Blackgentlemen.com [Mass Market Paperback]

Zane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 30, 2007

Blackgentlemen.com is the premier website showcasing African-American bachelors. Women throughout the country search the site in hopes of finding true love. Step inside this exciting collection of novellas about women who meet men on the site. The anthology features stories penned by some of today's hottest female novelists, including Zane. The Blackgentlemen.com site actually exists. Maybe you will find the man of your dreams on the Internet.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Zane is the New York Times bestselling author of, among others, Afterburn, The Heat Seekers, the Flava series, and Dear G-Spot. Her television series, Zane's Sex Chronicles, is featured on Cinemax, and her bestselling novel Addicted has been adapted for a major motion picture. She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her family. Visit her website at www.eroticanoir.com.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Strebor Books (October 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593091672
• ISBN-13: 978-1593091675
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #962,870 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Zane is the author of Addicted, The Sex Chronicles, Gettin' Buck Wild, The Heat Seekers, The Sisters of APF, Shame on It All, Nervous, Skyscraper, Afterburn, and Love Is Never Painless and is also the editor of Chocolate Flava and Caramel Flava. She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her family. Visit her website at www.eroticanoir.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A site for a sight!, July 30, 2002

By 

The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers (RAWSISTAZ.com and BlackBookReviews.net) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blackgentlemen.com (Paperback)

Blackgenteleman.com is a collection of provocative short stories, each told with candor and frankness. They will entice and entertain you as the female characters find fruition when they connect through cyberspace with some sexy Black men.

DUPLICITY by Zane
Identical twins Neena and Nia are looking for significant others, Neena finds Jacob on the BG.com site and they make plans to meet. But an unexpected business trip on Christmas Eve curtails her planned rendezvous with Jacob. Because she is running late, Neena asks Nia to email Jacob and explain her situation. Well Nia emails him alright, but she does not deliver Neena's message. What she delivers has you shaking your head. Nia is now wondering if she can keep Neena from finding out what she did.

LESSONS LEARNED by Shonda Cheeks
Julian and Clarissa have been together since high school and had planned to marry after college. Lurking in the background is Clark who always wanted what Julian had. A surprise visit to Julian's dorm breaks Clarissa's heart; and Clark seizes the moment. Six years later, marriage to Clark is unfulfilling, her friends suggests the BG.com site. Clarissa hesitates, because she is still a married woman. But... she goes anyway, and there in all of his 'fione' glory is her Julian. Now the questions are will she email Julian? Or does she want to work on her marriage?

YOUR MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT by J.D. Mason
Maureen 'MO' Beckman, widowed for three years, finally realizes that she did not die with her husband. As the director of a neighborhood community center, she submerges herself in her job. But Kevin, the new photography instructor, has her looking for the first time, in a long time, at a man. Skeptical about the dating game, she calls her brother; he suggests she go to the BG.com site. There she finds a personal file on of all people, Kevin. What ensues is a cat and mouse game as Maureen sends mysterious emails and Kevin tries to figure out who 'MO' is. This one is a sizzler.

THE ADVENTURES OF THE BOLD AND BOURGEOIS by Eileen M. Johnson
Akinleye is a twenty-five year old, educated, beautiful woman with an upper six figure salary. She paid her car off in two years and the balance on her condo has been cut in half. Akinleye is in total control at work, but when she takes off her power suit at home, she is alone. When friends suggest the BG.com site, she tells them searching for a man on the Internet is for desperate women. But that attitude is short lived once Akinleye accesses that very site. What she finds is hotter than any story she could read in her Cosmopolitan Magazine.

DELUSIONS by Zane
Tasha is tired of the current dating scenes; on the BG.com site she meets the man of her dreams. When Rinaldo calls to say he's coming for a visit, she knows her dreams have come true. Once he arrives, Tasha is wondering who possessed his body. This is not the man she has been emailing the last four months. Ignoring warnings from everybody, Tasha still wants to take this relationship from the basement to the attic. But a visit to the local post office has Tasha running scared.

I think the Blackgentleman.com site is live, but I know the book, Blackgentlemen.com is all the way live. A good spot for this book is as close to your bed as possible. Cyberspace doesn't get any better than this; you need to read this book.

Reviewed by aNN Brown
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not What I expected!!!, July 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Blackgentlemen.com (Paperback)

This book is not what I expected. Zane is one of my best authors especially with erotica, and I was looking forward to reading her story, but she unfortunately disappointed me. I like when the characters find love that is all good and fine but can the sex be a little more detailed??? I am here in Iceland and a tad bit frustrated and I was waiting on this book for 2 weeks and I finally get it and it is not what I wanted to read. The only author that comes close to what I was looking for is Shonda Cheekes and even she did not reveal as much as I had hoped. If you are looking for pure down and dirty erotica you are not going to get it in this book...

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Oh How Fun!, December 3, 2002

By 

K. Kimbrough "kkimbr7" (Bakersfield, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blackgentlemen.com (Paperback)

Oh How Fun!

Blackgentleman.com is a short anthology presented to us by Zane, the author of Addicted, The Heatseekers, and The Sex Chronicles I and II. She and three other authors, Shonda Cheekes, J.D. Mason, and Eileen M. Johnson, bring us four very different stories that are all linked by the internet site Blackgentlemen. com. (Which incidentally is a real site.)

Zane, known for her racy sexual antics in her stories, presents five stories (the first and the last story written by her) that show five different experiences of women who meet men on this website. The first story Duplicity shows us how much twins actually do share. Lesson Learned, penned by Ms Cheekes shows us how something built on lies will soon crumble. Your Message Sent, penned by J.D. Mason, shows us that even though the Internet is readily available, it is still a tool of mystery. The Adventures of the Bold and Bourgeois, penned by Ms. Johnson, shares with us how we can miss what is good for us in our quest for perfection. And Delusions show us that things are not always what they seem.

I read this and was pleasantly surprised. I did not have a great expectation one way or the other but I had fun reading it. The stories are fun and entertaining and in classic Zane style we do experience the pleasures of the flesh as well as a twist in her stories. Do not pick this up expecting a literary work that will be destined for greatness because you will be disappointed. If you are in for something light, entertaining, a little sexy, or quirky, some romance and even a bit of suspense you might want to check it out.