Okay, I can hold my piece no longer.
An opinion is just that, an opinion, and I don't in any way, shape, form or fashion want to belittle anybody's opinion. I just want to speak.
I read this book, recently, and I was outdone.
First, Reesy slept with Donovan, when she knew he was a dog and said so herself.
Then, she slept with Helmut, because she got TOO drunk, and thought she was in the bed with her man.
Plus, she was sleeping with Dandre, when she was plotting all along, how she could get back at him for causing her to lose her job, because he revealed that she was an ex EXOTIC DANCER.
How do you get back at somebody by giving them your body? Maybe I'm too old to reading a book about a character who was 32 and THIS messed up. I don't understand behavior like this, granted she is a fictional character and not a real person, it's still troubling. Is this what 21 year old girls are reading? I hope not. This behavior is not healthy!
While, the author did wait until the late middle of the book to eastablish Reesy as a member of AKA, she started establishing her as somebody with a questionable reputation (read: slut)right from the jump.
Reesy was not somebody who had high moral fiber. There's no way around it. She couldn't keep her panties on from one page to the next! As Mochaberry said, she thought she was a hoe, herself.
I found the book offensive to black women, period. It epitomized the sereotype of the black woman/ hoe, who can't get enough sex. Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm taking a fictional book too seriously. But as a female who is currently working on completing her third novel (the first 2 are too close to my heart to let others read, let alone try to get published), I don't understand the need to make a character a member of a real sorority. There are enough letters in the greek alphabet to come up with a fake name. Spike Lee did just fine in SCHOOL DAZE.
To make a character, who in my opinion, loved sex more than self-esteem a member of a real sorority is over the top.
BUT HEY, THIS IS JUST MY OPINION.
Miss. Mocha
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