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Prime Choice: Perry Skky Jr. Series #1

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PRIME CHOICE by Stephanie Perry Moore is the first book in a series featuring Perry Skky, Jr., a high school senior and star wide receiver. He is blessed with academic and athletic abilities, however his hormones are raging and his girlfriend wants to remain a virgin until marriage. Thus, this is the crux of the story, Perry coming into his own amidst the controversy of his life and those of his family and friends.

For Perry there is pressure to perform athletically and to lead the typical jock life, which he resists for the most part, standing on his Christian principals, until he decides to break up with his girlfriend for a walk on the wild side. This decision brings about a host of problems for Perry. Consequently, his two friends find themselves in trouble due to unprotected sex and Perry carries the weight of their issues on his shoulders. Within his family, he literally catches his father in an uncompromising situation, which adds to his burdens, and finally, the ever-present recruiting machine is on his back. What is a young man to do with all of this pressure?

The author has managed to authenticate Perry and his friends based on their backgrounds and she demonstrates that while you may be a product of your environment, you can always change the course of your life and not use that as a crutch. PRIME CHOICE is full of situations and the resolutions teens may face, however it is coupled with wisdom that is a direct reflection of family upbringing. The positions the teens find themselves in, the lengths they go to rectify their problems and their cyclical behavior is very realistic and one which speaks to the heart.

Reviewed by Dawn R. Reeves
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

I admit I have not read this book, but my 15 year old son who HATES to read did so in ONE day. I had to beg him to read the first chapter. The next day I came home from work and he had finished it and preceeded to give me a chapter by chapter summary. I have never seen my son so excited about a book. He loved the characters and the story. He said he could relate to everything and the kids in the book were real people like the kind he goes to school with everyday. He is looking forward to the next one and so am I. I really appreciate this author blessing our lives with this book, because if my son couldn't put it down, it's got to be good!!!

This is a great book for teens and young adults. It's hip and with the programme and talks about stuff that teens and young adults talk about and deal with on a daily basis. Things like curfew, sex, virginity, going steady, dealing with parents - it's all here. There's no preaching down or preaching at - just real talk. I'm a mother and I enjoyed the book. It also gave me MORE insight into what kids deal with today. Sometimes as adults, we forget what growing up is like. Even if you are not a christian you will enjoy this book.

FINALLY!, here is a book that shows the practicality of faith for young people, specifically African American teenage males. As a mentor for an all African American high school athletic team and the older brother of a high school athlete, I found this book to be a great conversation starter for many of the issues faced by the aforementioned demographic and generally the teenage Christian population. Moore doesn't shy away from the issues of sex, drugs, the ensuing "teenage love affair" difficulties, complications of progressive friendship, and/or other issues normally quieted in Christian culture. Instead, she offers the simply, yet fervent prayers of Perry, the novels protagonist, and follows up with his clearly demonstrated actions of faith to see those prayers come to fruition.

As a recent graduate with an honors degree in English and World Literatures, I also find the novels easy to read and audience appropriate. My younger brother and I often finish the books included in this series within a days time. We enjoy every moment of it!

Perry Skky, Jr. is a very talented high school football player, and he's being recruited by the best colleges. He's an A student and a popular guy in school. It seems a lot of girls want him, but he's not like his player friends, Damarius & Cole. Perry's heart belongs to one girl, and that's Tori. He desires to share all of himself with her, but Tori's Christian beliefs keep him from getting what he wants. Being a Christian himself, Tori's decision is the right choice for both of them, but Perry's relationship with the Lord is a bit off track, so he doesn't always have God's will in mind. He does, however, get to where honoring God becomes his top priority... eventually, that is.
I don't know the first thing about football, so the many chapters about college recruiting and football games weren't interesting. But that's just me. However, Stephanie Perry Moore has enough knowledge about football to hold the attention of every reader who has an interest in this sport.
Perry's relationships with his family, his boys (their situations helped him to start appreciating being abstinent), and the opposite sex (quite a bit of drama there) - that is what kept me turning the pages. Perry rededicates his life to God during the story, getting his walk with the Lord back on track. He intends to put God first in all that he does, and by the end of the story he is beginning a relationship with a girl who feels as strongly about pleasing God as he does.
After reading this first book in the Perry Skky, Jr. Series, I did not hesitate to purchase Book 2 - Pressing Hard. I'm interested in finding out how well Perry resists temptation with his new girlfriend; someone he became attracted to when he claimed he was in love with Tori.
I recommend this novel to teens and adults who love to read YA fiction. And as for young people who are reluctant readers, this could be the one that ignites a passion for reading.

Being a Young African American Christian Male myself, this book indeed shows the stuggles that young men go through trying to live there lives on the straight and narrow with everything that swarms around the world. I have read the first two books in the series, and i plan on buying the next two. Great Book! Keep up the phenomenal work.

Perry Skky Jr. is in his last year in high school. He's the star receiver on his football team, the envy of all of his friends, the top college recruiters are scrambling to get him on their team and, most definitely, a virgin. He is working on his relationship with God, but the peer pressure and all that life throws at him is making him question his belief and his choices.

This is a Christian, young adult fiction novel and it pleases me to see a strong adolescent male character who learns from his mistakes and tries to choose the right path. The characters are well developed and believable and Ms. Moore's story is a pleasure to read. I believe that young adults as well as "older" adults will enjoy this coming of age novel.

My son is really enjoying this book. All of Stephanie Perry Moore's books are great. I have already ordered the next series. My daughter,neices and nephews are enjoying her books also. They have completed other series, so I am continusly ordering books. The author is outstanding!!!!

This book was one of the greatest books i have read from the male perspective. Never mind the male side, it was good period! Every book after this one just has to get even better!!!!

I really love Perry. He's a great character and a good role model for young men. I've always loved Stephanie Perry Moore's books but I hate how she always makes her characters either the star of their sports team, Miss Popularity, or like in the case of the Laurel Shadrach series a person who dates the popular star jock. Can't she write about any other types of characters? I also hate how it seems that although it has been two years, Payton's life is still exactly the same and the fact they killed off Dakari's brother.