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Summary: Ok....ok....I dig
Review: When I first started reading this book, I felt that everything was a little too formulaic. It has the successful black business woman who's Miss Independent and looks like Tyra Banks, etc. She meets the white guy in a business suit who basically says 'Hey I'm not racist my best friend is black'...etc. The first chapter honestly made me want to just write this book off as just another "interracial book."
But wait! Read on. I'm telling you the book got spicy! It was hot! I had to go repent.....anyway, the way the relationship forms between the couple is spectacular. Plus Yvonne's history was so gripping, once it was uncovered, that it completely made up for the beginning of the book. I almost cried. I did cry. I'm about to cry now...where the hell is my tissue box....?
Now towards the end Ms. Glass lost me. After everything Yvonne and Michael had been through she listened to that dummy "friend" of hers. I felt like both of the characters were WEAK! It's like the author is saying that black men can excercise the power to break up that kind of relationship or put it back together whenever they choose. But whatever; I'm not the judge. After that the book captured my heart again. *sigh*
Overall there is a connection with this book that I cannot deny. It's a must read. Then when you're ready to move to college level go pick up The Time of Our Singing.
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Summary: It started to be an interesting read, but it fell apart
Review: When I started to read this book, I thought that I was going to enjoy it. It was such an awful book that wasn't worthy of finishing. Yvonne and Michael were irritating to me with their constant whining. My favorite character was Michael's dog. If I wanted a better written interracial love story with greater character development, I can rely on Sandra Kitt as better a read. What a...waste of paper.
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Summary: Will quench your thrist for passion and suspense!
Review: When it comes to interracial romance stories the pickings are slim in the literary world, especially when it comes to white men and black women. I have to say that Ms. Glass creates wonderful characters that the reader cares about. And she is not afraid to write about SEX and lots of it! After I read this novel I kept going back to it to read some my favorite scenes between Vonne and Michael. You actually believe that the two characters fell in love with each other, albeit with hesitation because of their wounded pasts. Great read!
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Summary: A story you can feel!
Review: Yvonne is a successful entrepeneur with a life full of friends, work, and girls to mentor. But Yvonne's success has come at a high cost--not the phsyical anguish evidenced by scars from a terrible car wreck in her childhood, but the emotional trauma of being the only member of her family to survive that wreck. She has locked part of her heart away for good--or so she thinks, until she meets a sexy business consultant named Michael. Michael thinks he has locked his heart away, too. After being used and discarded by his beloved ex-wife to whom he tried to give everything, Michael adopts a shallow playboy image as a defensive measure. No emotional entanglements, just a little fun then cut and run. He promises that no woman will ever have an advantage over him again. Fortunately for the reader, such promises of the heart are made to be broken. When Michael fills in for a friend who was to collect Yvonne at the airport, immediate sparks fly between the two. Michael introduces Yvonne to physical love, accepting her scars and helping her to see beyond them. Yvonne allows Michael to relax and be himself without fear of rejection or manipulation. She frustrates him, though, when she won't let him into her private pain as he let her into his. They both battle their fear of caring too much for another human being, finding they can't turn away from the warmth they find in each other's arms. A no-strings affair seems the perfect solution. Except that, soon, it isn't nearly enough. And Yvonne and Michael have to fight not only the demons of the past but the jealous spectres of the present--if they are brave enough to embrace the future. The plot flows almost seamlessly and the author's use of language is wonderful. Sentences are well-crafted, words well-placed, to deliver maximum impact. And page after page, they do deliver. I have rarely felt as connected to characters and situations as I did those in this novel. Glass also does an excellent job of avoiding cliches and stereotypes. There are no white parents horrified at the prospect of biracial grandchildren and no black sister-girls warning about "the only thing a white man wants." There are, however, excellent portrayals of three-dimensional people with valid concerns and honest reactions. One of the book's strengths is that Glass's focus never veers from the romance into the land of social soapbox. Race is dealt with as one issue in a relationship, just like whether to have kids, where to live, the ex who won't go away, or religious differences. It never becomes the defining factor, which makes for a very realistic read. From the opening airplane scene, the reader has a distinct sense of these characters as living, loving human beings, and delving into their psyches proves a fascinating exercise. We feel their joy, their trepidation and their triumph, and we finally close the back cover having made new friends. What a pleasure it is to find a new author with Seressia Glass's talent!
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