Got a Man

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Summary: A Good Read..........
Review: This book was alright.I thought Yo Yo Love was better.This book is about these 3 characters Shonda,Kim,and Malik.Now Kim and Malik have been together for quite sometime.She has a son by someone else and Malik takes care of him like he's his own child.Kim wants Malik to marry her and at first I can tell he doesn't want to.It seems like he is comfortable with the way things are going and feels he's being pressured.Kim tell him she is pregnant and the next thing you know they are out shopping for a ring.The part that I thought was crazy was that even though the ring cost too much Kim offered to help Malik pay for it.So the next thing you know Kim and Malik's relationship were going through changes.Shonda ends up meeting Malik on the job at a law firm where they work.Shonda and Malik flirt a little and she knew he was engaged but that didn't stop her or Malik.The next thing you know Malik was staying out late and starting arguments with Kim.They ended up breaking up and he stayed with Shonda.I felt bad for Kim.She was hurt but she remained strong.I gotta give it to Kim because she was trying to get herself together.Shonda was just straight up trifling and selfish.Everytime you read her story she was always always always shipping her daughter Bree off with Brian just to go out or be under Malik.At first Shonda didn't know if Bree was Brian's and it turned out he was the father.When they went to court I wish that it could have turned out that Brian had custody of her and Shonda was getting her a few days a week.I think Shonda's character was irresponsible.It's like her world centered around Malik.All Kim really wanted was to be married and have a family.Malik played both of these women.I kinda figured that he was gonna go crawling back to Kim but that was when Shonda put him out.He started telling Kim he missed his family and wanted to be with them and they planned to get married on Valentine's Day.Everything was set up perfect as Kim would say.I think the ending could have been better though.Im glad Kim's sister Karen knocked Shonda upside the head and pushed her into a potato chip rack at the store.Kim derserved better and even though it hurt Kim she was better off without Malik.I hope there is a sequel to this book and if there were I hope Malik would really want Kim back and she tells him no and her and her boyfriend raise her kids together.Malik would then see how Kim felt.This book was good but I like Yo Yo Love better.Got A Man deals with everyday situations...

Rating:
Summary: Loved ever bit of it!
Review: When a book is good it may take me like 4 days to read, but I must say that this book keep me reading and reading. I was reading the book at work. It took me a
little over a day to read. I was a little disappointed at the way book ended. I was hoping for a story-book ending like Kim and Malik getting married and that's that!!
I was also mad at Shonda for stopping the wedding. That's how it goes in real life there may not be a perfect story book ending all the time. It was kool to have an
Author around my age and is writing about things that I know or have heard about around my way. When I had like 40 pages left in the book, I went back to the
bookstore and brought her 1st book, Yo Yo Love. I have just finished that book tonight. I could resist not giving Daaimah her props. Both books were great. I
brought Got a Man on Tuesday and Yo Yo Love on Wednesday, here it is Thursday night and I have finished both of her books. Good Luck to you Daaimah.

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Summary: What A Disappointment
Review: `YO YO LOVE' by Daaimah S. Poole was a great read. It was the perfect example of African American chick-lit. Filled with comedy, romance, and great friends, it was a novel I truly enjoyed. So when I discovered that Ms. Poole released a sophomore project, I just knew I was going to enjoy it as much as I did her first. That's what I get for jumping the gun. `GOT A MAN' was not only lukewarm, but the editing was bad, and it was extremely repetitious throughout. Whatever happened to keeping the reader on their toes?

Meet Shonda & Kim. Two women in love with the same man. Kim has been in a steady relationship with her fiancé Malik for about 4 years, but that relationship is tested when Shonda temps as a receptionist at Malik's law firm. The two begin to hit it off, and Malik strays away from Kim, pursuing a relationship with Shonda, even though he and Kim have a baby on the way. From then it becomes a back and forth thing. Malik strings the two women along, but the two women insist on berating each other instead of putting the cheating loser in his place.

There was a whole lot of "Pick me", "you don't know what a mistake you are making", "that is my man", and yadda yadda yadda. Same story different title.

It was very predicatable, and poorly written. A big disappointment in my opinion.