Between Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey
A Review By: SY
From New York Times best-selling author Eric Jerome Dickey comes this sexy novel brimming with the steamy voices of three desperately intertwined lovers.
Dickey centers the story on an L.A.-based writer who is obsessed with gorgeous, nubile Nicole - the very same woman who left him at the altar just three years before. Nicole is torn between her ongoing love for him and her passion for the beautiful Ayanna. It’s time for Nicole to make a decision - keep the writer and lose Ayanna, or try to accommodate both and risk losing everything in a conflagration of uninhibited sexuality.
Fashionable and hot, this irresistible book will delight you with its sensuous view of the bedroom when the lights are out and the candles are lit.
Review Notes:
Audio Book Publication Year: 2010
An installment in a Series? No
Narrator (s): Dion Graham
From best-selling author Eric Jerome Dickey comes this sexy novel brimming with the steamy voices of three desperately intertwined lovers.
The late Eric Jerome Dickey is a beloved figure in the Black literary fiction world, and "Between Lovers" is a great reminder of why. His pen delivers prose with perfection, providing beautiful character development, plot pacing, and dialogue, while telling the story completely from the male protagonist's point of view. In what seems like a love triangle scenario that won't resolve without violence, Dickey allows full transparency to the emotions involved when two people love the same person...and also have their own brand of explosive chemistry together.
Released in the early 2000s, those of us that remember the era will relish the nostalgic throwback references of technology, clothing and retail brands that dominated the time. Remember Pier One Imports, anyone?
Dion Graham is phenomenal in his performance - his intuition for interpreting the characters is incredible, delivering the dialogue and narrative naturally and with all the justice that Dickey's style deserves. The only noticeable imperfection in the audio is of the post-production variety - the listener can hear subtle swallows in Graham's recording - and that can be blamed upon the fact that the audio was recorded in 2014, when editing tech wasn't what it is today.
This is one of those books that takes you through all the emotions, but still makes you feel good. Dickey’s work reads like poetry, and it feels like...love.
Reading Recommendation? Yes!
Rating: 5 (I need another one!)
Content Warnings? None
