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Review Date: 6/17/2012
Helpful Score: 1
Daddy Long Stroke by Cairo is not for the sexually faint of heart! I found myself blushing from page 1. I admit that the strong graphic content threw me off at first, but after I got into the book, I saw what the author was doing. Alexander Maples, aka Alley Cat, thinks that he is Gods gift to womenand the women that he deals with treat him as such. They know that he is sleeping with several different women, but they still flock to him like ants to a picnic. Some of them lavish him with expensive trips, gifts, and money in hopes that he will pick them to be the one. Alley Cat is the epitome of emotionally unavailable, but that doesnt stop women from becoming emotionally attached to him. For the most part, he wasnt openly disrespectful to these women. He gives them the sex and attention that they crave in exchange for the money and expensive things that he wants. I felt myself feeling sorry for these women because they would do all of these things for this man and he didnt care one bit about them. Once you look past the graphic sex scenes, I feel like the author is giving us a candid look into the mind of some men. As women, we tend to be so caught up in nurturing and fixing a man, that it doesnt even dawn on us that he doesnt want to be fixed and is playing on our emotions to get what he wants. This was a fast read, and I would probably recommend it to my friends who are fans of erotic novels.
Review Date: 5/24/2012
Imagine waking up in a cave, alone, injured, and not knowing how you got there. That is how we are introduced to Shori, the main character in Octavia Butler's Fledgling. On the outside, Shori appears to be a young preteen girl. In actuality, she is a 53 year old Ina vampire. Shori journeys outside of the cave to find a community that has been burned to the ground. She's assumes that this community was once her home. Lost and hungry, Shori begins walking away from the rubble, down a lonely highway. The stranger that picks her up is oblivious to the change that both of their lives are about to undergo. I really enjoyed this novel as it is not your average vampire novel. Its hard for me to fit it into any one genre. I would say it has elements of mystery, paranormal romance, and even a little history.
Review Date: 10/8/2008
This was a good book...it was easy to read...I think it took me one night to finish the whole thing. The characters were realistic and the story was believeable.
Review Date: 10/30/2011
This book was selected as book of the month for my book club. I am not a big fan of christian fiction, but this one was an exception. I could relate to many of the issues that were addressed throughout the story. I found it to be relevant to women in general, not just black women. I would reccomend it to anyone.
Review Date: 10/8/2008
This was a slow read...I had to make myself read it to the end...while the story was a bit hard to follow at times, the ending was better than I expected it to be
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