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4.0 out of 5 stars
It's Not Where You're From But Where You're Headed,
By Rhymes, Views & News Reviews "Author, Arts P... (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Every Man for Herself (Paperback)
In Maryann Reid's Every Man for Herself, Nina Bettus Raines is a 25-year old woman who desperately needs to make some changes in her life. Raised in Allswell, Texas by a mother who cared more for her young husband, than her daughter, Nina was raped by her stepfather repeatedly at a young age and later married a selfish and controlling husband. Nina's husband Trent was a sneaky man who posed as a minister, while he secretly stashed away thousands of dollars without Nina knowing and kept a wealthy mistress on the side. Tired of being used and abused, Nina confided in her best friend Dee that it was time for her to leave her husband and move to a drastically different location. Leaving a painful childhood and marriage behind, Nina set her sights on the Big Apple as her new stomping ground. Armed with a new sense of self, and a determination to succeed on her own terms, Nina rents a room from an elderly friend of Dee's, and finds a job as a massage therapist at the newly opened Serenity Spa.
Once a shy, country girl, Nina begins to open herself up to meeting new people and doing new things, including having a passionate, short-lived affair with Ahmasi, a Brooklyn poet with a criminal past, and meeting the handsome, charming attorney Lamont, who later proposes to Nina. In between negotiating her divorce from Trent, distancing herself from Ahmasi because he is a crazy, unemployed drug dealer who knew Trent, and trying to work out her new relationship with Lamont Franklin who wants her to be his only woman, Nina comes out shaken but on top as she finally puts her past behind her. The novel's main setting is true to its' description of the downtown Brooklyn area frequented by poets and other artists, which I enjoyed reading about. However, I was a little surprised that at twenty-five years old, Nina, who was not well traveled or educated, was able to: heal from being raped as a child, deal with her mother's verbal and emotional abuse, divorce a husband, move to the toughest city in the world (New York City), meet not one, but two men who want her, and become engaged to a successful attorney (handsome, smart, educated, owns a home, buys gifts, financially stable), all in what seemed like ONE YEAR! Overall, I enjoyed Maryann Reid's style of writing, she mixed so many personas together in this book that you are able to identify with at least a few of them. Every Man for Herself is perhaps a fairy tale which reveals that a young woman who is fearless can attract anyone and everything she wants, no matter where she comes from. DuEwa M. Frazier Rhymes, Views & News Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
This book was everywhere...,
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This review is from: Every Man for Herself (Paperback)
I purchased this book because I needed something to read for my recent flight, I stopped at Barnes and Noble and it was on the Bargain books on the front table. I read the back, it sounded like a good book and purchased it. I also want to disclose that I have never read a book by this author before.
Within the first two chapters of this book I was bored and at one point almost decided to put it down permanently. But being the avid reader that I am I wanted to give a few more chapters before I threw in the towel. I wanted to see what was going to happen with the main character, Nina. I felt this story was all over the place...you begin thinking the writer is going to explore Trent (Nina's husband)-the fake pastor. But you only hear about his hustler ways in the first few chapters. Then you are introduced to Nina's mother and learn that her mother is still married to the man who repeatedly raped her daughter---you learn about the hatred mother and daughter have for each other. Nina decides to escape it all by escaping to New York. Out of all of the people in New York she hooks up with a man (Ahmasi) who has ties to her soon to be ex-husband. Then she begins to date a man that she met at work (even though it was against company policy). You later learn that this perfect man (Lamont) actually knew her when she was young and claims to have been in love with her then (but that is never addressed or revealed to the main character in the book). You also learn that his mother was her father's mistress who might have killed him and another slew of drama comes with that. I mean I don't know where to start or end---- this book was everywhere and some things didn't add up or make sense to me.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Every man for Herself,
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This review is from: Every Man for Herself (Paperback)
It was a bit raw for me taste, but I will say that it is very entertaining. The characters leap off of the pages at you most of the visuals are raw much like the descriptions given.
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