Review: If You Like Reality Shows & Fairy Tales, This Is For You!!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2013
I really wanted to like this book. The plot, while not original (Roslyn Hardy Holcomb's Try A Little Tenderness is much better), should have been a fairy tale come true. It was more like a really bad blaxplotation movie meet reality show reunion with a little bit of Pretty Woman and CSI mixed in. I don't believe that the author had a clear vision for this 584 page length tome.There were too many details repeated unnecessarily over and over again. There were entirely too many characters and it was near impossible to keep them all straight, especially considering that some of the brothers were married or involved with family members of their spouses. There were too many coincidences that were just not believable. There was entirely too too much drama. The brothers fought each other (though the fights were justified). The spouses/girlfriends fought each other. There was too much jealousy. One of the brother's at one time was going to become a psychologist. If he had, he would have made a killing off his family alone. The use of racism was overdone and I'm not sure if the author really hit the mark since most of the spouses were mixed with something.The author was so all over the place. The constant references to 'popular' music and entertainers was too much. The heroine was very well versed to be 22 years old and knew all types of genres of music, even songs that were popular long before she was a teenager. Every other chapter there was some big relevation or the heroine was running away. This book could have possibly worked as a continuity. As a single volume, it fell flat for me. I don't know who the readers are that gave it five stars, but I would love to ask them if they are paid spokespersons.