Customer Reviews

Southern Fried Standards (Indigo Love Spectrum)

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2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(17)

 

 

What can I say, this book is so boring, I had to stop reading it, which is a first for me, even the really bad books with all the awful editing, I managed to read. I really love interracial books, but I am afraid this book bites the dust, I really can't finish it. I am on page 200+ and nothing remotely romantic has happened yet. If you want a really good sleeping aid get this book!

This book was a total letdown. I had looked forward to reading this book base on the description but was really disappointed in the story and character development. I agree with the other readers and really wish that I had read their reviews prior to buying this book. There was minimal interaction between the main characters and so many secondary characters, that I just lost count and interest. The romance was non-existent. Don't waste your money.

Without repeating what the other reviewers have said, I'll just say that this book was very poorly written. So far, i've reached page 293. The major disappointment to me is that even with all of the character development that was done, character roles were still not very clear.

I was left with several questions about the main character's job, in fact. The author wrote at the beginning that she ran a community health center. However for the majority of this book, everything after the second chapter, she's managing/representing/interacting with musicians. Never again do they mention the fact that she works helping women with AIDS. Even the staff at the center is involved with the music industry. I think the author could not decide which occupation she really wanted to write about.

The main character's personality is amazingly weak. She is described as "having it all together" at one point but then identifies as a clutz, a slob, and frumpy in other areas of this 350+ page narrative. Beyond that she has no backbone (she can't stand up to anyone) and has panic attacks when faced with difficult situations. How exactly did she become the main character in a romance novel? The Hero, to me, is not developed at all. Really the only thing you know about him is that he is a day laborer by day and a mucisian by night who never went to college and is estranged from his family.

And no, there is little to no romance in this book. Take the suggestion of others. Don't waste your time.

I LOVE I/R ROMANCES BUT I WAS TOTALLY CONFUSED BY THIS BOOK. THE TWO MAIN CHARACTERS DID NOT INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER UNTIL TOWARD THE END OF THE BOOK. IT FELT LIKE THE AUTHOR WAS FORCING THE TWO TOGETHER.THEY HAD NO SPARK OR CHEMISTRY TOGETHER, I WISH I HAD WAITED FOR THE REVIEWS FOR THIS BOOK. IT WAS TERRIBLE I FEEL LIKE I WAS RIPPED OFF FOR BUYING THIS BOOK.IT WAS ONLY 6.99 BUT I FEEL I SHOULD HAVE BEEN PAID TO READ THIS JUNK. GET IT FROM THE LIBRARY OR BETTER YET DON'T GET IT AT ALL. YOU SEE ONE STAR BUT I OFFICIALLY GIVE IT NO STARS!!!!!!

This could have been a great romance, but it fell very short. It was only the last third of the book the male and female reveal some emotions. There was very little romance. Too much time was taken developing the characters. At a point I found myself turning pages just to get out of the narratives and into some conversation. It was a good start, but more could have been done.

This book was a disappointment. There was hardly any romance at all in the book. By the time you got to the romance, the book was over. The book was mostly about the main characters drama in her life. Don't waste your money.

I liked this book. I felt that the story of a realistic nature because a lot of us have people in our lives that we need to out grow.

The cover of this story is so great. I was so excited when I got this book but after reading the first few pages I was very disappointed that the main female character was a doormat. She was supposed to be an attorney but she had no backbone. She was afraid of everyone around her especially her mother. A lot of the story didn;t make any sense. I was trying to understand what type of business that she was running that was supposed to be a nonprofit to help people but she was also promoting musicians...the story just didn't make a lot of sense.

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I really don't want to rip this story apart, but I do have to be honest and say it wasn't a romance. I think that is why it was such a disappointment. It should have been classed as just a fiction novel and maybe it would have come across as a better story. There truly was to much focus on the secondary characters and not enough development between Athena and Mike. The conversations were generic, there was no build up, no chemistry and no passion between them. I don't think it was a boring story, but I did skip ahead in the book to get to the interaction between Mike and Athena since it was suppose to be about them. It had the makings of a good story, but it did not make a good romance. Maybe SD Maddox should consider just writing fiction instead of romance novels.

I tried to read this book but could not finish it. It was TERRIBLE!! I am sorry but this book never focused on the main characters at all. Things happened,(as leter described by the characters), that were important but missed by the reader. The author seemed to spend more time concentrating on everyone else except for the main characters. It was the middle of the book before the characters had any interaction. Please do not waste your money on this book. You will be angry. I wish I could give it "0" stars.