Rating: 
Summary: Good Read
Review: This a quite a page turner. It is fast moving, a little predictable - but it does have a good message.
Rating: 
Summary: 4 Guys Are Always Trouble
Review: As usually there are 4 guys involved in this book. Ibn, Dexter, Collins, and Mike. They are frat brothers. Erika aka Bunches was their frat brother's sister. His name was Trevor, and before he died of a blood disease, he asked them to look after his sister. Trevor and Bunches mother was killed in a auto accident. Their father was not around to raise them. As the story goes, each of the guys has their own share of relationship problems, but when it comes to Bunches they committment to her brother Trevor stands above anything else. Bunches is growing up and an upcoming doctor. The guys still see Bunches as a little girl that needs protection and they try to run every guy she meets away from her. But there is one guy they are unable to runaway. Can you guess who it is? I will tell you this, it is one of the guys who promised Bunches brother he would look after her. Ibn was well educated but had double standards when it came to woman. In the end it cost him the woman he truly loved. Dexter wanted to get out of a relationship, but a surprise was waiting for him and he tried to do the correct thing and handle his business. Collins was a mama's boy and very naive, and I truly believe that Collins just wanted to be loved. He did get with someone who respected and cared for him and lifted his low self esteemed. Mike, oh Mike, now I liked Mike, he seemed to have it together for most of the time. But when it came to Bunches, he too was over protective. For all the wrong reasons. He also tried to live in the past with a girl he always liked. This girl had become saved and he tried to get with it. But in the end his heart led him to the right lady. This was a good book, very entertaining.
Rating: 
Summary: Good lifestyle description, needs more plot
Review: OK, this review is coming from a white guy approaching middle age. Who's reading a novel where all the characters are black. Just because it looks like a good story. Well, this is what goes through the white guy's mind while reading it. First, all the characters in the book seem to be well-educated. Or in the process of being well-educated. The "trouble" part of the title is even studying medicine. For this I have a lot of admiration. All the characters in the book also seem to have no problems getting as much sex as they desire, with as many partners as they want. Even the married ones. And when the partners cross paths, it doesn't seem to cause the level of tragedy one might think. For this I am envious. The characters in the book also seem to not have any problems with money. Their cars have stickers with the names "Lexus" and "Mercedes". They wear fashionable clothes, and seem to lead the lifestyles of the "What sort of man reads Playboy?" ads. Now I have a Master's Degree and have worked in the computer profession for many years. Yet my lifestyle nowhere near comes to the fairly young adults portrayed in this book. For this, I'm a bit skeptical, and this feeling would be there whether the characters are white or black. The characters in the book use swearing a lot (and I mean a LOT) more liberally than I see in my circles. They are also quicker to use some very mean words to describe their lovers much more early into a disagreement than I see in my circles. Sure, they are just words, and they are used in a more elegant, educated manner than say your basic white redneck does. But for this, I just see a reinforcement of some of the stereotypes that the author seems to be wanting to dispel with his characters. Oh yes, the story. Well, there really isn't that much of a plot more than a very interesting description of a lifestyle that I frankly wouldn't mind having myself. It concerns the post-college years of four men who were in the same fraternity. A friend of the four dies, and asks them to watch over his sister. Well, that sister is all grown up now, in medical school, and has her own mind. She's also become a very attractive young lady, and for a group of guys who need to buy more guns (only in a figurative sense) just to carve more notches in, we can see what problems this is going to cause. But that's it. The book is very readable, and I recommend it, but I'd give it a higher rating if something kind of important happened. Something that goes beyond who's boinkin' who, which dominates the plot so much that at one point in the book you get four consecutive scenes of our boys in the sack. It's so prominent here I've got to think the author is a bit too obsessed with the subject.
Rating:
Summary: Guys Can Be Caring
Review: I loved this book. It held my attention from
beginning to end. I found it especially interesting
reading about cities and small time places that I
identify with. It is so refreshing that Marcus Major took us into
a guy's outlook on being protective of a woman, instead
of being described as defective as so many guys are
in many books. The characters were enjoyable and made me want
a few guys to look after my well-being in such a way
as this. Great Read!!
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