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Summary: Mirror on the wall...reveal to me what I'm doing wrong!!
Review: Monique, a mature woman must face the facts that she needs to do some soul searching cause at 40 years old, her life is crumbling and it is not everyone around her. Monique has decided to go on a voluntary sabbatical from men. She is going to do some deep down soul searching and will not get involved with any man until she has turned herself inside out and right side up. As she moves back to her moms hometown, and is faced with a family crisis, she indulges in working for her uncles bed and breakfast. Just as she thought this vacation from men would clear her thoughts, in walks the handsome,strong, construction workers supervisor, who will be in town for a while. Monique has men drooling over her and showing her mad attention, but the one and only man that she can even consider thinking about is not showing her the time of day. Mac is strong,responsible and when he first lays eyes on Monique red flags jump out at him. He realizes that he needs to let her be, his better judgement tells him to stay away,but as time goes on he realizes that his eys like what they see. After spending sometime together and becoming friends, they come into a bump in the road and Mac realizes that his first instincts of Monique were true, but even when your mind tells you one thing, your heart feels another. Monique realizes that she has to change and then as circumstances evolve she learns along with Mac that she has changed and definitely for the better. With this story you learn and will understand that physical beauty is only an attribute to getting the recognition of admirers, but is not the foundation of sustaining a relationship and finding a soul mate. You will also find that the one thing that you think makes you beautiful, you may be able to live without. What really makes a person is not where you work, how much money you make, where you live or where you are from, and not how long your hair is or flawless your skin is, your beauty is much deeper. Also, you will learn as Monique learned that it is not always about YOU!! If you are not careful, you may wake up and find that you are the only one that thinks that You are all that and then some, and then you will have YOU all to yourself, while those you had are involved and committed to someone else. I recommend that you read "Love Affair" along with this one, so you will have a complete understanding of Monique. This is not a smoochy, ooooooooooh romance, but a very real story of love lost and love found.
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Summary: Mirror on the wall...reveal to me what I'm doing wrong!!
Review: Monique, a mature woman must face the facts that she needs to do some soul searching cause at 40 years old, her life is crumbling and it is not everyone around her. Monique has decided to go on a voluntary sabbatical from men. She is going to do some deep down soul searching and will not get involved with any man until she has turned herself inside out and right side up. As she moves back to her moms hometown, and is faced with a family crisis, she indulges in working for her uncles bed and breakfast. Just as she thought this vacation from men would clear her thoughts, in walks the handsome,strong, construction workers supervisor, who will be in town for a while. Monique has men drooling over her and showing her mad attention, but the one and only man that she can even consider thinking about is not showing her the time of day. Mac is strong,responsible and when he first lays eyes on Monique red flags jump out at him. He realizes that he needs to let her be, his better judgement tells him to stay away,but as time goes on he realizes that his eys like what they see. After spending sometime together and becoming friends, they come into a bump in the road and Mac realizes that his first instincts of Monique were true, but even when your mind tells you one thing, your heart feels another. Monique realizes that she has to change and then as circumstances evolve she learns along with Mac that she has changed and definitely for the better. With this story you learn and will understand that physical beauty is only an attribute to getting the recognition of admirers, but is not the foundation of sustaining a relationship and finding a soul mate. You will also find that the one thing that you think makes you beautiful, you may be able to live without. What really makes a person is not where you work, how much money you make, where you live or where you are from, and not how long your hair is or flawless your skin is, your beauty is much deeper. Also, you will learn as Monique learned that it is not always about YOU!! If you are not careful, you may wake up and find that you are the only one that thinks that You are all that and then some, and then you will have YOU all to yourself, while those you had are involved and committed to someone else. I recommend that you read "Love Affair" along with this one, so you will have a complete understanding of Monique. This is not a smoochy, ooooooooooh romance, but a very real story of love lost and love found.
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Summary: MAKING A CHANGE
Review: STRAIGHT TO THE HEART - Is about making changes. Newly without a significant other, downsided out of a job, an extremly bad hair day, and to top all that, facing your 40th birthday alone. Monique Oliver is definitely in need of a change. Monique's first step to achieve a much needed change is to visit her mother's hometown of Washington, NC, and let the chips fall where they may, and thats precisely what happen. Taking on the responsibilities of running her uncle's Bed and Breakfast, and meeting Russell Mac McDonald. STRAIGHT TO THE HEART subject matter deals with real life issues. Secondary characters, Connie and Lyman played a big part in the story, never give up on first love. I enjoyed STRAIGHT TO THE HEART very much, and invite other readers to try it.
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Summary: RAW Rating: 4
Review: STRAIGHT TO THE HEART is the story of Monique Oliver's gradual
metamorphosis. Just months away from her fortieth birthday she is given
a pink slip by her employer of fifteen years, and about the same time
her boyfriend ends their relationship. Monique could not have imagined
she would be single, jobless and without prospects for either loss, at
this stage of her life.
After too many dismal relationships, she has sworn off men until she
recaptures her emotional balance. But behind each dark cloud is a silver
lining, and for Monique it is an offer to run a bed and breakfast in her
mother's hometown, Washington, N.C. She uses this opportunity to help her
uncle and his ailing wife and to get away from the issues confronting her
in Atlanta. When she arrives in Washington she feels like a man-magnet,
every one is flirting with her no matter their ages. But Monique is not interested, she is determined to stick to her resolution, that is until
she sees contractor Russell MacDonald. But, there is a hitch, Russell is
not the flirting kind and certainly not with Monique, he thinks she
already gets too much attention. Monique wants to change his mind, but
she must first change her ways.
Bettye Griffin has written a lightly comical story with the warmth and
sincerity of a small town. The secondary characters add just the right
filler for the story and they compliment the lives of the hero and the
heroine. The pull of STRAIGHT TO THE HEART beckons readers in a way I
have come to expect from this author. This is a good summer read.
Reviewed by aNN
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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