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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – V.I.P: Confessions of a Groupie by Azarel

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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review
“V.I.P”
by Azarel
3 of 5 Stars

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All that glitters isn’t gold in Azarel’s novel “V.I.P”. Once the smoke clears and mirrors are pulled away, Royce and India’s pasts could affect their futures.

Royce is a R&B singer who dreams of making it big in the music industry to take care of her young son and leave her millionaire, NFL boyfriend who could care less about marrying her. Royce has the skills to be a platinum-selling singer/songwriter/performer, but is that all it takes?

India wants what every groupie wants: all the trappings of the good life without working for it. If it wasn’t for her down-to-earth friend Rachel, India would be in over her head before she could put on her fake designer shades. Dreams of being a celebrity football player’s wife may be what she needs to wake up to the harsh reality of her desires.

Just when you relax enough to think India and Royce are casual friends, you learn that their histories are intertwined and go way back… Continue reading JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – V.I.P: Confessions of a Groupie by Azarel →

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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – Welfare Grind by Kendall Banks

JoeyPinkney.com Book Review
“Welfare Grind”
by Kendall Banks
4 of 5 Stars

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“Welfare Grind” is the first of the Welfare Grind series of novels by Kendall Banks.

Keema Newell is a Land Shark. There is no other way to put it. She is to society what sharks are to Shark Week. She was born to “eat food”, slang for getting money. Keema even named each one of her children after money: Treasure, Cash and Dinero. And she looks at them as her “investments”. What’s worse, she’s keeping her boyfriend Dupree’s autistic son, Shane. Dupree is a drug dealer that stashes drugs, money and guns in Keema’s apartment. Legality and morals are not a part of her DNA. Continue reading JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – Welfare Grind by Kendall Banks →

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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – Nights Over Egypt: An Eye of the Storm Short – Elissa Gabrielle

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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review
“Nights Over Egypt: An Eye of the Storm Short”
by Elissa Gabrielle
5 of 5 Stars

Elissa Gabrielle puts words in an order so skillfully that you can at times tell the very cadence of what’s being spoken by the characters in her stories. “Nights Over Egypt: An Eye of the Storm Short” is no exception. Nestled in a nook known as “Nights” in Newark, NJ, a pair of poets pour their passions. Intertwined by dueling desires, King and Egypt detail dirty thoughts through a poetic dialogue that defines divine attraction.

In “Nights Over Egypt”, veteran author/publisher Gabrielle builds a world around the gravity of a mutual desire that rests between two powerfully potent practitioners of verbal gymnastics. Visions are filtered through the minds, bodies and souls of two wordsmiths as they wage a peaceful war in the midst of unwitting watchers. Even when alone, each lover thinks of the other – smothered by thoughts of what could be, what should be and what will be. Continue reading JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – Nights Over Egypt: An Eye of the Storm Short – Elissa Gabrielle →