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Summary: Sweet St. Louis is not so Sweet
Review: I have enjoyed everything I have read by Omar Tyree until now. Sweet St. Louis was the most slow moving, and uninteresting book I have read in a very long time. Not to mention, every character with the exception of Ant, was extremely annoying. I think Sharron did an overkill on the line that brought the two together, "A piece of you....". Along with the fact her character asked far to many questions.I am sure there was a lesson to be learned, but I certainly learned nothing. Perhaps, I would have if I could relate to the characters, but fortunately, I don't know anyone as annoying as those characters. I hope the Omar's sequel to "Fly Girl" is a lot better.
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Summary: An OK Urban Love Story
Review: I have read most of tyree's works but this book is only OK and that is the problem. His books are usually the greatest maybe if there was a little more drama not necessary bad but just drama period.
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Summary: Reader from the Chi
Review: I have to be totally honest. Of all the books of Omar Tyree this has to be the worse. I loved the others but this one is very slow and kind of narrative. It gets juicy in some parts then it's like dull. I would recommend it to a writer that wants to get some pointers of what not to write about. Why couldn't he just say STL instead of St. Louis International Airport? Things of that nature is what made this book a little dull.
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Summary: I guess
Review: I loved Omar Tyree when I read Flyy Girl, For the Love of Money, A Do Right Man, and Single Mom. But he must have been on something when he wrote Sweet St Louis. I love to read and have read all of Eric Jerome Dickey's books, and I love every one of them. But Sweet St. Louis was boring, did not catch my attention at all, and I would not recommend it to anyone. I feel that Tyree has much more potential than this book and hope that his other novels are better than this one.
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Summary: Please Remove His Computer From His House!
Review: If someone would please do me and the rest of the readers a favor and remove his computer, word processor, notebook, pens and pencils, we might be spared another Omar Tyree novel! After reading the dreadfully boring College Boy, I didn't think Omar could possibly write another novel as bad as that one. While not quite as awful as College Boy, Sweet St. Louis is a close second. Filled with page after page of long, boring narrative, this book took forever to go anywhere and forever to get to a point (assuming that there was a point, that is). I won't be reading another book by him again as there are way too many better authors than him to choose from.
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Summary: Wasnt Feelin It
Review: ok, im a lil biased because i live in St.Louis and i know that writers sometimes take liberties when writing....but this book had more flaws than an FBI investigation (oops, did i say that?) while the plot was cool...the book was slow at some places as if the writer was bored and didnt have anything to really write about.....and then it seemed the he didnt really research the city or its people (sorry, we dont use the whole name when talking about the airport!!!). since Fly Girl, this writers work has been going down hill FAST!!! PS...black men do read!!!
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Summary: Sweet St. Louis
Review: Sweet St. Louis is a novel about Anthony "Ant" Poole, a young auto mechanic, and Sharron Francis an employee at a gift shop in the airport. Ant is driving around in the passenger seat of his own car with his best friend Tone and decides to approaches Sharron with a creative line which captures her attention and makes her wonder if he wants her or just a one night stand. "You wanna make a trade with me?.... A piece of me for a piece of you" Sharron is an ordinary girl from Memphis Tennesse who is very shaken by a man with originality. She wants to find out what he really means but she must discover him before anything else.
A moment in the book that really captured my attention was when Anthony got arrested for a stupid mistake his best friend was really responsible for, and even though Celena, Sharron's best friend tells her not to, and Sharron ahd only known this man for a few months, she decides to bail her "man" out. At this point the two realize how much they really mean to each other and that nothing or no one should and won't come between their love and what they share, a real relationship.
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Summary: First Impressions Do Last!
Review: Sweet St. Louis was about Four Central Characters in the game of love and romance. Anthony(Ant) Poole, was a young and bored auto mechanic, who stumbled upon Sharron Francis, an ordinary girl from Memphis, Tennesee, who worked at an ordinary job at the St. Louis Interrnational Airport and Sharron was in search of a serious relationship with the right brother. Complimenting Sharron and Ant were their good friends Anthony who just couldn't grow up and Celena the over cynical, over protective, extremely negative roommate from hell. The book was filled with typical situations such as Ant getting with another young lady Diane for a "booty call" and Ant/Tony ending up on the wrong side of the law. The storyline/plot was not only slow and boring but was definitely predictable and one that someone who hadn't read the book could finish for you. Mr. Tyree tried to add depth by including secondary characters such as Sharrons's dad, Ant's mom, Ant's boss Paul, and one of Sharron's co-workers(a child with a whole bunch of drama going on). However, the four main characters were so stereotypical and there wasn't enough substance to the secondarey characters to balance the main characters. Maybe my expectations were too high; however, I found the main characters to be very immature and unlike anyone I know today or even knew 20 years ago. The story was over-written and probably 200 pages too long as the speech was repetitive and redundant. I wish I Had Something Different To Say and Something That Had Not Already been said however, Sweet St. Louis just left a sour taste for me. The only reason I felt compelled to finish reading Sweet St. Louis was because I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt and I kept hoping that the book would get better. I had heard so many good things about Mr. Tyree's books and thought I would enjoy reading them since many had compared him to the likes of EL Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey and Mike Baisden. Unfortunately, Sweet St. Louis was void of substance and shallow. Mr. Tyree, I know that you are a well respected author, however, if you want to keep this reader coming back and perceiving your novels as page turners you will have to spend more time developing the storyline beyond the ghetto-mentality they seem to possess. I read fiction to escape not to be reminded of headline news. Sweet St. Louis appeared to lack effort to be interesting....maybe a little more time between books would help. However, since I have Single Mom, I will read that and give Mr. Tyree one more chance before I write him off because everyone deserves a second chance.
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Summary: Not an urban love story but ok
Review: This book was ok. It took too long to get to the point. I admit there were times when it was a page turner but that was because I wanted to know if this or that was going to happen. It just took too long to get to the point. But other than that the book was cool. It was something to read. I would recommend this to readers that loved to read. It's a different world.
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Summary: I Winced With Just About Every Paragraph
Review: This is the first time I've ever provided comments on an Omar Tyree product. I'm aware that it's much easier to write a review than it is to write a page-turning book, therefore let me first commend Mr. Tyree for all his efforts in pursuing his writing dreams. However, in reading the first couple hundred pages of Sweet St. Louis, I couldn't help but notice certain habits he has in regards to his writing style. For example, he is notorious for explaning things that the reader automatically knows. Mr. Tyree will write a sentence like "Well, when did she get pregnant?" she asked, for more information on the story." It is not necessary to explain the character's every thought or the reasoning behind what he or she says. Frequently writing in that method slows the story's pace, makes one tempted to reshelve the book, and those type of sentences rarely add anything worthwhile to the story. If Mr. Tyree and his editor would remove all those redundant sentences during the rewrite, his stories would read so much better. He has great storylines, wonderful titles, but the writing style currently used isn't getting better but stays stagnant with each release. I enjoy some of his sentences, but I am looking forward to the day that he understands what makes a story flow and begins to utilize that knowledge so that the reader will have a more enjoyable experience. Wishing him much literary success.
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