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TRR Favorite Books Reviewed

Those books rated at the top of our scale have been identified as TRR Favorites.  Check them out via the FAVORITES link.

A Second Helping: A Blessings Novel by Beverly Jenkins

A SECOND HELPING: A Blessings Novel is the continuation about the residents, foster parents and their foster children of Henry Adams, KS.  When we first met the residents in Bring on the Blessings, the town had financial hardships and was for sale on eBay.  Mrs. Bernadine Brown, who was looking for a new beginning, purchased the town.  When she arrived in town, she arrived with a vision to offer a home to children in need.  With the town’s support her vision was in action; the foster parents and foster children had new families and homes in Henry Adams, KS and the adventures began.  

If You Were My Man by Francis Ray

Rafael Dunlap is a successful hostage negotiator with the Myrtle Beach police department.  He has the reputation of being a lady’s man; however, he’s yet to meet one he’s willing to give his heart to.  While on an outing at a local seafood restaurant with coworkers, he has the pleasure of meeting the owner, Natalyia Fontaine.  He insists on asking her out on a date; when she turns him down he’s determined to get her to change her mind.  In his determination, he learns lessons in love he never knew existed. 

Be Careful What You Pray For by Kimberla Lawson Roby

After her recent divorce, Alicia Black is determined to focus on her future and not her past.  She’s actively writing her first novel with the hopes of it being published, while spending time with her family.  When she visits a local church with her world renowned father, Reverend Curtis Black, she meets Pastor J.T. Valentine, a pastor of his own church with a large congregation.  When the handsome Pastor Valentine inquires about her upcoming book, romance between the two blossoms.  While Alicia is thankful that her prayers have been answered and she marries for love, her new husband has another agenda.  She learns the truth about her new husband’s intentions and has to make some decisions and in doing so learn valuable life lessons. 

Reverend Feelgood by Lutishia Lovely

Lutishia Lovely has written an interesting account of a pulpit pimp with an interesting twist to why he is sexing the women of his congregation. Rev. Nate Thicke, senior pastor of the Gospel Truth Church of Palestine, Texas has to honor his family tradition of covering women of his church. A young man, only 28-years-old, his star is quickly on the rise in the Christian community as well as across the country. Rev. Thicke is trying to honor tradition in his family by feasting his sexual appetite on three family members, as well as other willing sisters in church. As he spends his time making women feel good, he notices Destiny, a young sister in the church that made his heart sing to a different tune than what he was accustomed to feeling. Although she is the granddaughter of Katherine Noble, a woman he has been covering for years, he sees no problem with covering her. Trouble is, good ole’ Reverend Thicke is about to find out that following traditions can cause another set of problems that will set the church on fire. 

Wildflowers by Lyah Beth Leflore

WILDFLOWERS invites the reader to take a journey with Chloe Davis Michaels as she experiences a rollercoaster ride of love, hate, fear and family.  After only a short time of anticipated marital bliss, Chloe realizes in Gregory Robinson III, she has found the devil reincarnated.  His mood swings and temper are frightening at best, and Chloe questions her poor judgment.  Will she allow this demonic man to control her life?  

Staggering Heights by D. Allen Miller

In STAGGERING HEIGHTS, Reva Hawthorne struggles with being poor and trying to be anything except like her mother, Victoria. Realizing her reality, she ends up becoming an exotic dancer while caring for her three children. Even though her future seems bleak, she can't let go of the American dream: a career, a husband and a beautiful home with a white picket fence. All she wants is to have the perfect life! 

Cotton Pickin' Paycheck: A 21st Century Journal of Escape From Slavery by Joan E. Gosier

COTTON PICKIN’ PAYCHECK:  A 21st Century Journal of Escape From Slavery by Joan E. Gosier wins the award for outstanding compilation of a life-journaling experience of her escape from corporate slavery to become a successful entrepreneur!  This brings you into the life of a young African-American girl who moved from the swift-boiling melting pot of New York to the simmering racist-ridden Virginia.  Gosier is witty and charming as she describes how she adapted to the tough realities that awaited her in Middlesex County, Virginia.  Her lessons are hard and difficult, yet soft and evolving.  Corporate America becomes no place for this author, no more than her ancestors found a permanent place in the cotton fields.  Gosier finds freedom as an entrepreneur...or does she?  

Lace & Honor by Sammie Ward

LACE & HONOR is the story of Sergeant Kayla Perry and her two friends, Specialist Marissa Poe and Liz Shupe, an administrative assistant.  All of them are assigned to the 32nd Combat Support Hospital at Fort Bradley, Maryland.  

Heartbreaker by De’Nesha Diamond, Erick S. Gray and Nichelle Walker

HEARTBREAKER is a compilation of three stories about strong black women who are out to rule the game and they don’t care what they have to do to get to the top.

 

Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It by JD Mason

Renetta Jones runs a very lucrative online lingerie business from her home.  Her models are like daughters to her and they share a close working relationship.  She is very wealthy and polished, which has not always been the case.  Still married to her abusive husband who is left bed stricken due to a stroke, she still holds onto the belief they are both being punished for past wrongs. 

Where There's Smoke 2: When The Smoke Clears by Terra Little

Alec “Smoke” Avery and Breanne “Anne” Phillips’s flame still burns for each other after twenty years.  They begin to build a life together with their college-bound son, Isaiah and their newest bundle of joy, Iris.  However, where there’s smoke…there’s flaming drama.  

Cursed To Death by L. A. Banks

In the fourth Crimson Moon novel, CURSED TO DEATH, Sasha Trudeau, shadow wolf and military agent, is back on the prowl and chaos emerges again. Sasha, Hunter, and the members of their team have returned to New Orleans, LA to attend the Seelie Fae’s Midsummer Night Ball. Instead of indulging herself in a little one on one time with her mate, Hunter, they are led to investigate the gruesome murder of a Phoenix. The unusual manner in which she dies and the strange clues left at the murder scene assist them in helping the Fae solve a string of similar ritualistic murders.