Review: Straight Out of a Romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2010
Deatri King-Bey's short story Trapped in Paradise is the tale of Saundra Write, a woman who has been hurt emotionally and physically by her ex-husband. Although it has been years since the divorce, Saundra still carries around the hurt and pain. She refuses to allow anyone to get that close to her heart again. That is until she meets "the tall, dark and all too fine" Jeremy King.Saundra's sister, Miranda, is a travel agent and wants her sister to open her heart to new opportunities and potential relationships. So Miranda sets Saundra up on a cruise with the hopes that she will be trapped in paradise. In addition to her luggage Miranda encourages Saundra to take a few of her romance novels with her, books that Saundra would not normally read. Little did she know her life would begin to feel like something out of a romance novel.Trapped in Paradise by Deatri King-Bey read like a typical story straight out of a romance. With the love at first sight and the happily ever after ending, the outcome was a bit predictable. However, the length of what it took to get them to their fairytale ending was not predictable at all. Ms. King-Bey even had some real life authors and reviewers as cameos in the story, which I thought was a nice treat. The author also has a sneak peak of a three e-book short stories collection titled: Love's Desire (the last one being my favorite.) All in all this was a good read and I look forward to reading more by this author. I recommend this book to diehard romance readers and lovers of short stories.I received a copy of the e-book from the author for review purposes.Jennifer CoissiereAPOOO BookClub