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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review: XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss by Chris Mainor

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XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss
by Chris Mainor
3 of 5 Stars

Visualize the vignettes from a man with a mind for the sensual. Chris Mainor’s XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss is a book full of scenarios where sex and seduction are the two main ingredients. If this book was a movie, the first three letters of the book’s title lets you know which rating it would be given by the Motion Picture Association of America.

XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss’ cover sets the tone appropriately – a naked couple locked in a passionate embrace. That lets you know what you are in for before embarking on the book’s journey. And just to keep that visual motif rolling, more sensual pictures that rev the imagination are interspersed between the chapters.

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Book Review: The Pride by Faydra D. Fields

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The Pride
by Faydra D. Fields
5 of 5 Stars

 The Pride, Faydra D. Fields’ debut novel, is unconventional in concept, yet impeccable in its approach to an interesting conundrum: a single Black man with ten children by four different women. Sounds like it’s going to be high in low-brow drama, right? Wrong!

Taking a scenario that could quite well be a train wreck befitting a full episode of the Jerry Springer Show, Fields takes The Pride in a decidedly literary direction. Instead of making a mockery of the situation, as is popular in today’s society, the author orchestrates a blended family which slowly becomes singular in purpose and remains varied in personalities and perspectives – like a real family.

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Book Review: Sin’s Iniquity by Sylvia Hubbard

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Sin’s Iniquity
by Sylvia Hubbard
4 of 5 Stars

Sin’s Iniquity, by Sylvia Hubbard, is a very intricate tale of love, a blurry past and a shaky future. The main character, Sinclaire McGentry, is at the center of a whirlwind that whisks her out of her comfort zone that was not so comforting to begin with. Not satisfied with her plus-sized figure, she is very subconscious of her appearance. She easily hides behind her pursuit of a law degree and maintaining a house out of which she rents rooms.

Sinclaire McGentry’s self-hatred stemmed from her mother’s loose and frivolous lifestyle and total disregard of any stage of Sinclaire’s life or Continue reading Book Review: Sin’s Iniquity by Sylvia Hubbard →