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The second chapter wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. Seth, ahh I know the mans name, well Seth seems cool and likeable, but after getting a quarter ways through this novel I realized one thing, it's boring me into a coma. There is no drama, action, nothing. The book is uneventful, dull, and falls into the unoriginal pit of all the other 'bad' novels I've read. Too predictable.
I'm not knocking Jackie, she has potential, the sister has a way with words, but just not the right way, or shall I give a little literary humor and say "not the-write-way"
professionals. Humor, popular music, and the "nouveau buppy" values that sprinkle the lives of the characters add memorable turns throughout the novel.
LaMon's particular gift is dialogue, and the plot advances most effectively in her precisely drawn scenes. Because of her attention to detail, several of the secondary characters also enrich and season the novel without bogging it down. Seth, however, seems the more fully-realized character, perhaps because he is an extrovert. Some plot details get cloudy toward the middle, but LaMon uses structure to keep us engaged in the unfolding dramas of both Seth and Nia.
There are many novels on the market framed around a black heterosexual love match. And LaMon makes a memorable contribution. The book has its well-developed erogenous zones.
But ultimately, In the Arms... offers more. It is more a chronicle of emotional struggle toward wholeness than a predictable sex romp by idealized soap-opera types.
It takes us to authentic sites of pain,
looks beyond surfaces, and shows us --repeatedly--
that there are ways out of the suffering we bring on ourselves.
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me gives us love not simply as
destination, but as a journey, likely to bring our passionate fantasies to fruition, if we stay on the path.
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the Kennedy saga of sadness. I personally do not put much faith in the theory of Ms. Jones, however, some of the facts she has stated in the book seem very truthful. I look forward to reading more of her books.
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