I really think that some writers and musicians only give one very good word or album in them. Usher's Confessions was great, Raymond v. Raymond not so much. Sean Paul's Dutty Rock was plenty to get me spend a year flying backwards and forward to Jamaica trying to get the essence of which he sang. Everything he's put out since then is just meh. Do you see where I'm going with this?So I was disturbed when I received Sweet Little Lies. What if it wasn't as well as the author's first book, Heard It All Before? I shouldn't have spent a minute worrying because Sweet Little Lies is only as good, if not better. Christina Brinsley has created the gross world for herself. She has the career, the house, the car and the fiance'. Scratch that. She HAD the fiance, her third fiance' to be exact. When he dropped a bomb on her good days before their wedding, her world went into a spin. A week after she finds herself on the sheet to New York for work, seated next to the same delivery guy who was a viewer to her run down at home just days ago. In honoring the phrase, "there's more to him than meets the eye," the handsome delivery guy who witnessed Christina's breakup with her fiance' is actually a graduate student flying back to New York to finish school after a summer in the Bay area. Sure Christina Brinsley is hot, but Steven Williams can already say that she's a high maintenance bougie chick that may be more pain than she's worth. So is it destiny or a bad turn of circumstances that lands him on her escape? In between pursuing their careers, Christina and Steven burn up the pages with an intense game of cat and mouse that takes them from slide to coast and challenges them both to take to swear again.What did you care about this book? Christina is such a literal character. Like a lot of people she's so busy trying to control situations and second guessing everyone else that she stands in the way of her own happiness. I kept wanting to call out, "Get out of your way!" And Steven? If a man as complete as this exists, I can but trust that Michele Grant has patented him and started producing his clone in bulk quantities.What didn't you care about this word? I detest the cover. The woman on it is fairly enough, but she's not at all what I think Christina would seem like. What could the source do to amend this book? Keep writing. I'm appreciative of books that have adult characters and Grant does an excellent job of bringing both the grown and sexy.
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