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Title: Living Large by Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson, Francis Ray ISBN: 0-451-20765-3 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Great Anthology from 4 Wonderful Writers!!!!!
Comment: LOVED IT!!! I've read every anthology written by these authors. This was definitely another great one in the spririt of WELCOME TO LEO'S.
Romantic fiction is first and foremost, a suspension of reality with fantasy. An escape. Read regular-length romances if you find the pace of a novella too fast. There isn't a lot of room to have well-developed subplots, etc. But these 4 writers are not to be missed in whatever format their stories appear!
REUNION by Rochelle Alers: I'm huge fan of Ms. Alers. It was wonderful to read of Elaine and Reuben's romance. I love the friends-turn-into-lovers theme. And the ending was especially funny!
SURPRISE! by Donna Hill: I had no idea the heroine would turn out to be pregnant! Ms. Hill did a good job showing the interaction and relationship between Elizabeth and her grown adopted children. Vincen't response to his wife's pregnancy could not have been anything other than what it was. Nicely done.
BARE ESSENTIALS by Brenda Jackson: Ms. Jackson's love scenes are some of the best in the biz and she never disappoints. She's written a funny romance that really drew me in. I can't wait for a follow-up story featuring Dominique's sister, Michelle.
STRICLY BUSINESS by Francis Ray: This was the sweetest story of the bunch. Ms. Ray did a great job of showing Garret's patience in dealing with Monica after her hurt.
None of the men in this anthology were subservient to their women by any means. They were simply men in love. Great to see the large-size women get some play!
Thanks for showing assertive Black women taking care of their business. Contrary to popular opinion, there are Black men and women with money who know how to manage it. Subscribe to Black Enterprise if you don't believe it.
If you're looking for someone to constantly hammer home the message "lose weight," "exercise," this isn't the book for you. Come on, a romance is not supposed to be a picture of your everyday life. If you want that, write a memoir!
Rating: 3
Summary: If you are in to romance.....
Comment: If you are in to strictly romance with no reality this is the book for you.
Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson and Francis Ray are all talented and successful authors, but these stories did not really catch me. I rushed through the book just to finish it.
Reunion by Rochelle Alers was okay. Friends lose touch and 25 years later they reconnect after one of them gets divorced, I will have to leave you there....
Surprise by Donna Hill.......oh boy. Check this out, over 50 years old and pregnant, need I say more.
Bare Essentials by Brenda Jackson.....just a little bit of reality in that one.
Strictly Business by Francis Ray....Almost 30 year old female and you're a virgin...ok possible, but you meet a man and 5 weeks later you marry him because you are scared that you are going to lose him to another woman if you go on you're plan trip to Rome............I heard of shotgun weddings but dayum!!!!
I really did expect more from these authors.
Later.....
Rating: 4
Summary: Beyond the numbers.
Comment: LIVING LARGE is a collection of four novellas about full figure
women who exemplify that sexy is defined by more than the numbers.
REUNION by Rochelle Alers
Forty-two year old divorcée Elaine Stewart is ready to start living
her life again. The occasion is her twenty-fifth high school reunion.
Elaine is quite comfortable with her size and evidently so is Rueben
Whitfield. Once the class geek, he is now a sucessful Long Island
real estate broker. Rueben has cleaned up very well and is anxious
for the reunion; he still harbors the boyhood crush he had on Elaine.
SURPRISE by Donna Hill
Fresh from her two week stay at a health spa in Arizona, fifty-two year
old Elizabeth Howell is elated but also nervous. She cannot wait until
her husband sees her, she plans to put a spark back in his eyes. But she
has some news that could shake up their marriage, and although Elizabeth
has faith in the strength of their love, she wonders how this news will
affect their lives.
BARE ESSENTIALS by Brenda Jackson
Still feeling the insecurity from a broken engagement, Dominic Kincaid
cannot fathom getting involved again. On her morning jogs she encounters
a fine brotha checking her out, so she changes her scheduled jogging time.
When he shows up in her court room sending lustful telepathic messages she
takes a recess. Undaunted, he follows her into her chambers and the
honorable Judge D. Kincaid may accept a plea bargain and rule that she
does indeed need certain essentials.
STRICTLY BUSINESS by Francis Ray
Monica Jones has evicted her trifling live-in boyfriend, and he tells
her "A woman your size can't be choosy." So Monica is unprepared for
the interest by one of the company's newest clients. But she has sworn
off men for a while and she especially does not want to mix business
with pleasure. Garret is a determined man, he sees Monica as a sexy
woman and he wants to get personal.
The authors share how each of these ladies learn to live magnanimous
lives. They send the message that some men's preferences are for
women who can aptly fill a strong pair of arms. This is an excellent
feel good book.
Reviewed by aNN
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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Title: The Best Man : Four Sensuous Novellas by Brenda Jackson, Cindi Louis, Felicia Mason, Kayla Perrin ISBN: 0312982186 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 17 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Little Dare by Brenda Jackson ISBN: 0373765339 Publisher: Silhouette Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.25 |
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Title: The Savvy Sistahs by Brenda Jackson ISBN: 0312315120 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Whole Lotta Love by Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson, Monica Jackson, Francis Ray ISBN: 0451210905 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Thorn's Challenge by Brenda Jackson ISBN: 0373765525 Publisher: Silhouette Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.25 |
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