Book Review: Best Of Friends
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- November 23rd, 2008 |
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“Best of Friends” is a novel about the lives of the “Fabulous Five.” The Fabulous Five is a group comprised of five fantastic, loyal ladies who have been best friends for years. Each Black in the group has her own issues to deal with and to learn from. The account mainly centers around Liz, whose mother has just passed away. Liz’s family is about as dysfunctional as a family can be. The siblings have appropriated sides with each other. Liz always tries to be neutral, but when their backstabbing antics are directed at her, she finds herself ineffective to do so anymore.
Kim is another lady in the group who has finally met Mr. Right. Kiona, a female player, is deciding to root with one of her catches. When she and her boyfriend decide to move in unitedly, they both have to learn to make compromises and to get over their commitment phobias. AJ allowed a bad marriage to binge her down and accept her out of a promising career. Struggling
to care for her twin daughters, piece she is on good, she fears that all is going to be lost. But her perseverance finally pays off and she finds herself back on belt. Quineeta is single and loving it, however, when she has a health crisis, she relies on herself to get finished it, when really she should have let her friends be thither for her.
“Best of Friends” is truly an enjoyable novel. The author, Sherry Brantley has an awesome imagination which she puts to consume in dreaming up plots for Liz’s family to consume against each other. She does an excellent job of character development. These ladies are real cubic and Brantley lets you into their heads and hearts to make them appear more real. I could relate to so many of their experiences, and the doubts and fears that invade their minds were so similar to my own. Brantley also incorporates a adjoin of otherworldliness end-to-end her writing. I loved this because as she addresses Liz’s dilemmas, she does so in a artifact that has Liz evaluating her actions on a higher level and making the realization that if she had appropriated the higher road, things would have been better. It wouldn’t have been as fun to read about tho’!
“Best of Friends” is a must read for a women’s reader groups. This will be a fun book to discuss. It is also the perfect book for a lady that needs an evening to herself, where she just wants to cuddle up with a great account. Don’t miss this one!
Best of Friends
Sherry Brantley
Lulu (2005)
ISBN 9781411645455
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (4/07)