Author Archive

Say Amen Again by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

By • Oct 5th, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

The spirited Houston congregation featured in ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Let the Church Say Amen and Everybody Say Amen has a major scandal unfolding—and, as always, the outspoken Rachel Jackson Adams is at the heart of the drama.



Too Hot for TV by Cheris Hodges

By • Aug 10th, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

Classically trained actress Imani Gilliam is gifted, beautiful—and broke. Facing eviction, her only hope of staying afloat is to do the reality TV show, “Let’s Get Married.” The show pairs up single strangers, and viewers vote for who should be united in wedded bliss. Imani is only looking to be united with a paycheck—until she locks eyes with a fellow contestant. . .



Eye For An Eye by Dwayne S. Joseph

By • Aug 9th, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

Lisette, the flawless beauty with the take-no-prisoners attitude is back! Along with her partners, Marlene and Aida, Lisette ruins marriages at the request of desperate, wealthy wives willing to pay large sums to stick it to their husbands. Control is what it’s all about, and that’s just what they give back to the wives.



The Bum Magnet by K.L.Brady

By • Aug 9th, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

She’s a savvy, successful real-estate agent with a quick wit, a low tolerance for BS, a gorgeous size-14 body, and a thirst for top shelf vodka. Despite her dream house, luxury car, and appetite for life’s best—like fine dining and hot men—she seems to have her own special talent for attracting players. Why do all of her ex-lovers belong in the Losers Hall of Fame?



D.I.V.A. Don’t Get PLAYED by Shay Williams-Garrett

By • Aug 9th, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

After cheating death four times; once after being shot in the chest by a stray bullet, once as a passenger when the driver fell asleep behind the wheel of a car, once after suffering congestive heart failure a few days after the birth of her four year old son and once after a minor heart attack cause by a major heart break compounded by a series of life’s stresses, nothing could prepare Shay Williams-Garrett for the strength and wisdom that would be required to survive her attempted assassination after she “Accidentally Married Her Married Husband.”



Book Review for Money Can’t Buy Love by Connie Briscoe

By • Jul 15th, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

What would you do if you won five million dollars in the lottery? Buy your dream house, favorite car, start a business? Is your list of needs and wants longer than the prize money can carry you? In Author Connie Briscoe’s Money Can’t Buy Love, Lenora Stone finds out that money can do a lot of things, especially since she did not always have a lot of it.



Heat Wave by Donna Hill, Niobia Bryant and Zuri Day

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

New York is having a summer heat wave and three women are feeling it-and dealing with it-each in their own steamy way….
Summer Fever by Donna Hill

Nina Forbes is excited to house sit in the Hamptons-but her handsome neighbor, Barbados native Ian Harrison, excites her even more. Soon the two are sharing conversation, kisses…and sizzling sleepovers. Ian promises to keep in touch after he returns home in the fall. But as the days pass, Nina fears their passion was just summer fever…



Sixty Nine by Pynk

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

It’s New Year’s Eve 2008, and best friends Magnolia Butler, Rebe Richardson, and Darla Clark, all born in 1969, are about to turn the dreaded 4-0 in January 2009. Magnolia, a New Year’s Day baby, is childless, and always a bridesmaid, never a bride.



Stay the Night by Chilufiya Safaa’s

By • Mar 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

Adana’s three sisters found the loves of their lives and lived in Africa fulfilling dreams and enjoying the benefits of the Mazrui’s empire, while Adana remained in Virginia enjoying her life as a partner in a prestigious law firm, fighting difficult cases.



Last Bus Out by Beck McDowell

By • Mar 22nd, 2011 • Category: Book Review 2011

LAST BUS OUT tells how Courtney Miles stole a bus, charged past a police roadblock, and argued with a National Guardsman who threatened to lock him in the makeshift jail at the Greyhound Bus Station. Sick with worry about his missing grandmother, he drove his passengers to safety, then went back into the city at midnight to help others.