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Tell Me Something Good

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This book was the best and I learned a lot about art history and even more about the relationships "Creole" blacks with other AAs's in Louisiana. The romance was excellent too,as was the plot, and I got a new sense of New Orleans even though I have visited it many times.I give it five stars and will read other books by Ms.Emery.

Mrs. St. Denis and her grandson Noel, CEO of the Treme Corporation, hire Taylor Gallery to appraise the family art collection. Lyrissa Rideau, an assistant at Taylor, is especially pleased with the assignment because she has a personal interest. She believes that the ancestors of the St. Denis brood stole a valuable painting from her family. Lyrissa plans to get it back.

While checking into the St. Denis collection that is not fully catalogued and is spread among the extended family, Lyrissa finds Noel courting her though she rejects his advances. Noel is stunned, but he is beginning to believe in love at first sight, as he wants Lyrissa at his side. Overcoming unbelievable barriers, Noel and Lyrissa fall in love, but she wonders what will happen to their relationship when he learns how she manipulated the St. Denis and the prize she covets for her family.

Though the obstinate Lyrissa slows down the romance, her resolve enables the reader to better understand what motivates her. The story line engages the audience as the agendas of the secondary characters pop up whenever it seems as if the lead couple is taking a step closer to intimacy. Noel is a warm, compassionate person, perhaps a bit too perfect, as he patiently tries to get his beloved to see that they belong together. Lynn Emery furbishes a wonderful multicultural romance that emphasizes the depth of the female lead character's quandary between her heart and a lifetime of lessons about the ignoble thieving St. Denis brood.

Harriet Klausner

Lyrissa Rideau has been given the job of trying to secure her family's treasured painting so she gets a job in the logical place for art to show up -- in an art dealer's shop.

Noel St. Denis' paths cross with Lyrissa's when he escorts his grandmother to the dealer's shop. Noel is very taken with Lyrissa and the feeling is mutual. However, Lyrissa's family reminds her of her obligation to family and also the commitment Noel has for his family.

"Tell Me Something Good" is about two young people who have certain family values they must honor, but who are thrown together and cannot so easily forget their feelings for each other. What will they do? Will they take "The Sunday Stroll" into paradise or will they let their families' problems dictate their lives? Read it to find out.

Ms. Emery has written another great book worth buying and reading!

Lyrissa Rideau's two aunts have always believed that now deceased members of the very wealthy Creole St. Denis family stole a painting from their family years ago. Through years of listening to her aunts discuss the painting and the thieving St. Denis family, Lyrissa is certain that the story is true. The painting is now valuable both financially and figuratively. The aunts hope that repossession of the painting will also elevate their social standing to where it once was before the family was duped by the St. Denis'.

Georgina St. Denis along with her grandson Noel, have hired the Taylor Gallery to pull the family art together and appraise the entire collection. As assistant to gallery owner Shelton Taylor, Lyrissa is in the perfect position to reclaim her families painting. However, Lyrissa soon finds herself being romanced by none other than handsome and persuasive Noel St. Denis, CEO of his families powerful company, Treme Corporation. Lyrissa rejects his advances but can't ignore her increasingly warming feelings toward Noel. He certainly is not what she expected from a St. Denis. But the romance will never get off the ground if Noel's grandmother or his long time friend Felice can stop it. Felice and Georgina St. Denis are cut from the same fabric and both believe that Lyrissa is not good enough for Noel.

As always Ms Emery's novels combine romance with intriquing plots, emotional truths and unexpected turns. 'Tell Me Something Good' is good reading.

Vannie(~.~)

This book is by far my most favorite by Ms. Lynn Emery. I've even learned about some of the Creole history in Lousianna. The plot was well put. The romance was amazing. I really loved it. I cwould recommend it to anyone. Please don't borrow this book because if you do you won't want to give it back. GO BUY IT!!!

I highly recommend this book. It's a good read and full of surprizises. Though the beginning is really hard to get into, I would encourage you to keep reading because the end is such a shocker.

Lyrissa Rideau is on a mission. She is chosen by her family to reclaim a priceless family treasure, that was stolen from them. Everything is going as planned for Lyrissa, she is employed at an art gallery and she has been hired to research the valueable and exspansive art collection of the St. Denis family, they are one of the most powerful and influential families in New Orleans. Lyrissa is calm, cool, collected and focused on the job at hand, until she meets Noel St. Denis one of the most handsome and charming men that she has ever met.

Noel St. Denis knows that he is a handsome man, he is also charming, powerful and rich. most importantly he is the head of the Treme Corporation, which is the jewel in the crown of the St. Denis family empire. He is the man that Lyrissa will have to go head to head with in order to get back what rightfully belongs to her family. Noel is also known around town as a playboy, but upon his first glance of Lyrissa he immediately wants to change his ways.

In author Lynn Emery's Tell Me Something Good we get a glance into the beautiful city of New Orleans and we learn about deceit and prejudice among the towns Black elite. I enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it to others. -- Reviewed by Simone Hawks.

I'm not going to give you a plot summary, you can see that up top. But I will say this: I absolutely love this book and have read it several times. I'm a young woman at the tender age of 20 so I'm usually very typical with what I read. Raw & uncut, street lit and urban novels have always been my thing. However, I gave this book a chance when I found it in my mom's stash and I'm so happy that I did. It was different and though the romance didn't fully blossom until well into the book, the story definitely kept me entertained. The characters, especially Lyrissa and Noel, were truly brought to life by Miss Emery. Read this book! It exemplifies that love does conquer all. Since reading this, I've bought 4 other novels by Miss Emery but this still has to be my fave. Anyway, do check out some of her other novels ("Gotta Get Next to You", "Kiss Lonely Goodbye" and especially "All I Want is Forever"). Miss Emery has great, reality based story lines and characters and she's never failed to show that through it all, the rain, the storm and the pain, when something is meant to be, it WILL be. Best wishes!

This was sensational love novel among different cultures.I love the new relationship between Lyrissa and Noel Creole & African
American. Also, the learning of historical sites in "Big Easy".
Hopefully,it can comes back to its norms. There was alot of good parts in the novel.This aseasonal must read buy novel with 5 stars.