Review: JUST YOU
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
This was a really good interracial story.  In which not only are you crossing color barriers but socioeconomic road blocks as well.  Both didn’t seem too much for Justin but they were at first for Portia.  She had been not only hurt by her inner most circle but they betrayed her trust.So, when they actually started seeing each other she kept it a secret.  Mainly out of protection I believe due to her English accent she came off as snobbish and just mean.  When they are out to lunch and a friend from works sees them she jumps up and says they just ran in to one another and will she join them.  Then she will not make eye contact with Justin which makes Justin mad so he gets mad and heads back to work.  What pisses him off she had just had sex with him that morning.  After that Justin will not talk to her, email her or text her anymore except to say it’s over.She goes to his home on the bad side of town and ends up meeting his family which makes him even madder.  His mom and brothers like her and offer to take this litter brother to school if he wants to sleep over her house.  He says no.  But they work out some things and he does and she talks him into going to dinner to meet her folks.  She dislikes her folks a great deal and she had left them behind in California when she moved there to New York.  While they were eating Justin gets a call saying from his mother saying that there was an emergency and that Justin was needed at the hospital now.  He apologizes and gets up to leave and her parents never say they hope all is okay, nothing.  She just shakes her head and leaves with him after a few choice words for them.  This night and the next several nights are tuning points in their, on again off again relationship.This was a short story that shows you what family is all about but what and how harsh and hurtful family can be.  It also shows us how we look at someone without really knowing them.  Assign judgment as these two characters do to each other.  He’s thinking she is rich, she’s thinking he was a gossip and a player just trying too hard to get in any girls pants.Also, how we believe how others around us will take our different relationships.  So, weather we are trying to hide it, protect it or keep it safe for just the two of you it shows as you are ashamed.  Talking is the best especially for this couple considering their backgrounds.  I think you will enjoy the webbed backgrounds of these two.  I give it 4 stars.  Provided by net galley.