Review: This book passed the VIB test!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
An Arrangement of Love hits the spot, as a book lover it takes a lot of my to get engrossed in a book i will read it until I'm done (even if that involves using sleep time to make it happen). I am book on this series, once i hit 89% and realize theres no way its finished soon i knew i wasn't going to like the end, and i was right…because it goes into book two.Jasmine has your stereotypical background, black girl from the projects, doesn't know her father, tons of siblings in jail and supporting her mother. The one thing that people tend to forget in this stereotype is with hard work and perseverance a lot of men and women like Jasmine get out of that and make better situations for themselves. A Harvard grad Jasmine gets the opportunity of a life time to work for hottie Chase Stone. From chapter one you become captivated into their story, nothing you would imagine hits you with each line. I can normally guess whats going to take place in a book within the first chapter and though i had some guesses on some situations, i was taken by surprise with a lot more.I like Jasmine, i want to be her friend, but i also am worried about the arrangement she entered. Nothing about it specks good except the forth night. Jasmine and her best friend Vivian are like sisters, they remind me of my sister and i with their one liners and ability to know each other. One of my favorite things of theirs is their VIB test which i will be stealing."Each time i met someone i gave them the V.I.B. test. Vivian coined the term for vibrator, ice cream and book test. Basically, if i would rather spend time at night at home with my vibrator, a pint of Ben and Jerry's chunky monkey ice cream and a steamy romance novel, then he'd failed the V.I.B test."Some of Jasmines insecurities i understood."I was the black new girl. I shook the thought away. Stop that. I had a tendency to be insecure when it came to race, always wondering if people were judging me used on bad stereotypes and if i was confirming those stereotypes"Some things are hard to put into words, racism sometimes can be but Kenya managed to get that across in ways i have never been able to. Now don't think because I'm so in love with the characters the romance isn't there. Some scenes were so hot i needed to take a mental five minute break to be able to continue. Like all relationships its a tangled web that man only gets tangled more and more.I have my guesses on whose POV the epilogue is from, i feel it has to be Dawn but a part of me doesn't want to discount Wendy. Great book, great chemistry, hot scenes, and a whole lotta drama![...]