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The author of My Daughter's Boyfriend re-sifts and comes up with an irresistible title based on a cool-headed premise. Anya Meadows suffers from FSAD—Female Sexual Arousal Disorder ("a condition that affects 47 million women for a variety of reasons"). To keep her husband Neil ("a taller, thinner, less insane version of Mike Tyson") from leaving her and daughter Reese, she proposes a contract: find a girlfriend, sort of: oral sex only, encounters no more than twice a week, no falling in love. The book opens, alas, with Anya sitting at home, awaiting word on the birth of Neil's new son, Braxton, with Neil's contract-girlfriend (and co-worker) Danielle. Rax shifts the book's first person among the three principles fluidly: Anya loves her stay-at-home-mom lifestyle, dependent on Neil's job as a capital projects manager at a local Houston college. Trying-to-do-the-right-thing Neil loves Anya, but also cares for the few-class-tiers-lower Dani, who is (in her own words) "spirited, decent-looking, employed, fun-loving, supportive." But among other drama, Neil's boss finds it unacceptable that a married, "high-profile" member of the department is "openly having babies with someone else." Rax manages the fallout from her exaggerated plot with insight, zip and wit, and airs multiple conflicts within black middle-class life in compelling detail. (Nov.)
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Tracey Kendricks had her daughter, Lauren, when she was 17. She has instilled in Lauren the importance of waiting to have sex. Now that she is 17, Lauren is struggling to follow her mother's advice and maintain her relationship with her first boyfriend, Aaron. He is older, extremely handsome, and patient, yet he is anxious for their relationship to develop. Innocently, Aaron begins to flirt with Tracey, whom he finds smart and sexy. Reeling from another disappointing relationship and hurtful breakup with a man her own age, Tracey is caught off guard by her response to his advances. She discovers that, in spite of his youth, Aaron is quite mature and understanding. Tracey and Aaron become involved in a hot and secret affair that has immense consequences. When they are discovered, Tracey has to face up to her daughter in a way that is both painful and regretful. Tracey and Lauren attempt to heal and rebuild their mother-daughter relationship in a book that reads like an episode from Jerry Springer. Lillian Lewis
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Three Rivers Press (June 28, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1400083133
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400083138
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #662,849 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Great Idea for a Book......BUT, June 22, 2004
By Simon Loves Books "simon-loves-books" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Daughter's Boyfriend: A Novel (Hardcover)
I was ready to really get into some serious character development with this one, but I was sadly mistaken. Yes the sex scene between the 30 something woman and 20 something man lived up to what you would expect. But nobody's character was well-defined enough to make me understand the whys behind the relationship. I didn't LIKE any particular character in this book. And at one point I was actually just wishing that the daughter would hurry up and find out so we could move on from the "made-up" drama. I thought this was a great idea for a book, but the dialogue, lack of character development and lack of a male/female relationship that you could actually root for just made me quickly read this book and put it in my "never to be touched again" category.
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars I Can't Believe I Finished This...., July 6, 2004
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This review is from: My Daughter's Boyfriend: A Novel (Hardcover)
I can not understand how reviewers gave this book four and five stars. I do understand that this author has many friends in the African-American literary world so that may be a reason for so many good reviews. Just read her acknowledgments pages, I can't believe out of all the wonderful authors she named, no one had the guts to tell her to go back to the lab with this one. The subject of this novel accomplished what it set out to do, and that's make the audience curious. How would Tracey try to justify sleeping with her teenage daughter's boyfriend? That's where it ends, with that question. Once you start reading this book you'll have no definitive answers because the characters have no depth, you will not be sympathetic to their plight.

Tracey made me sick, she didn't have a lick of sense. She ran behind one man to the point of stalking and then took her daughter's man with absolutely no regard for her daughter's feelings whatsoever. How are we as readers supposed to empathize at all with this woman? The plot was long and drawn out with unbelievable situations. As dumb as Tracey and Aaron were with their so called "sneaking" around, someone would have found out about them much sooner.

The best character was Regis Collier and she's the reason I gave the book two stars instead of one. Unfortunately, you only got to read a little bit about her. I was able to stomach the "Lauren" chapters but whenever I saw "Tracey" or "Aaron" as the chapter headings I knew I would read really fast. I don't know how I finished this book but I did.

I can not in good conscience say buy this book, it's better off borrowed.

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Potential Not Realized, June 17, 2004
By Lisa Simms (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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I thought this was a great storyline! The story of a mother sleeping with her daughter's boyfriend can be a juicy and sensational tale in the hands of the right writer. Unfortunately, for me at least, this author does not show that capability.

The problems to me began with the poor character development. It's difficult to believe and understand a mother actually doing this, but this is fiction. To make it believable in fiction, the mother's motivation or her thinking as to why should be shown. This was not the case. It wasn't shown why this mother would choose to do something uncharacteristic of a loving mother. Also, the mother's behavior seemed so juvenile. The boyfriend's character was very inconsistent. One moment he's wise beyond his years, the next moment he's calling the distraught daughter the B word and locking her outside in the rain. Just very inconsistent.

Some of the scenes were dragged out way to long, past the point of anything happening. And I got so tired of going through the daughter packing and going to the airport so many times. Made it seem like page fillers. And the author TELLS you everything that happens instead of allowing the readers to experience and discover. In a lot of places, settings are actually described in book report fashion as if there is no capability for bringing setting out through description or dialogue. This is usally typical of self-published writers.

In telling the story, the author tries too hard to be clever and a lot of the analogies and metaphores used just come off as corny and dumb. The story was choppy and did not have a smooth flow because it seemed like she was trying to write like someone else or for others rather than her own style. It just didn't flow. The dialogue was sometimes silly and very amateurish. For instance, the characters used each others names quite often when speaking and real conversation doesn't go that way. Personally, I find that annoying.

I'm slightly disappointed because the author is a reviewer and I enjoy her reviews and her site. But apparently, writing and crafting a good story isn't as easy as it seems. I would still support any book she puts out though because she's a great supporer of african american books. When writing reviews though, I have to be honest about what I really though regardless of who the author is.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A very good read
When I first picked this book up I was hooked from beginning to end.I could not put it down for one minute!The story and the plot are very well written. Read more
Published 5 days ago by "Goodbookaholic"

2.0 out of 5 stars not one i liked
i assume this book is aimed at 16-24 bracket, i fall into this
i brought this book about 8months ago, im half way though, i can not bring myself to finish it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars what a theme
what a theme.mother takes daughters boyfreind daughter wasnt giving up no booty what do you expect:). Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Mother ucker:-)
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The lady was crazy to do something like that!!! How could she have her daughters boyfriend. I liked the book a lot but I was like gosh why did she have to be a single parent like... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Unacceptable Actions!
This was just not acceptable. Being attracted to your daughter's boyfriend and then acting on the attraction is awful. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing story
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