No Girl Needs a Husband Seven Days a Week [Paperback]

Nina Foxx (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 20, 2007

A husband can be good for a number of things:

• Companionship (when he's home)
• Household repairs (if he's handy)
• Good loving (if you're lucky), but . . . no girl needs a husband seven days a week!

Marie needs her "stay-at-home husband" to clean the house and babysit the kids, so she can take care of business coast-to-coast . . . and enjoy some harmless flirting on the side.

Mai's perfectly content to be the perfect wife to a successful corporate superstar—throwing lavish parties and organizing gala charity fundraisers. But it's funny how quickly everything can change with just a single phone call . . . from prison!

And high-powered ad exec Kennedy believes the best husband is no husband at all. Hot encounters with a succession of studs keep her going strong as she climbs to the top of her profession.

A spouse is fine as long as he doesn't screw up the rest of your life. Now three lovely ladies who think they have this "husband" thing all worked out are about to learn that, when it comes to love and marriage, "perfection" can always be improved upon. And it's going to be one wild ride!

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About the Author

Nina Foxx, originally from New York, is the bestselling author of five novels--and two industrial design patents. She has had a short story featured in Wanderlust: Erotic Travel Tales, and her fourth novel, Marrying Up, was successfully adapted into a musical stage play. She worked as an industrial psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction, and is currently completing a third graduate degree--this time an MFA in creative writing—and working on an experimental film project based on one of her books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; 1ST edition (November 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061335274
• ISBN-13: 978-0061335273
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,371,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nina Foxx is the author of 7 novels (published by HarperCOllins, Romantic Comedy), been included in two anthologies, and has wrtten, produced and directed several stage plays that have toured the country. She has also written the accompanying music (available on itunes) and one of her plays is available on DVD, and is distributed by Urban HOme Entertainment. She also has produced three feature length films that will be in theaters in 2012 (513, Magic Valley & A** Backwards). She also wrote, produced and directed two shorts, Closer to CRazy and She's Got Is'Shoes that have won numerous awards, and is in pre-production on a fourth feature film based on one of her earlier books, and a is a producer on two TV Shows for the National Geographic Channel.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing as well as a Ph.D. in I/o Psychology. Nina has authored several industrial design patents, and has been called a relentless marketer of her work. She has been featured in several magazines, including PW, Black Issues Book Review, QBR, Brilliant, Today's Black Woman and Black Enterprise.


Cynnamon Foster is the alter-ego of author Nina Foxx. She has been begging to be let out for quite awhile. She tied Nina up and put her in a closet and has been writing ever since.

Cynnamon Lives in Southern California with her main personality.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who Are These People?, January 14, 2008

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Angelia Menchan "acvermen.blogspot.com" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Girl Needs a Husband Seven Days a Week (Paperback)

The title, No Girl Needs a Husband Seven Days a Week by Nina Foxx was enough to draw this reader in. However, the interesting and connected storylines kept me reading. Maria, Mai and Kennedy are best friends and have been for years. They think they share everything but they are all going to find out they do not know as much about the others lives as they may think.

Maria is in pharmaceutical sales: she is married to her stay-at home husband, Louis, and together they have two children. While away from home, she feels a little `flirting' is harmless. Her girlfriends disagree with her actions, but she turns a deaf ear to them. The question is how would she feel if good, old, reliable Louis did a little flirting of his own?
Mai is married to Calvin, who provides well for his wife and three children, while Mai runs things at home like superwoman. No one, not even her friends know what is really going and what it takes for Mai to get through the day, keeping up a perfect family façade. What she and Calvin have together is not always what it seems. Kennedy was once hurt by man she loved and is convinced men are only good for one thing. Besides, she is focused on her successful marketing career and the care of her ailing father. Is it possible that she can be open to love when she meets Troy , or will he turn out to be even worse than the others?

Nina Foxx has written a well-paced novel about friendship, relationships and family connections. She allows the reader to peek into her characters lives, seeing that rarely are things exactly what they seem. I recommend this novel to readers who enjoy contemporary novels about relationship drama.

Angelia Menchan
APOOO BookClub

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Can you help me understand why you do it?", November 19, 2007

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Sebastian Fernandez (Tampa, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Girl Needs a Husband Seven Days a Week (Paperback)

This novel explores the everyday lives of three strong female characters, Kennedy, Maria and Mai. Kennedy is an attractive and successful executive that is disillusioned with love and does not want to start any new relationships. But Troy is looking for much more than a one-night-stand and will seriously threaten the carefully laid out plans. Marie is a stay-at-home mom who does not use her professional qualifications and is happy with the life she is living. This bliss is shattered when she gets a call from her husband from halfway across the country asking her to bail him out of jail. Mai has a successful career while her husband stays home with the kids, and she likes to meet new men when she travels for her business.

The book starts out strong, with a nice pace, but then, the author tries to twist the plot way too much and ends up damaging the story. If you like those soap operas in which there are secrets galore and don't care too much about how believable the story is, you will probably have a great time with this novel. If this kind of situation bothers you, then you will probably find it entertaining, but lacking, as I did.

The book also includes Extras, in which we get two pieces of completely different quality. In the first one, the author shares a story about the possibility of being in a reality show and uses this fact to disguisedly tell us that she is much better than every other wife and mother out there. As you can imagine, this is the piece of dreadful quality. The other piece has to do with a funny story about an emergency situation. Although some of it is a little over the top, I had a good time with this one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Foxx Does it Again, August 29, 2008

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P. W. WILLIAMS (League City, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Girl Needs a Husband Seven Days a Week (Paperback)

We selected this book for our annual Girl's Retreat selection. Each lady read the book prior to our retreat in San Antonio. Everyone loved it! It is a great selection for a "girls night out" or "ladies only" themed event. Our theme this year was "No Men, Amen", and we really enjoyed the lively discussion generated by this book.