Hot Johnny (and the Women Who Loved Him)

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Summary: Too many characters...
Review: This is one of the worst stories, I have tried to read this year. I was unable to finish this book. It was too many characters and not a story line to follow. Everyone woman is telling her story and I just couldn't get into it.

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Summary: One Star for the cover and One for the story
Review: This read was extremely boring not even worth taking out of the library. I was fooled by the cover.

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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: This story told from the women's point of view, was touching, entertainin and sometimes sad. From birth it seems that Johnny was going to have it hard. His mother didn't want him, his wife couldn't handle being with him, his grandmother didn't care, and all the other women just wanted a piece of the pie. This was a very well written and entertaining book. It all came together in the end with the secrets, lies and deceptions that tell the tale of who Johnny is and how he became Hot Johnny

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Summary: Get Your Oven Mitts
Review: To say that this book is awesome is a gross understatement. I don't know if I'm saying this because I just came off so many literary disappointments or not, but this is literature at its finest. Ms. Jackson-Opoku is a literary seamstress as well as genuis. She has created vivid, well-defined characters. Her descriptive powers are incredible to say the least. She manages to enlighten and endear simultaneously. Wonderful writing as well as writer.

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Summary: Hot Johnny is too hot to handle
Review: Well, well, well. There were so many places in this book that I had to go back and reread because I couldn't believe what had just happened. Unique storyline. Engrossing characters. Excellent writing. A page turner for the mature reader. Your emotions will be pulled in several differnet directions while you try to decide if you love or hate Johnny. Take this one with you on vacation.

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Summary: Written By A True Writer
Review: What can I say? Hot Johnny was written by a TRUE writer at the top of her game. Not one of these fly-by-night authors who can't tell a metaphor from a meteorite. The story was so textured and and deliciously layered with the best in literary form and structure, I found myself gobbling up each chapter and racing on to the next. There is no comparison between Ms. Jackson-Opoku's writing and that which is currently flooding the African-American commercial market. Writers on this level include, Gloria Naylor, Bernice McFadden, and very few others. Most of the people out there penning novels (myself included) wish they COULD write with such style and finesse. Many readers and so-called reviewers give praise (and 5 stars) to a lot of the poorly written and trashy work of today, but as a developing writer I recognize pure talent when I see it, and Hot Johnny is written proof that anyone with enough money or the right connections can be an author, but it takes something very special, something Ms. Jackson-Opoku has in abundance, in order to call yourself a writer. Congrats, Ms. Jackson-Opoku, for a literary gem that is thoroughly enjoyable.