Loving Donovan [Audio Cassette]

Bernice L. Mcfadden (Author), Robin Miles (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• ISBN-10: 1402539711
• ISBN-13: 978-1402539718
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,967,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am mother, daughter, sister and friend. All I've ever wanted was to be happy. Writing makes me happy.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Heart Belongs To You, January 27, 2003

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

This review is from: Loving Donovan (Hardcover)

Loving Donovan is the story of survival of the fittest while falling in love along the way. Campbell is a smart girl who was raised in a home with a heartbroken mother and a father who wouldn't know the meaning of being faithful if it bit him in the face. In spite of her parents example, Campbell still believes in the power of love. She has her share of men friends but has yet to meet that special someone to knock her off her feet, that is until she meets Donovan.

Donovan is also from a broken home. His mother is too busy running the streets to be a mother to him and his father is busy working and checking up on his mother. His parents' relationship ends bitterly, leaving Donovan and his father to go to live with his grandmother. As a child, Donovan endures one of the worst forms of abuse and it affects the adult he becomes. Regardless of the obstacles that come his way, Donovan still one day dreams of marrying and possibly playing in the NBA. His relationships never last more than a few months because he is deeply affected by his past. He doesn't think he will ever be able to love a woman fully until he meets Campbell.

Although Donovan and Campbell grew up not too far from one another, a chance meeting brings them together as adults. Can two people in love look beyond their unhappy pasts and have a future filled with happiness? Or will the past continue to haunt them and block their blessings of love?

Bernice McFadden has done it again, Loving Donovan is yet another excellent novel. From the first page to the surprise ending, this is a book you CAN NOT put down.

Reviewed by Eraina B. Tinnin
The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars McFadden is still a favorite, April 1, 2003

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"theewrt1" (Twingsburg, ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Loving Donovan (Hardcover)

I have read all three of Mcfadden's prior novels. This is a very talented sister with three dimentional well told stories that I usually finish over the course of a weekend. Needless to say I was looking forward to "Donovan". Much to my surprise I found the novel mildly interesting with a rushed ending. I really wanted to feel for campbell at the end of her break down. Especially when the story begins by letting you know that this is about a love gone wrong and even in the present donovan is still thought of. I felt a little let down. Alot of time was spent on the character's upbringings. But their time spent together seems too much like two ships passing in the night. It wasnt the love supreme it lead up to be. Mcfadden has a real talent for creating strong female characters who's past are heart felt. I highly recommend her debut "Sugar"

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgetable Love...Unforgetable Story!!, February 24, 2003

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Priscilla C. Johnson "bookmaniac" (Baltimore, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loving Donovan (Hardcover)

If you have never read anything by Bernice L. McFadden, Shame on you!! You have to pick up a copy of Loving Donovan.

Have you ever wondered what ever happen to that first first love? No matter what time of day, week, year, or hour, just the thought of that person sends goose bumps up your spine. This is the type of love that is shared by Campbell and Donovan. Before the reader can actually find out about this incredable love, you have to know who they are and how they came to be.

McFadden introduces the reader to each character in chapters perfectly named "Her" and "Him". In each chapter, you discover a young Campbell and Donovan and their desparate desire for approval, acceptance and love. Each has been been damaged in some way. Yet, unknowingly, they are present when each has been violated. Campbell and Donovan struggle throughtout the book to find themself and each other. In the chapter named "Them" Campble and Donovan come together and share a love that is so true. But because of their past they can never come together.

McFadden will make you laugh, cry, get angry, and love. Her writing is poetic, simplistic and speaks to the reader through her acuate visual images. You will also remember the love that you let get by and wonder in the same manner as Campbell in the prologue ... Would I .. Could I .... leave for that same love all over again??

Peace and Blessings!!