Miss Jenesequa

I Got You

Courteney Taylor

This was a long book for me. I'm sure it's short for others though. It was 405 Kindle pages. It took until around 280 pages for them to realize they weren't just f_-k buddies but actually cared for each other. I like slow burns but not that slow. 

There were many times that it felt like the author began narrating the book as a movie. It was like there was the regular kind of narration and then on top of that there was a separate narration. There was also a lot of unnecessary explanations for things, or double explanations. There's a scene where they hook up and it's messy. She falls asleep and then wakes up clean. We understand from that scene that he must have cleaned her up. But she explains that he cleaned her up and then explains it in another way right after. 

The part where his Jordana overhears his uncle seems extremely unrealistic and was difficult to read through and find it to be a believable situation that would actually happen. I also wasn't a fan of him sleeping with an employee with an NDA. The situation with her coworker also felt really unnecessary to advance the story. It felt really random and happened so quick. Toward the end there were a lot of quick, major issues and then quick solutions.

Three epilogues is a lot to put in a book. It reminded me of the ending of movies where they have this, "where are they now" kind of after the ending, ending. You'll see them getting married, having kids, traveling, opening a store or whatever. I feel like with the 400+ pages that were written we could have seen the 3 epilogues included in it. Or we could have seen it all combined into one epilogue.

I also didn't like the kingpin aspect of the book either. This could have been a story about a successful Black man and Black woman who thrived in their businesses and found love with one another. 

If you're interested in a SPICY book then this is the one for you. At times I skipped through some of the spice because it was too much for me lol. It was definitely that NASTY kind of spicy for sure. ;) There's also a lot of cursing so if that's a no no for you then keep that in mind.

I Got You

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