Review: Excellent story, Not the best execution, but promising
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2012
The story is interesting: a middle class, educated, extremely successful black nonfiction writer falls for an up and coming white rapper after they meet backstage at the Letterman show.The story is very good, even sweet in parts. And you genuinely believe the struggle Caroline is going through trying to square her attraction to someone so different, and the portrait of Rick as a struggling artist tormented by writer's block, a troubled past, and his attraction to a woman so unlike his groupies - so out of his league. The author's use of dialogue to tell background and give insight into characters is ambitious, but not very well executed. Most of the time it comes off stilted and as if you walked in to the middle of a conversation - and not in a juicy way. But it's promising and with more practice this is a literary device that works beautifully. It's definitely a skill worth fine tuning.That said, the author has a great ear for dialogue and cadence, so wading through some awkward passages is worth it. The romance brings the heat.  I'll definitely check out more of her books to see how she stretches as a writer. [Really, with the right editor this book would be golden.] As a black woman with a white husband, IR romances are the best kind.