Big Girls Do Cry by Carl WeberMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was yet another roller coaster that I loved so so much, and it happened in Richmond, Virginia...
Egypt and Rashad had just moved into their new house with Isis in tow after everything she did in the last book. Egypt and Rashad are very happy and in love...except they want one thing: a baby that they can call their own. Sadly, not even Tammy can give them a baby, so they ask the one person who can: Egypt's sister, Isis, who was still pining over Tony, who is a married man and had kids of his own. Isis agrees to be the surrogate for Egypt and Rashad, but things don't go well, especially when Isis is flirting with her sister's man and is still messing around with Tony. When she finally does get pregnant with Egypt and Rashad's baby, everything is fine and also annoying, with Egypt almost trying to control everything Isis does to keep the baby. But when the baby came, though...the eyes the baby had weren't Rashad's.
Turns out, the baby's real baby daddy is none other than Tony.
Now, during all of this, there is a second party that comes to play in the story. Loraine and Jerome are besties working in the same place and living their best lives. Loraine has the perfect marriage--or some people think since her husband Leon has been putting his hands on her. When Loraine finds a pair of red silk panties between the seats of her sofa, she starts thinking that Leon is cheating on her. It does happen again during a sorority meeting, when she was being nominated for sorority leader or something like that.
Things just don't feel right at home, and Loraine kicks Leon out, and then she turns around and starts seeing people--an army man I believe named Terrence whom she slept with under the stars near a beautiful fountain, and an old friend named Michael. Everything was going well, she was having a sizzling affair, and Leon crying that he wanted her back. Even in therapy she finally says that the sex was terrible (Leon is a one-minute man, apparently).
Jerome is a gay man who only wants the best for his bestie, but after he sleeps with one man named Peter McMann, that's when things start turning dark. With everything Peter is doing--calling him, sending photos of him with an aspiring NBA star, a woman who was paid to pretend that she was sleeping with Leon when in reality she wasn't, sending racy photos of him and said NBA star in the parking lot, basically stalking him and making sure that "no one can have him, only he can"...sounds scary. But when Peter tells Loraine and shows him everything he's done, the besties' friendship is over...or is it?
Really loved this installment of the Big Girls Book Club series, might be my favorite one of all time.
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