Sexual Healing

Rating:
Summary: Good, but.....
Review: This book started off very good..very funny in the 1st half...then the characters & story plot just got a little ridiculous & unbelievable & took a serious turn for terrible..I cant really go into it without giving the book away..but I stopped reading it after the 1st half because I just couldnt stand it anymore. The cover says its like a chocolate Sex and the City..NOOOO!! it does not deserve nearly that much credit - Not Recommended

Rating:
Summary: Wish I could give this -10 STARS
Review: This has to be one of the worst books ever written! This book was absolutely horrible. It was so bad I found myself midway skim-speed reading just so I could finish this. I have to admit the title, cover art, author, story line & rave reviews listed on the front and back covers drew me in. Boy, what a mistake. I have so many issues with this book that it will be hard to break them down. But I will try:

1st: Too wordy!! too many unnecessary details about things and people you could care less about! This book would have been BETTER WITH HALF THE WORDS.

2nd: Am I the only one that had issues with the names of these characters. I found the names annoying and SILLY!! "T.Terry Tiger" are you serious? "LaShaWanda" "Odell" "DeQuan, DeJuan & whatever the other one is" "Exultia" "Sequoia". There were so many others I made myself forget. The names of the organizations were laughable at best. Actually the characters themselves were laughable at all times!

3rd: The main characters seemed more like they had the perspective of a 50-something year woman than that of today's modern 40 year old.

4th: Please tell me WHY and WHAT was the relevance of Acey being visited by her dead husband!! This does not fit the storyline. Its misplaced and weird. Completely unnecessary.

5th: Sexually liberated? Forget it. These women WERE hardly sexually liberated, sexually experimental maybe. They had to incessantly maintain some type of sexual modesty or closed-minded view of others' sexuality at all times. I am sure if you have the displeasure of reading this book you will see the contradictions. Did they ever use condoms themselves?

6th: Please help me to understand why when they found out they were $40,000 dollars short to qualify for a loan, they simply did not adjust their loan request amount? Why is it when she found out her ex-husband STOLE THE MONEY FROM HERE ACCOUNT she didn't file criminal charges against him and or the bank for releasing this money without her permission. No that would make too much sense, instead she decided to forgive him AND hire him as a cook in her spa after he used all the money up paying for spa & sex services from "A Sisters' Spa" and for of all things, a sex change!!

7th: Who would ask their 70-year old mother to research information on brothels?

8th: Why spend the majority of the book trying to get the spa instead of 3/4 of the book on the spa's goings on which would be far more interesting to readers than ghosts, preachers and jimmy choo boots.

9th: Was that not the CORNIEST ENDING EVER??? What the hell? The sex worker gets the preachers wife pregnant after she comes to the spa "undercover" only to find out the preacher is his long lost FATHER. RIGHT. And then the duo go TO AFRICA and begin recruiting. WOW. OK. I was so exasperated by the end that I wanted to throw the book in the garbage.

10th: The sheer arrogance of the author to make you sift through her mental ramblings of her fairytale black/white male/female reality coupled with the blatant neglect and incompetency of the editor in not doing a better job curtailing and guiding this literary garbage to something ALMOST REALISTIC and REMOTELY ENJOYABLE is disgraceful. Her approach was obviously like a journalist/reporter. Jill get a new editor and stop having your friends write reviews on AMAZON for you!

If you insist on reading this book BORROW it, other wise you will regret spending ANY of your hard earned cash for it.



Rating:
Summary: Sexual Healing
Review: Wow! Jill Nelson leaps out of the non-fiction box and brings all of her writing power with her in the creation of her new novel "Sexual Healing." Her new book is inventive, outrageous, and challenges readers to get out of their boxes and think differently about the world, sex, color and how things are organized. This is a book filled with wonderful characters, great belly laughs throughout, and many new thoughts about things sexual. I am still laughing outloud about the scene in the bank when they go for the loan. Jill exposes race secrets, sexual secrets, and woman secrets with the same great style she used to expose journalism in "Volunteer Slavery." What a writer, what a book, what a great read. This is MUST reading for 2003 and beyond. -- Bill Perry