Live and Learn [Mass Market Paperback]

Niobia Bryant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 27, 2007

Set in her hometown of Newark, NJ, this popular bestselling author brings you a hip, sexy, and drama-filled story of four friends with choices to be made, sins to be forgiven, and lessons to learn.

BOOK DESCRIPTION
It's 24/7 money to burn, it's fancy houses, designer clothes, and luxury cars. It's leaving no-pay jobs and crumbling projects to have everything mad cash flow. And best friends, Alize, Dom, Moet, and Cristal will do anything to get the glamorous life--and put the past in the rear-view mirrors of their brand new whips. A savvy and smart business major, Alize had her childhood shattered by the divorce of her parents and is determined to never fall in love and risk being hurt. Dom learned early to use her sizzling-hot body to make much bank--and find an eascape from her too dark looks and drug-addicted mother. Disillusioned by the faith and strict parents she grew up with, Moet figures hooking up with powerful men is now the real way to heaven. And streetwise Cristal has a master plan to get the secutiry she never to knew as foster child.

To make these dreams come true, these sistahs will go after the East Coast's biggest movers-and-shakers--superstar rappers, mega-successful moguls, and powerful thugs-for-life. But between the wild times and wilder men, one of them is going to gamble one time too many, one will play a player too far, one will take a dangerous chance, and one will face a hard real-deal choice. To survive, they'll have to depend on each other and remember who they truly are to learn that the good life doesn't cost a thing...

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Niobia Simone Bryant's a nationally best-selling and award winning author of nine works of fiction. She writes full time and splits her time between New Jersey and South Carolina.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Dafina (February 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075821720X
• ISBN-13: 978-0758217202
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,842,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"I am a writer, born and bred. I can't even fathom what else I would do besides creating stories and telling tales. When it comes to my writing I dabble in many genres, my ideas are umlimited, and the ink in my pen is infinite." --Niobia Bryant aka Meesha Mink aka Simone Bryant

With more than 20 books released in four different genres since 2000, Niobia is celebrating 10 years of bestselling fiction. For more on this writer who "can't stop, won't stop" please visit: www.NIOBIABRYANT.COM.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn From Your Mistakes, April 8, 2007

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Phyllis Ann "Book Lover" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live and Learn (Mass Market Paperback)

Niobia Bryant's newest offering, Live And Learn introduces readers to Cristal, Alize, Moet, and Dom. These four individuals have been friends for several years. Each of them has their share of drama and is searching for the way to get to the glamorous life. They all have different taste in men, perfume and lifestyles.

Cristal was orphaned as a child and is looking for someone to take care of her. She has her eyes on one man and just may find another. Will she choose true love or the lavish lifestyle she craves?

Alize is in her last year of college and is a dancer. She is in a relationship with Rah, a thug, who takes care of all the material things she needs. She is looking for someone she can count on to take care of her every want and need. Will she find the love she is looking for?

Moet is caught between two lives, church life with her parents and the life she portrays with her friends. She so desperately needs the attention of her father, but tries to get the attention elsewhere. Will she get her father's attention?

Dom is a stripper and lives with her mother and daughter. Her mother, Diana, is just like one of her friends. She smokes and drinks with her mother. Will Dom's fast life spiral out of control?

Live and Learn is a very entertaining novel. This book is filled with drama and held my attention to the very end. This read was well-written and very descriptive. The author was able to convey the importance of learning from your mistakes and standing by your friends through good and bad times. I especially liked the parts of the book that was called "Girl Talk". It was the conversations the ladies had together about different things going on in their lives. I enjoyed this book and recommend it to others. I can not wait for the sequel in 2008. Although this is my first time reading Ms. Bryant's work, it will definitely not be my last.

Reviewed by Phyllis Ann
APOOO BookClub

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1st Mainstream - But She's Done it Again!!!, March 9, 2007

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Mirage08 (VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live and Learn (Mass Market Paperback)

Niobia introduces us to 4 four friends and their lives are anything but boring. They all wanted bigger and better things out of their lives but along the way they learn a thing or two about what it is they truly want. This book had my cracking, made me mad, made me cry and made me feel for all four ladies. A time or two I was like oh my damn. The book is HOT! If you had/have close girlfriends this will make you think of you and your girls and think about your relationship with them. Ok I'll stop now...LOL! Loved, loved this book! Can't wait to read the sequel in '08. Definite recommendation along with Niobia's other books.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Live and Learn by Niobia Bryant: An PeoplewholoveGoodBooks Review, March 22, 2007

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Shay C (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live and Learn (Mass Market Paperback)

Monica, Latoya, Keesha, and Danielle are lifelong friends who are more like sisters. Their bond is so tight that nothing or no one can come between them or so they think......

Monica aka Alize refuses to fall in love, after growing up a child of divorce and watching her mother refuse to let go of her father, she has no problem using men to get what she wants. Although, she is determined to finish school and lands an internship at a prestigious firm, her attraction to thugs may shatter more than just her dreams.....

LaToya aka Moet is living a double life, around her strict christian parents, she's a meek college student but around her girls, she's Moet, life of the party but she's hiding a huge secret from her parents and her girls and when she winds up pregnant and alone, her girls come to the rescue.....

Keesha aka Dom uses she got to get what she wants and as a stripper, she's used to having money thrown at her but when tragedy strikes, her life begins to quickly sprial out of control and soon she hits rock bottam, will she able to find her way back before it's too late?

Danielle aka Cristal grew up an orphan and is determined to never go without again. Working at Platinum Records gives her access to plenty of "ballers" but she has a plan to land the big one, the CEO of Platinum Records but what happens when love appears in an unexpected source? Will she choose love or money?

Live and Learn by Niobia Bryant is a wonderful story about the bonds of friendship. Full of drama, betrayal, unforgettable characters and sizzling sex scenes, it is sure to keep the reader's attention from beginning to end. Can't wait until the sequel comes out! Reviewed by Shay C of PeoplewholoveGoodBooks.