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Genevieve | 
| Author: Eric Jerome Dickey
Creator: Richard Allen
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Unabridged
Category: Book
Buy New: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  194 reviews
Sales Rank: 1489674
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.2 x 2.7
ISBN: 1593559984
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781593559984
ASIN: 1593559984
Publication Date: May 10, 2005
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Product Description
Eric Jerome Dickey's boldly sensual new novel centers on what his fans love best - steamy romance and shocking betrayal. This is an edge-of-your-seat novel about a good man who loves his wife, Genevieve, but finds himself drawn against his best intentions into an affair - with his wife's sister. Both women have a mysterious and tragic past that raises the stakes in this fast-paced novel. Genevieve hits all the crowd-pleasing notes that we have come to expect from a Dickey novel, delivered in a style that is sexy, raw, humorous, and thrilling all at once. It should once again place him on the nation's bestseller lists.
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 Past sins October 7, 2008
This books is great. One of the best EJD books i have read. It showed that no matter how much you try or how much you change, you cannot forget home. You cannot leave your past, no matter how gruesome it is. Eric Jerome Dickey have showed how Genevieve have came up from the slums of the south and educated herself into being a well-educated mind with a great career and life, but yet cannot escape the shadows of what her family tree have done.
I carried this book with me more than my purse July 29, 2008
I love it. I reserved it in the library, and I had to buy it as soon as I was done. I LOVE IT.
 Hurting people hurt others. July 28, 2008
This is the story of two sucessful, upper middle class, seemingly happily married couple both hiding secrets. Dr Genevieve Forbes a successful lady with 3 degrees, who keeps her maiden name, can advice on stock options etc but cannot provide her husband the sexual intimacy he craves and does not seem aware of his needs. The unnamed husband, an AIDS researcher who longs to sexually satisfy his wife (hence the many sex scenes to show what really happens in their bedroom). At first Genevieve seems like a cold, frigid fish to her husbands lusty banter and comes across as a wife who performs out of duty rather then enjoyment. This sets the scene for Mr G to be vulnerable to any women who is on his sexual level and he meets his sexual match when they travel down South to attend a relative's funeral. The story gets interesting from there and secrets on both sides are revealed that explains their personalities. I enjoyed this book but found it sad, I kept thinking Genevieve, her husband and Kenya all need therapy. For highly intelligent people they had the emotional intelligence of sand. I would give this 5 stars if not for the abrupt and highly unrealistic ending.
 Can we talk for a minute EJD???? July 27, 2008
As a fellow writer, who is not on your level of success of course, I find it hard to believe that a basic rule has been missed by you. You will be suprised to know I have not finished this book, and with only 100 pages left, I was going to toss it aside as you just having a publishing deadline, needed something to catch the editors attention, and whipped something together that had a beginnig (and from what I read in the reviews - a good ending), but you didn't think about how to get from point A to point B.
Now, what is missing from this...I will tell you. First, I guess I am luckier than most readers, in that I took a break from you for a while, so your previously written works have not come across my hands. I do however count myself luck for having just bought a prior book of yours on discount "Chasing Destiny" WHICH I LOVED!!!!!!!!! But in this book, you should know that when a character has internal dialogue - the action between the other characters in the book stops. In writing, unless you are known for such prose, should NEVER go on for pages at a time. After 150 pages, we are introduced to no other characters connected to our main characters...no coworkers, no neighbors, no relatives, no delivery man, Avon Rep., nothing! These characters are not allowed to interact with anyone else, so their personalities are heresay...and with that, I really could care less about them.
When we get to the south...it is at least refreshing to get to know other characters, and get a feel of who Genevieve is. I am sure this ending is related to this, but you should have just hacked out a novella (really, a shout story), to tell this story. What good is a great ending, when the journey leading to it was so bad that ANY ENDING is bound to be good?
...I am sure you have improved in your later novels, and I am sure the juices can't flow all the time. Look forward to reading another one of your works.
 AFTER A FAST START IT SLOWS TO A CRAWL July 17, 2008
I read a fair number of Dickey's earlier books and found myself no longer reading African-American fiction because it started to feel like all of the stories were the same, same situations, same characters with different names. I have to admit that this story was definitely not the same as the other books and I was happy to find that.
After getting off to a fast start and bringing you into the book pretty fast you are quickly slowed down to the many pages of character development and boring relationship struggles that setup the conflict for the indiscretions that take place.
I really had a hard time getting through the book for a variety of reasons including the stale dialog between the couples, but I do admit that some of the angles that Dickey approaches the conversation from were very realistic relationship debacles that people have. Another thing that was hard to follow for some chapters was who all of the relatives were - you would find yourself saying "is that the relative on the mother's side or father's side" when often times it turned out to not be very relevant to the story. Lastly, I'll say that the sex scenes felt a little overdone after awhile to say the least.
Some of the findings in the story weren't that major, but I did find a major payoff at the end of the book when some things were revealed. I won't give any spoilers, but I will say that the end of the book redeemed the book as a whole where I would give it a half-hearted recommendation if someone were looking for a relationship book with a twist involving African-American characters.
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