She had it coming
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- ISBN: 9780758212191 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0758212194 (hbk.)
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293 p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New York : Dafina ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2008.
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Subject: | African American women -- Fiction Polygamy -- Fiction |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2008 August #1
Dolores Reese has had a rough life, but she has managed to stay  out of trouble. A foster child in South Central L.A., her boyfriend, Floyd, ends up  wrongly arrested, charged with the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, and sentenced to life in prison. Dolores is crushed,  but she  slowly rebuilds her life while promising to stick by Floyd no matter what. However, she  meets and marries Paul, keeping Floyd a complete secret even though she visits him monthly. On one of these visits, Floyd asks her to marry him, and feeling pity, she agrees and goes through with the ceremony. Then Floyd is released, and Dolores  finds herself building lies on top of lies as she lives two separate lives with two separate husbands. It's only a matter of time before she is found out. Though it all seems rather farfetched, Monroe keeps the suspense high, and readers will draw a bated breath with the turn of each page. Copyright 2006 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2008 September #1
Best-selling author Monroe (Deliver Me from Evil ) serves up a tasty dish of murder, deception, lust, and just deserts in her new novel. Delores Reese has had it hard all her life. She was born to a drug-addicted mother and raised in the foster-care system. Her high school sweetheart and fianc, Floyd Watson, is wrongly convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to life in prison. Delores, aka Lo, resigns to her troubled life and decides to support Floyd while he does his time. In the interim, she meets Paul. They eventually marry, but Lo maintains her earlier engagement and continues visiting Floyd on the sly. But one day, she is blown away by Floyd's urgent news: he's been cleared by new evidence, and they can get married! Lo ends up with two husbands, both in the dark about her double life, and one big dilemma. Although the premise seems unbelievable, Monroe's fans will not be disappointed. Recommended for all public libraries and African American fiction collections.âCarol Johnson, Cleveland P.L.
[Page 120]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2008 June #4
The question in Monroe's steamy but seedy shocker is who should suffer the most: the unreliable narrator or her BFF who commits murder on the night of their senior prom? Dolores Reese, a foster child, and her best friend, Valerie Proctor, get caught in a web of deadly secrets after "LoReese" witnesses Valerie killing her stepfather, Zeke Proctor, to protect her mother. The friends drift apart but stay in sporadic touch, and 16 years later, Lo, now married, confides her own secret: she's jailhouse married to her first love, Floyd Watson, who's been locked up for years on a bogus rape/murder charge. When Floyd is belatedly cleared of the charges, Lo's determined to stay married to both men, and Valerie agrees to help her. Monroe draws a bleak picture of how secrets can wreck friendships, but she fails to create much sympathy for either the sometimes sarcastic and conceited Lo or Valerie. Readers might find Lo's bigamy lifestyle a little too unbelievable and a late-breaking affair too out-of-left-field, but those who can sit back and go along with the chain of double-crosses and deception should enjoy the ride. (Sept.)
[Page 34]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.