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 Love Full Circle Aug 09, 2009
"He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" is author, Tracy L. Darity's first novel about love - relationships between couples, family and friends. The novel follows protagonist, Khadejah Johnson - as a teenager experiencing love (or lust) for the first time through her adult years as she still attempts to find love. Khadejah goes through many trials and tribulations as she finds her own way through life and experiences many ups and downs in relationships around her - her relationship with her best friend, Vanisa, her parents, her siblings - older sister, Anisa, and older brother, Joshua, an established businessman, who is extremely protective of his little sister and will come to her rescue in more ways than one.
Khadejah has her share of interesting men who come and go in her life from her first love, high school basketball star, Terrance, who ultimately breaks her heart through infidelity; the infamous Justice, an older man with his own set of problems - many of them Khadejah will have to find out the hard way. Khadejah's relationship with Justice produces two beautiful daughters - one with autism. Fast-forward a few years, Khadejah is now in corporate America with another set of issues to address. In walks charismatic, Aaron, Khadejah's coworker, who has his own share of drama, both on and off the job. Throughout her relationships, her first love, Terrance, seems to be a constant mainstay in Khadejah's life as he attempts to reclaim love once lost.
Though lengthy, "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" is an interesting read and many readers will reminisce about their own present and past relationships - love lost and gained and more importantly - lessons learned from each of these relationships regardless of outcome.
Review: 4.5 Beignets
Reviewed by Sonya
Books and Beignets (BAB) Book Club
(RAW Rating: 3.5) - Is It Really Love? Aug 01, 2009
Khadejah Johnson is your typical high school teen just three months shy of graduating when HE LOVES ME, HE LOVE ME NOT opens. Terrance, the guy she is dating, is on the basketball team and has a pesky ex-girlfriend with whom he maintains an on-again, off-again relationship. When the ex-girlfriend becomes pregnant, Khadejah is deeply hurt and moves on to a relationship with a much older man. This is where her tales of heartache and joy begin as she navigates through relationships looking for Mr. Right.
From the emotionally abusive relationship with the older man, Khadejah has two daughters one of which is autistic. With the demise of that relationship, her challenge is now finding men who are willing to date a woman with children, especially a child with special needs. She has several love interests that consists of an ambitious attorney, a thug, a corporate lawyer and always hiding in the shadows is her high school sweetheart, Terrance who is now a successful NBA player. Will she find her prince among this crew, or will she continue to kiss the wrong toads?
HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT is the impressive debut from Tracy L. Darity. Khadejah's character is a reflection of many women seeking loving relationships. The choices she made were sometimes advantageous and at others, just plain stupid. She is your best friend, sister, mother or any woman you know who won't stop until they get it right. At 444 pages, it is a very lengthy book, which grasped my attention and held it to the end with no lull in the plot. This one is sure to appeal to lovers of romance.
Reviewed by Paula Henderson
of The RAWSISTAZ(tm) Reviewers
Love like this... Jul 20, 2009
This novel follows the life of a girl named Kadejah from when she was in high school until the age of 32. She went through her share of obstacles involving love and finding it in the wrong places. After her trials and tribulations she finally finds the right person to share her life with.
The book was very interesting! You just don't know what's next. The information and wording flowed well together. All of the chapters were interesting and kept you wanting to know more.
The only concerns I had were that there were some words that weren't proofread. One part of the book was supposed to be talking about Terrance but the name that showed was Jonathan. Also when Christian went to trial and the jury read the verdict there was nothing else said about what Christian faced.
Other than that the book was a great read and I really enjoyed it. I have already recommended it to my friends and family!
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 Searching For Love...In All The Wrong Places Jun 26, 2009
In HE LOVES ME HE LOVES ME NOT! by Tracy Darity, the story opens with Khadejah Johnson having three months to go before she graduates from high school. Here she begins dating Terrance Newsome, the school basketball star, who is destined to go to the pros. Things seem to be going well between the two...that is until his ex-girlfriend becomes pregnant.
Khadejah is hurt from the betrayal, so runs into the arms of a sexy chocolate complexioned man. Thus, enter Justice whom is ten years older than Khadejah and has the reputation for having a fetish for teen girls. Justice runs the local night club Cassie's. Although Khadejah fails to heed to the countless warnings from family and friends to stay away from Justice, Khadejah embarks on a six year relationship with him. During this relationship she will embark on an emotional roller coaster ride, with his indiscretions and his shady ways. Eventually she gets the courage to walk away from the relationship.
Later Khadejah meets Adrian Baxter, whom is trying to climb his way up the corporate ladder, no matter what he has to do. From there we meet Mylan Gaines, who has a thug swagger to him. Different than any man she has ever dated. Their relationship is mainly on the physical side, that is until she begins to catch feelings for him. Mylan is just not ready to settle down...or at least that's what he leads her to believe. Then somewhere in the mix, Terrence Newsome re-enters Khadejah's life. He will do anything to reclaim the love he once shared with her.
HE LOVES ME HE LOVES ME NOW is an awesome debut novel by Tracy Darity. This book reads like a true to life story. I guarantee you will recognize someone in one of these characters whether it be a family member or friend. In reading this there were so many twists to it, I just had to sit back and enjoy the journey that Ms. Darity decided to take me on. I laughed at some parts and got angry with Khadejah's character at others.
Although the size of this book may look intimidating and you may be looking at it like, it is going to take me forever to read this, get that thought out of your head right now. The story flows with so much precision and it is so realistic that you will be flying through this novel. I appreciate that fact that the author did not try to drag this out to be a sequel.
This was an excellent novel. A recommended read! This is one of those novels that you will always remember.
Reviewed by Leona
UrbanFireBooks
Searching for love in all the wrong places... Jun 22, 2009
He Loves Me He Loves Me Not takes us into the life of Khadeja Johnson.From a young teenager having fun and about to graduate high school to growing up becoming a young woman going through alot of obstacles in her young life.
Khadeja comes from a loving family.Seeing how happy her parents were,she thought it would be the same for her.Her first real boyfriend,Terrence gets his ex-girlfriend pregnant.Khadeja seeks comfort into the arms of Justice, a man ten years older than she is with a bad boy persona.Soon they are living together and Khadeja finds out about the other women.She wants out but finds it's easier said than done.
Throughout the book Khadeja goes from one relationship to the next and so forth.Alot of men turn out to not be who she thought they were and it leaves Khadeja on an emotional roller coaster and ready to not look for a man.Will Khadeja find that special someone or will she let that special someone find her?
This book was really long but I enjoyed it.It was fast paced,not predictable to me at all and well written for a debut novel.I think this is one of those books where women can relate to Khadeja.We have all been in Khadeja's shoes at one point or another in our lives.
Reviewed by nicole098
Street Lit Clique
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