Starting off like always! By taking out a small amount of time to once again express my appreciation for all the authors that I’ve read this week.
I see your time, efforts, and dedication to your expression of art. And.
This week I can actually say that I’m back in my reading flow! Not so much in my posting flow again however…
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Ma’am, you have to show them what you mean…
SheReadsaLot to Audience:
Some stats about my week
- I completed 14 books this week (7 not posted)
- by 11 different authors
- totaling 3.273 pages
- making it 233.8 pages per book
- averaging 467.6 pages read per day
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Yeah… that reading to posting ratio?!
SheReadsaLot: I’ll do better next week… I think…
Overview of the books read/posted
- Absolute Fulfillment by Mrs. Kennedy B.
- Two’s Better by Mrs. Viano Oniomoh
- Still Forever by Mrs. D. Scott
- Through Troubled Weather by Mrs. Natisha Raynor
- Quiet as Kept by Mrs. Tracy Gray
- Breaking the Rules by Mrs. Aubreé Pynn
- Spinnin’ the Block by Mrs. Aubreé Pynn
Week Opener
I opened the week with Mrs. Kennedy B.‘s latest release, Absolute Fulfillment.
About Rennix, MMC, owner of Donuts (strip club that offers donuts), used to be in the streets. And has his sights set on Caya.
I didn’t know why she wouldn’t just let me see what was to her, it wasn’t like I was trying to fuck up her life or anything. I was tryna help her expand that.
B., Kennedy. Absolute Fulfillment. KMP. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Oh really Rennix, doesn’t have a clue as to why? This Rennix?
“So, that’s it? You’re just about to send me on my way after we just had sex?” Juicy, a very voluptuous stripper who had worked in the club for the last six months, stood before me fixing to fuss while she straightened her sequined top.
B., Kennedy. Absolute Fulfillment. KMP. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot: Welp…
Caya, FMC, hairstylist, single mother, and not willing to hear ANYTHING that Rennix is saying. For his own good.
“That look in your eyes and the way you keep licking your lips when your eyes find their way on everything but my face. You’re handsome, Rennix, but I promise I’m not your cup of tea. I’m crazy, baby. The voices in my head make me bad for a man like you.”
B., Kennedy. Absolute Fulfillment. KMP. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Maybe you should translate Caya’s statement for the audience?
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Caya doesn’t take disrespect… from anyone… And Rennix‘s single ways wouldn’t necessarily work in a relationship..
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Ma’am just tell them like it is! Because…
Caya before therapy:
SheReadsaLot to Audience: She’s doing better at the moment…
But if there is anything that can be said about Rennix? It’s that he is consistent!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Here you go again… Consistent? Rennix?! This Rennix?
I deliberately popped each pill from its round protector into the sink, then turned the water on and made sure they all went down the drain. I then discarded the holder and removed the rest of my clothes.
B., Kennedy. Absolute Fulfillment. KMP. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot to Audience: So yes, he shows his consistency maybe a bit different from the norm that is deemed acceptable…
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Ma’am Rennix is not at all sane!!! He really flushed her birth control pills?
Rennix:
…”I told you from jump I wasn’t nothing like any nigga you ever fucked with and I meant that. I told you I was ten down with you and I’m here for you, him, and the child we create out of love. Fuck all that overthinking anxiety you keep letting try to cripple us. We good and we gonna be good. Now come get in this bed and go the fuck to sleep unless you need some help with that.”
B., Kennedy. Absolute Fulfillment. KMP. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot: Yeah I’m toxic because….
Yep, he had me, ’cause for once and for this man, I shut the fuck up and melted into his embrace.
B., Kennedy. Absolute Fulfillment. KMP. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Ma’am just tell them your thoughts already!
SheReadsaLot to Audience: With this read you will have an unhinged MMC, who is respectful, and gets his point across. Maybe not in the most conventional of ways, but the message is clear. We get a FMC who knows what she wants, and doesn’t settle for less. Yes, she is a work in progress, but aren’t we all? And as the cherry on top Mrs. B. gives us a bit of mystery and suspense as well.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: So you said a lot. Did you like it?
SheReadsaLot: Sure did, maybe we should check on Rennix some more… He could be thirsty you know… Or maybe in need of a snack? A full course meal perhaps?
SheReadsaLot to Rennix:
I followed this up with Mrs. Viano Oniomoh‘s release from last month, Two’s Better, a New Adult/College/Queer Romance.
About Ofure (Fure), FMC, and Uzezi (Uzi), MMC. Who are best friends in college, and both virgins. They are waiting for their perfect first time.
Sex is a very vulnerable thing. I want to be in a place where I at least completely trust the person I’m doing it with. Where I know it’s guaranteed to be good, no matter what.”
Oniomoh, Viano. Two’s Better (The Perfect First Time Book 1). Viano Oniomoh Desires. Kindle Edition.
Uzi, proposes for them to share their first time.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: So what were we thinking?
SheReadsaLot:
I loved this read! Uzi and Fure really get down! And it’s sweet, and N-A-S-T-Y, and sensual! They have all the chemistry!!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: What really took it over the top for me, is the way Mrs. Oniomoh writes Black people!
SheReadsaLot: Yes… It’s refreshing to see Black people in different shapes, sizes, skin color, hair textures, identity..
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: And she did that without talking down on not one of them?!
SheReadsaLot and SheReadsaLot:
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Yes, this is some good stuff!.
Mrs. D. Scott released her second book in her Jennings Mafia Family, Still Forever.
Mrs. Scott started this book off stressing me out not even 8 pages in.
His command was law. Moscow and Haiti nodded without a rebuttal. “If he doesn’t end it. She dies,” he added coldly.
SCOTT, D. STILL FOREVER (Jennings Mafia Family Book 2) (p. 8). Kindle Edition.
Flashback to SheReadsaLot:
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Right? Because who do they think they are, to tell me who I can and cannot love?
SheReadsaLot: Well it’s the mafia… And they are The Elite
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: But let’s get back to the characters.
Still Forever is about Jaxon, MMC, the Second of the Jennings Mafia Family, the middle child, levelheaded and mild-mannered. In a relationship with the love of his life, Kennedy.
Kennedy, a psychologist and owner of Mind Over Matter, has been intrigued and in love with Jaxon from first meet. Only thing bothering her? His time handling skills. And decides to do something about it.
As a psychologist, I know that pulling a stunt like moving out to show him that I was serious is wrong. But as a human, with real feelings, who felt like I wasn’t being considered, it was my final resort to get him to understand how life would be without me. Seems like the only person who learned their lesson was me.
SCOTT, D. STILL FOREVER (Jennings Mafia Family Book 2). Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: What can we say about this?
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Mrs. D. Scott stressed me out!
Because if it wasn’t The Elite? It was Kennedy! If it wasn’t Kennedy? It was Jaxon!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: So what I hear you saying is… you ate it up?
SheReadsaLot:
Mrs. Natisha Raynor, released Through Treacherous Weather. Which is the final installment (book 9) in Mrs. Raynor’s Treacherous Twins series.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: This one had us conflicted!
SheReadsaLot: So conflicted!
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Let me tell you why!
I’ve been following this family from the first book, seen them deal with the circumstances handed them…
SheReadsaLot to Audience: And it was a LOT
Growing from their mistakes, opening themselves up for love, and found family.
And now we’re here. The last installment!
SheReadsaLot:
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: So you explained, now tell them who this story is about!
This time we follow Fatima, FMC, daughter of Wise. Fatima just finished college and started working at Justice’s youth group home and for her father.
And Trinity, FMC, Fatima’s aunt, who is single and mingling. Her tax bracket makes dating a bit more complicated.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Not everybody’s ego can handle their partner out earning them!
Grey, her grey sweatpants wearing hook up, acknowledges his position based on his observational skills.
“You’re a beautiful, successful woman. You have your shit all the way together and while I’m no bum, there’s no need to act like the things that I have are on the same level as yours. Most women in your position want to have fun with men like me. Not take us serious. When you kept it surface level so did I.”
Raynor , Natisha . Through Treacherous Weather (Treacherous Twins Book 9). Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: That went over well with Trinity..
SheReadsaLot:
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: We’re not doing too much with this one either right?
SheReadsaLot: Right, because Mrs. Raynor just released this one!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: So tell the audience what they’re getting with this read!
Through Treacherous Weather gives us two romantic story lines through Fatima and Trinity, which aren’t easily gained. Because Trinity has her ways about her…
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: I thought we decided to not do too much?
SheReadsaLot: We did…. but maybe just a little bit on Miss Trinity?
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Can’t we just leave it at, she gets her act together?
SheReadsaLot:
So while their road to love had some roadblocks, it was very much worthwhile. AND Mrs. Raynor gave us updates on the family. While also giving us some laughs throughout.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: So your feelings?
SheReadsaLot: I was happy to see them back, and I’m sad to say goodbye.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Did you enjoy it though?
Flashback of SheReadsaLot reading:
I decided to pick up Quiet as Kept by Mrs. Tracy Gray, a slow burn romance.
About Kept, MMC, who Mrs. Gray describes as a cinnamon roll,
Cinnamon Roll = An MCM who is exceptionally kind, sweet, and supportive. Not a pushover. A male character who will stand his ground when necessary, especially when it comes to protecting his partner.
Quiet as Kept by Mrs. Tracy Gray
he’s a developer, single father, deals with anxiety, and a mother wound.
And Xarielle, FMC, teacher, down on her luck, dealing with a lot just to survive.
So when Xarielle get’s hired by Kept for a live-in nanny position?
Xarielle:
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Don’t blame Xarielle one bit, because…
“…The Simpsons are dysfunctional as hell. …”
Gray, Tracy. Quiet as Kept. B. Love Publications. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot: Sure was!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Tell them what they’re getting with this read.
SheReadsaLot to Audience: You get some though, yet necessary, boundary setting…
“I don’t know you, and I don’t mess with you. I don’t want you cozying up to my daughters acting like you want to build with them.”
Gray, Tracy. Quiet as Kept. B. Love Publications. Kindle Edition.
Some hard conversations.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: That are very much necessary, and should’ve taken place way sooner.
SheReadsaLot: It was a lesson as well, because children consume and internalize a lot of what is spoken about around them, creating a lot of unnecessary hurt.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot:
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Continuing, you get love, a whole lot of love, a love and covering that they were both in need of!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: I don’t think so!
SheReadsaLot: Now what did I do?
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Ma’am this you?
SheReadsaLot: But I didn’t actually, say anything bad about her!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: You were thinking it though!
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Let’s just say that not everything is always at it seems, and I found out!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Ma’am you go and apologize to that woman!
SheReadsaLot to Kept’s mother:
In anticipation for Mrs. Aubree Pynn‘s release of Breaking the Rules, I picked up shorter reads. So I could pick it up as soon as she released.
SheReadsaLot and SheReadsaLot:
Breaking the Rules at it’s core is about finding the one that is worth you breaking your rules for. Acting this lesson out for us is Noble, MMC, (in negotiations for his next MLB contract) two days before he’s set to marry his fiancee.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: We’re not going to say it again.
SheReadsaLot: Yes we are!! That Fiancee?
And Savanhi, FMC, (dancer with a studio, supplements her income with exotic dancing), who is
“… so good to people who don’t deserve shit from you. ….”
Pynn, Aubree. Breaking the Rules: A Los Oceania Love Story (p. 26). APXCB, LLC. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: I think we all have been there at least once in our lives.
SheReadsaLot:
So when she arrives home to her boyfriend, who conveniently forgot to pick her up, in bed….
SheReadsaLot to Audience: That boyfriend?
Noble and Savanhi both decide to be through with love. But when true love comes calling, nothing can stop it from happening.
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Not even their rules!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: So another just released one, what do you want to share?
SheReadsaLot to Audience: This is a true pynnie read. You will get stressed out!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Because if there is something trifling people have a lot of?
SheReadsaLot: It’s the …
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Continuing…
You will get some hilarious side characters..
“You right, I am. But sometimes I just want a real chick, you know? Someone that’s going to see through the bullshit.” “And then…” Noble started, knowing his best friend. “I be gettin’ bored. I need that excitement, you know. Slice my tires, bust my windows, then fuck me like you hate me type shit.”.
Pynn, Aubree. Breaking the Rules: A Los Oceania Love Story. APXCB, LLC. Kindle Edition
SheReadsaLot to Mrs. Pynn: Ma’am I need that by the way!
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Excuse my side track!
You will get chemistry, love and laughs!
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: And what about the well deserved unaliving? Was it?
SheReadsaLot: It sure was, you know Mrs. Pynn never leaves us hanging like that!
For good measure, one last stomp to the chest to crush his heart.
Pynn, Aubree. Breaking the Rules: A Los Oceania Love Story. APXCB, LLC. Kindle Edition.
Week Closer
I closed out my week buddy reading with Twin. Our choice fell on Spinnin’ the Block by Mrs, Pynn once more.
About Eli, MMC, famous DJ, and owner of WSV. And his best friend Olivia, FMC, trying to make ends meet.
Audience to SheReadsaLot: How is Eli famous and his best friend is trying to make ends meet?!
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Thank you for asking!
Olivia and Eli were a best friend group of three. Just a few day before Eli and Fuego were set to come up, the unthinkable happens. Leaving Eli to go accomplish their dream by himself, with the help of Olivia.
Eli to Olivia:
“I love you. Always have, always will. Don’t forget that. A year.”
Pynn, Aubree. Breaking the Rules: A Los Oceania Love Story. APXCB, LLC. Kindle Edition.
SheReadsaLot to Audience:
Seven years later, Eli returns. Without having spoken to his best friend once in those seven years. He did know how to support everyone else but his best friend though.
SheReadsaLot to Eli:
SheReadsaLot to Audience: That wasn’t all however. Eli dropped the ball in more than one way.
SheReadsaLot and SheReadsaLot:
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: Ma’am you know we can talk a lot about this book, because we used our annotation tabs… A lot of them!
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SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: So what do you want to tell them about this book?
SheReadsaLot to Audience: Mrs. Pynn knows how to hold you captive, she will stress you out! Because Eli has his ways… And Olivia extends him a lot of grace…
SheReadsaLot to SheReadsaLot: A LOT OF GRACE!!
SheReadsaLot: Maybe even too much, because after 7 years??!
SheReadsaLot to Audience: But Mrs. Pynn will have you leaving her book on a high!
And that is how we’ve come to the end of this Week in Review! Off to see what next week will bring!
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