Reviews for Genevieve [sound recording]
Library Journal
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Chick-lit sensation Dickey (Drive Me Crazy) presents this sizzling, sexy, downright gritty love story about a professional African American couple living the good life in Los Angeles until their pasts come back to haunt them. The narrator's wife, Genevieve (pronounced ZHAWN-vee-EHV), receives a phone message from Grandpa Fred that Willie Esther Savage is dead. An intense unveiling of ugly secrets ensues as the couple travels to Odenville, AL, to bury the woman who was the reason Genevieve changed her name, smokes "bush," and cannot be the sexually free woman the narrator desires. The narrator is shocked to meet the lower-class family he never knew existed, with its violent and crass ways. But when "sister" Kenya comes on the scene, he's overcome by her physical magnetism. This book reminds us that marriage vows are sacred and that sex is never just sex but has its consequences. However, it's Dickey's aplomb in granting his characters the freedom to hit, holler, and ride their steamy, explicit passions that will clinch this book's popularity. For all popular fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1/05.]-Jennifer Baker, Seattle P.L. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Genevieve's husband loves her passionately but still cheats with her sister. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly
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Bestseller Dickey (Drive Me Crazy) offers more sex-drenched melodrama with an instantly engrossing story about a couple whose marriage is tested by secrets both familial and sexual. Beautiful, independent "financial guru" Genevieve Forbes (n?e LaKeisha Shauna Smith) and her husband, a medical research scientist (and the novel's unnamed narrator), are by-products of broken families. Genevieve ran away after suffering intolerable abuse by her murderous father and cruel grandmother, and the husband's rural Texas childhood was marred by his mother's death and a virtually absent, errant father. The death of Genevieve's grandmother Willie Esther forces both to return to her backwoods Alabama hometown for a reunion that stirs up old grudges, reopens still-painful wounds and sparks reckless familial infighting. While the narrator finds himself mildly amused by Genevieve's aging, folksy relatives, he's immediately salivating over Genevieve's hootchy-cootchy sister, Kenya. Their red-hot affair shifts into high gear just as Kenya's roughneck fiance, Deuce, pays them a surprise visit and more secrets about Genevieve's childhood leak. Dickey creates a smidgen of suspense around the survival of the couple's marriage and the revelation of various secrets, but that's hardly his main goal. What the novel lacks in plot it makes up for in explicit sex and hot-tempered fireworks. Agent, Sara Camilli. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal
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A husband's affair with his sister-in-law, tragic pasts, and "steamy romance and shocking betrayal" make for an indulgent experience. From the author of Drive Me Crazy. Simultaneous Dutton hardcover. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
