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  • Adverse Intentions

    Adverse Intentions

    by Cher-Rhonda Woodard-Lynk
    • Rated 2 stars

    “Minister Eric Roberts believes in helping the congregation as well as himself to anything that he desires, he believes he should have; to include his Range Rover, mansion, Armani suits, cash, and even other women. Minister Roberts has everything but the one thing he wants he can't have, the beautiful Angelique. Minister Roberts; has been run out of Chicago, with a one way ticket to Australia or jail for his ungodly behavior. Leaving his wife Vanessa basking in the unknown.

    Vanessa, searching their home for any clues of his disappearance, finds more than she wanted; money, videos, and letters to a woman named Angelique. Armed with proof of his deception, Vanessa packs up and sets her memories ablaze as she drives into her future.

    R&B singer Angelique, signed with Steady Beat Production Company, and married her manager Jerid. Who unbeknown to Angelique helped to run Minister Roberts out of town.

    There is a cornucopia of characters dispersed throughout this story that at times caused me a bit of confusion. But each characters story leads back to Minister Roberts, extending his reach back into Chicago pulling stings at any cost to make Angelique his own, no matter what he has to do or harm to make it happen.

    The author presented a good story line but the many typos caused such a distraction the story didn't flow as it could have.

    Melody Vernor-Bartel
    Readers Paradise
    2 bookmarks
    ”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Thursday, March 31, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • It's Morning

    It's Morning

    by Elaine Flowers
    • Rated 4 stars

    “It's Morning: Torn Lovers and Their Stories is a compilation of two novellas and one short story, each one, a love triangle involving one woman and two men. (Now that's a twist right?) "Never As Good As The First Time" is the one which spoke most to my heart. It's a novella with high school sweethearts Germaine and Melinda who try to rekindle their relationship after reuniting at their ten-year reunion.

    In the short story "The Letter," Mr. Unknown quietly admires his neighbor, Mahogany for months, with no game move made until he discovers a love letter under his door from her. In "Daddy's Maybe", the two potentials for fatherhood, Calvin; Kendra's husband and Brad; Kendra's white lover, give us the details of their triangle while both are hoping to be the baby daddy.

    I enjoyed this compilation very much; I especially enjoyed how Ms. Flowers placed "The Letter" in-between the sheets of the novellas. All three held my interest from beginning to end they were developed well and moved at just the right pace. I would also like to add neither story stumbled over the other. As I was reading I keep thinking OMG why are we so self absorbed, stop being selfish but then I remembered something from the Book of Books, something we were taught by an ancestor from the first century; in his book Jeremiah says "the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure". Who can understand it?


    What a good read!!


    Missy

    ”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Thursday, March 31, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • My Son's Ex-Wife
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Chauncey Graham, former Pastor of Holy Rock Ministries, a man who severely loved the God he served, and his First Lady Audrey Graham, who served proudly at his side. But when tragedy strikes Chauncey, will his faith prove enough to pull them through? Or will the secrets the First Lady holds shake the faith of all it touches, or will it be their demise?

    Stiles Graham, second generation Pastor of Holy Rock Ministries, since his beloved father has stepped down because of failing health. Once married to Rena, a beautiful woman who loved the Lord almost as much as Stiles did. Divorced because of Rena's indiscretion, will Stiles learn to forgive her or will his anger become his undoing.

    Rena Graham, former wife of Stiles, banished with shame of her indiscretions and lies. Can she continue to run from her past, or will her past continue to run after her.

    Francesca, the baby of the family, who has her own secrets, that become a bitter pill for her, playing havoc in her life as she tries to quiet the demons inside. Can she strip away the stench of her past? Will she remember the God she once served loves her through the good as well as the bad?

    This family of God, who preaches and teaches thru their Ministry the word, learn forgiveness when with their own secrets and misgivings prove otherwise?

    I love how the author touched on the subject of health,throughout the story. Giving a glimpse of what can happen to the temple we call our bodies.

    This book showed us that even those we trust to lead us spiritually have problems of their own, they are human not above faults, and failures. But it also reminds us that you can come to God and lay your problems at his feet and whatever it is, just trust and believe. God can do anything but fail!

    This book was provided by the author for review.

    Melody Vernor-Bartel
    Readers Paradise
    4 bookmarks


    ”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Thursday, March 31, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Come Sunday Morning

    Come Sunday Morning

    by Terry E. Hill
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Hezekiah Cleaveland is the pastor of New Testament Cathedral in California. He's married to the beautiful and ambitious to a fault Samantha Cleaveland; who happens to be the dynamo behind Pastor Cleaveland's television ministry. Samantha's ambitions cause her to often times become so cruel to the ministers and staff members of the church she leaves tears in her wake.
    Together they are building a new 20,000 seat, forty-five million dollar mega church while homelessness plagues their city. Advocates for the homeless as well as the homeless themselves are not shy about verbalizing their feelings about the new building. One such mantra which caused even this reader to pause was from an elderly woman "how can you justify spending forty-five million dollars on a building that will only be open on Sunday mornings when you know that every night, of the year, thousands of men, women and children live and die on the streets of this city?" Pastor Cleaveland feels that since his ministry has given to the homeless plight over the last ten years they should be grateful for the handouts and not worry about his new church.

    Come Sunday Morning shines the flashlight on greed, resentment and lavish lifestyles lived by this mega couple. But deferred dreams and empty souls present one bad decision after another which leads to murder in the church pulpit come Sunday morning. At times the book was a too little wordy. I felt the author was trying to impress me with how the Cleavelands lived. All in all it was a good read.

    Hill's new novel offers a first-hand account of what could go wrong when a pastor isn't called as a shepherd but as a power hungry man.

    review book provided
    Missy - Readers Paradise
    3 book marks
    ”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Thursday, March 31, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Incendiary
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Incendiary is written as a letter novel or epistolary novel, of a woman living in London who lost her husband and young son of 4 years 3 months old to Osama Bin Laden' act of terroism. In telling her story she recounts the community she lives in, the very thing she was doing at the time they were killed and she explains a plethora of emotions she is left to deal with; in the early part of the letter. She says "I want to be the last mother in the WORLD who ever has to write you a letter like this".
    The book is divided into four parts, one for each of our seasons starting with spring ending in the winter. The letter writer is a working class housewife whose husband worked as a cop in bomb disposal.

    Their day starts as normal as any other except on this Saturday while taking his son to a football match him and his son is blown to bits, leaving the only identifiable trace; his teeth. Meanwhile back at the house the wife is reaching an orgasm in a sorbid affair when the unthinkable happens at the football stadium.

    Surprisingly the letter writer doesn't sound like she is grieving; I hear more guilt than anything. Yes, she was affected by the deaths in her own way but you really don't feel it in the story. What I felt while reading was the rants and raving of a woman gone mad, which when I think about it maybe its how Cleave wanted to show her grief. Incendiary wasn't about terrorism; its two main themes are loss and moving on. The loss of hope and life, the idea of moving on when everyone has gone back to THEIR normal lives, but out of the ashes of those affected HOW can they press forward.

    Cleave decision to give the narrator a London tongue, which was lost on this reader. In the very beginning I found myself looking up words which stopped the flow of the story. Words like sneering off, wankers and 1 nil to the arsenal, what is that?

    I wanted so badly to love this book, but the dialect was too frustrating for this English girl from America.

    Missy
    3 bookmarks
    (Paperback provided as a review book) ”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Thursday, March 31, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Color Struck

    Color Struck

    by Joel Tuck, Pamela Tuck
    • Rated 5 stars

    “See Amazon.com for our review under Urban Review”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Friday, October 22, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • When I Get Where I'm Going
    • Rated 5 stars

    “

    When I Get Where I’m Going
    By Cheryl Robinson

    Fans of Theodore “Tower” Evans, Porter Washington, Georgia Brown, and Olena Day, take note! Here’s the story of a tragedy that one family cannot seem to get away from, that is until they realize you gotta be in it to win it. Sisterhood is winning, moving pass family dysfunctions together and ultimately being free; is the winning ticket.
    When I Get Where I’m Going opens with a letter addressed to Heaven from her dad. In his letter it is his prayer that all of his letters are being forwarded to Heaven’s new address and all of his girls come together as a family. He also tells Heaven a secret he’s been keeping for quite some time; that aside from Hope she has another sister name Alicia Day; who at last contact lived in the Detroit area. Her father wants Heaven to search for her and bring unity between herself, Hope and Alicia. What these three sisters don’t know but will come to know and understand is each one of them has the cure for what ails the other.
    Ms. Robinson stories are written with a grand passion for her craft and the characters she introduces us to and When I Get Where I’m Going certainly doesn’t fall short. All the people I mentioned in the beginning of this review are taken from her previous books. They like Heaven, Hope and Alicia have left an impression on this reader. Throughout the book there’s a recurring theme that is never quiet; when you pour life into someone your life becomes blessed. I’m sure Alicia can say amen to that after she was told by Attorney Foxmoore that she was NOT going to be sued. You’ll have to read the book to find out more about that. (Smile)
    When I Get Where I’m Going is a story of pain, regrets, family dysfunction, celebration and how sisterhood is the beginning to overcoming it all. I’m glad I had the opportunity to meet Alicia in Robinson’s previous book “In Love with a Younger Man and Heaven Jetter at her blogspot back in March.
    Missy
    5 book marks
    Readers Paradise




    ”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Thursday, September 16, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Living Under The Influence
    • Rated 5 stars

    “
    Living Under the Influence by Deborah Pettis

    Paul had much to say about Christian living; when we think about choosing someone for a task we look at the time spent doing a thing. God looks at our obedience while we are in our wilderness moments and how we handle trials and tribulations. It is that which gives Christians the endurance and influence to live everyday believing in the Holy Spirit; our faith. I believe those trials and tribulations are some of the same challenges Paul struggled with, which is why God choose him to write most of the New Testament.
    This inspirational book walks the reader through the authors’ interpretation of Galatians 5; 22-23 fruits of the spirit. As we journey along the way we are mandated to show the light of Christ, to bring others to God. I enjoyed how the author did her exegesis of Ephesians 4; 32; forgiveness, true forgiveness. I struggle with and in Chapter 5 I found my help. My help came from a simple sentence on page 19; “If God didn’t forgive you for your sins of omission as well as commission what would happen to you”? I will refer to this sentence often.
    Living under the Influence is a little over 35 pages long and includes an introduction and conclusion. Each chapter is titled by a fruit and details are given along with a few scripture references to assist understanding of that fruit. Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Meekness, and Self control; you can chew your way through or nibble on one fruit a day to free your soul.
    I believe the language is easy enough for those of us on milk and challenging enough for those on solid food. Ms. Pettis made a claim that reading Living under the Influence is a must read and I happen to agree. Don’t pass up an opportunity to plant fruit so that others can eat it.
    Missy
    5 book marks




    ”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Tuesday, August 10, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Powder Necklace: A Novel

    Powder Necklace: A Novel

    by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
    • Rated 5 stars

    “See my review at:
    http://www.urbanreview.com on September 1st

    Missy
    ”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Monday, August 9, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Woman's Revenge

    A Woman's Revenge

    by Tiffany L. Warren, Sherri L. Lewis, Rhonda McKnight
    • Rated 5 stars

    “A Woman's Revenge is a collection of three confronting short stories, that's not short on ideas or characters. It's an effective display of why "we are to follow the Lord Jesus' command to "Love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us" (Matthew 5:44), leaving the vengeance to God."

    Tiffany Warren opens the curtain with a "Slim Chance" as Nadine Robinson leaves her Georgia condo in the hands of her sister for 365 days to pursue a life altering decision; gastric bypass surgery things aren't what they use to be. Her decision to leave town without communicating her intentions to her loved ones quickly prove to be the wrong answer.
    Upon her return to town and her old life she receives no support from her mom or dad regarding her decision and the love of her life is engage to her best friend. In Nadine's mind if she dropped much of her 300lbs Jamel would marry her. Like Nadine we believe God can do a mighty thing but we don't believe He will.

    Exits Nadine and enters Sabrina Rogers, who treats her relationship with God like a bath. Which she only engage in when she's dirty or sore. Fortunately for Sabrina His grace is sufficient and His word is never returned void, God continues to offer new mercies every day. "The Sweet Taste of Revenge" is a story of young love. As an assistant; in more ways than one to Blake Harrison who's in the running to becoming partner in the firm where he works Sabrina dreams of her life as Mrs Blake Harrison. Estranged from family and friends her relationship with Blake takes a turn she never expects and with no one close to talk to, Sabrina reminiscence on times spent with her good friend Janine. As the story unfolds Blake ask Sabrina to marry him. With an engagement ring and a promise of marriage, Sabrina is on cloud 9; that is until she realizes she isn't the only future Mrs. Harrison. Even when she couldn't be Nadine's friend Janine was praying for her and as you know prayer changes things. In full revenge mode Sabrina begins to feel bad for Blake and starts to think the 10 steps to revenge plan.

    Exits Sabrina and enters Tamera Watson, in "A Piece of Revenge" I had to ask myself what's a wife to do when her husband connive her out of not only her money but grant funding which was to be used towards her dream. Do you get even or go get your money? Tamera decides to go get her money and along the way she meets Kemuel Powers of Powers Investigations. She hires him to help her make sense of the mess Leon her husband has made for her. Unable to believe what her best friend and a cop already knows Tamera heads home to see if her husband's favorite jersey is in his closet. Once the closet door is opened she doesn't have to look for the shirt her mind sends an instant message to her heart. She immediately knows he is gone along with her $180,000.

    Throughout each story A Woman's Revenge never waste words and never flowering up simple ideas. The storyline flowed and the characters were strong and stayed true to who they are. Even if you usually wouldn't consider a collection of stories; this is a must read and remember longer isn't necessarily better.

    Missy
    Readers Paradise
    5 book marks”

    Reader's Paradise wrote this review Friday, August 6, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
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