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(More customer reviews)Everyone looks at the end of the year with great anticipation. Many resolutions are made about love and life. This is no different in the four-story anthology, Kiss the Year Goodbye.
Four authors pen four unique stories where the end of the year is fastly approaching and changes in their lives are inevitable. In Brenda Thomas' contribution, "Every New Year", a young doctor, newly engaged, is more dedicated to her work than her fiancé. In a random shootout, she loses her memory and opens her heart to another. In "Whatever it Takes", Tu-Shonda Whitaker plays out a May/December romance to the background of a Jill Scott song named "Whatever." Crystal Lacey Winslow shows another side of love with "Dangerously in Love" proving nothing is ever as it seems. And "My Boo" by Daaimah S. Poole, gives insight to the effects of long distance relationships.
Out of the four, this reader enjoyed "Whatever It Takes." This was an engaging story of a thirty-six year old woman who is forced to consider a twenty-three year old man as her possible Prince Charming. Adding to the issue of age, the young man is the son of one of her friends. This story was intriguing to me for a few reasons. Ms. Whitaker deals with the struggle of age differences realistically while not sacrificing the electricity that is evident between the two characters. She was also able to share the comedy that is surely going to come from a situation like this. My only issue is that there were some points in the story where their behavior made me wonder who was actually thirty-six and who was twenty-three.
With the remaining three, while I was entertained, they did not engage me like the aforementioned. In "Every New Year" I was not convinced why the character was dissatisfied with her fiancé or her fascination with the new man. In "Dangerously In Love", it was a story designed to have an "oh my" twist which was a bit predictable and contrived. And in "My Boo" there was quite a bit of drama and trifling behavior in a short story and I had trouble believing its resolution.
With all that said, I will say that the stories were readable and entertaining enough. It would be a good commuter read.
Kotanya
APOOO Bookclub
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