I carried this book with me more than my purse | Genevieve

AFTER A FAST START IT SLOWS TO A CRAWL | Genevieve | Eric Jerome Dickey

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	• Genevieve Eric Jerome Dickey Dutton Adult, 2005 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 193 reviews view larger image
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Hurting people hurt others.

This is the story of two sucessful, upper middle class, seemingly happily married couple both hiding secrets. Dr Genevieve Forbes a successful lady with 3 degrees, who keeps her maiden name, can advice on stock options etc but cannot provide her husband the sexual intimacy he craves and does not seem aware of his needs. The unnamed husband, an AIDS researcher who longs to sexually satisfy his wife (hence the many sex scenes to show what really happens in their bedroom). At first Genevieve seems like a cold, frigid fish to her husbands lusty banter and comes across as a wife who performs out of duty rather then enjoyment. This sets the scene for Mr G to be vulnerable to any women who is on his sexual level and he meets his sexual match when they travel down South to attend a relative's funeral. The story gets interesting from there and secrets on both sides are revealed that explains their personalities. I enjoyed this book but found it sad, I kept thinking Genevieve, her husband and Kenya all need therapy. For highly intelligent people they had the emotional intelligence of sand. I would give this 5 stars if not for the abrupt and highly unrealistic ending.

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I carried this book with me more than my purse

I love it. I reserved it in the library, and I had to buy it as soon as I was done. I LOVE IT.

AFTER A FAST START IT SLOWS TO A CRAWL

I read a fair number of Dickey's earlier books and found myself no longer reading African-American fiction because it started to feel like all of the stories were the same, same situations, same characters with different names. I have to admit that this story was definitely not the same as the other books and I was happy to find that.

After getting off to a fast start and bringing you into the book pretty fast you are quickly slowed down to the many pages of character development and boring relationship struggles that setup the conflict for the indiscretions that take place.

I really had a hard time getting through the book for a variety of reasons including the stale dialog between the couples, but I do admit that some of the angles that Dickey approaches the conversation from were very realistic relationship debacles that people have. Another thing that was hard to follow for some chapters was who all of the relatives were - you would find yourself saying "is that the relative on the mother's side or father's side" when often times it turned out to not be very relevant to the story. Lastly, I'll say that the sex scenes felt a little overdone after awhile to say the least.

Some of the findings in the story weren't that major, but I did find a major payoff at the end of the book when some things were revealed. I won't give any spoilers, but I will say that the end of the book redeemed the book as a whole where I would give it a half-hearted recommendation if someone were looking for a relationship book with a twist involving African-American characters.

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Eric Jerome Dickey, the six-time New York Times bestselling author of Drive Me Crazy, returns with a sizzling new novel of romance and betrayal.

Just how well do we ever really know the person sleeping next to us?

Sometimes we know everything.
Sometimes we can never know enough.

In Genevieve, Eric Jerome Dickey has crafted a masterfully twisted tale of intrigue, hidden identities, and self-discovery. It?s the tale of a man torn between the love of his beautiful wife and the sudden arrival of his wife?s sister?a mysterious and provocative woman who offers him the passion he craves, but at a steep price.

Both women harbor secrets, the answers to which appear to lie in a small Southern town filled with darkness, danger, and the promise of pain. Soon nothing is as it seems and no one is who they claimed to be, including the man caught in the middle. As the truth bubbles closer to the surface, everyone?s world threatens to fall apart.

In a story packed with revelations at every turn, Eric Jerome Dickey takes us on a journey filled with deception, careening down a highway bound for destiny . . . and disaster.

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