas he has for books, instead he incorporates them into his other works. I for one hope this is the last novel I will be able to read as a failed regurgitation of his prior works. Instead of turning this novel into an exercise to show his open mindedness on sexual preference hopefully he will sit down a return to the task of representing the under heard voice of Black males in literature with the honesty and strength we all so rightly deserve to hear.
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Summary: Uhh...no!
Review: Okay, I'll admit it and its is final. I am not a EDJ fan. I mean I tried to read another one of his books and it just wasn't flowing. So I decieded to give him another chance, and I was again dissapointed. The story is cool. A little too much details as far as all the running the charactes did. I gave it 3 stars because I enjoyed the sex stories. I did not like how the story ended. If you like EDJ get the book, if you don't or can't decided if you like him, don't get it.
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Summary: ?????
Review: I wrote a review last week I had just begun reading this book. Now half way though I am really not impressed with the story. The
characters were extremely "sorry" there is love and then there is lovin' oneself. I don't believe any of them were able to do that, thus was a story about "needy" people...
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Summary: Not Outstanding!!!
Review: I just got this book about a week ago I started reading it and I am half way through.. I am not impressed. I actually feel sorry for Nicole's lovers because they really care for her. She isn't a divided soul she is "Playing" with them, why because she can...
However, if she would pick and start relationship that would be like committing.... and of course there wouldn't be a plot for a book.... I still love Milk in my coffee but this one...aaaaHHH!!
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Summary: He has done much better
Review: I was very disappointed with this book. I love all of EJD's other novels, but this one totally let me down. I don't feel like the characters were developed very well, and it read like a sex novel. I still remain a great fan of EJD. I just feel that he missed the mark with this one.
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Summary: Disappointed.....
Review: So far I have loved all of EJD's novels. That's why I ran out and bought this one. I understand that this subject is a rather popular one to explore lately, but I have to admit, I really expected more from such a great author. Although I was disappointed with this novel, I look forward to reading his lateset novel Thieves Paradise.
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Summary: She is Between, Not Him
Review: I had to read the ending a few times before I accepted it. I at first thoought that it was a cop out, an easy way to end, but then I started to see EJD's true message; if you love someone, set her free . . . which ultimately makes sense because it is she WHO IS BETWEEN lovers, not he. This is a refreshing love story, and quite literary in its approach, for a "mainstream" romance. Boy meets girl; boy loses girl (to another girl, at that); boy gets girl back, but gives her up so that SHE can go back to girl, with whom she is more properly matched--and all of this written by a male writer! It is not often that you find a sexy, sexy, sexy, sexy but non-sexist book about lesbians written by a man. Hats off to EJD.
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Summary: Chocolate chip Review
Review: To all readers Eric Jerome Dickey is a very talented writer and i have read all his books and they are good. This book only took me about two weeks to read, i never wanted to put the book down.My friends use to get mad b/c i would tell them i was reading my book and it was too good and i have to call them back later. If you like some excitemnt and drama this is the right book for you. I hope all of you read this book and read spme of the other books he has came out with. He will always be one of my favortie authors.
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Summary: Stunning contemporary work
Review: I just finished Between Lovers, Eric Jerome Dickey, which I bought on an impulse. Have never even heard of the writer until I got the book. I was just looking for a novel of contemporary theme. Though published since June of 2001, if I saw it then I probably would not have bought it because I was reading historical romance then.
The writing is fast paced, is a story of three upwardly mobile people, all experts in their chosen professions, but interlocked in a seemingly unsolvable modern love triangle. The dialogue, tongue-in-cheek, is passionate about their beliefs and ideals that none of them did not want to compromise. In fact, it was this reluctance to relent on these ideals that drove the story. To describe a love scene in a 10-page chapter takes a master writer and Eric Jerome Dickey crafted passionate, sensuous love scenes with expert touch that makes a reader wonders: can love making between a couple can be this good?
The contemporary icons mentioned were not overwhelming either, carefully sprinkled are strategic mention of laptops, cell phones, modern writers, a couple of actors and music from jazz to hip-hop to reggae. This is a must read book for all. While it is now available in mass-market paperback I opted for the hardcover and loved every page.
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Summary: Dangling Deliciously
Review: The sex is hot enough to melt leather. The tension is sharp enough to draw blood. And I haven't even started talking about the best part of the book yet, the real heart of the book, the reason why you feel compelled to read on and read on. I'm talking about the romance between the unnamed narrator and Ayanna, not Nicole. What the narrator feels for Nicole is typical of romance novels: she is his soulmate, his perfect love, blah blah blah. We tolerate their obligatory love scene as another par for the course. What he feels for Nicole's lesbian lover Ayanna, however, whom he claims to hate and whom he tries to destroy, is much more interesting. She is his rival, true, but O How Your heart did pray for them to make love, dear reader. Tell the truth. You were begging for it as EJD dangled it deliciously in front of your face. Will they or won't they? Isn't that the best way to prove who is more suited for Nicole? Go for it, unnamed narrator. Go for yours! In fact, from the first time they got together in the bar and had that nasty little fight scene, you began to feel it. If these two people didn't hate each other so much, they would make a great couple. Such passion is the real substance of a romance! You kept flipping pages. You wanted her as much as the unnamed narrator did. And the way that EJD finally consummated THAT relationship (I'm not telling what it is--go buy the book)--the way he finally consummated that relationship is what makes this book so satisfying and so much better than most of the "typical" books we are reading today. You are the man, EJD!
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