Book Review: Big Girls Do Cry by Carl Weber

Big Girls Do Cry by Carl Weber
My 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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Book Review: Something on the Side by Carl Weber

Something on the Side by Carl Weber
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a ride for me...a ride I didn't think I would enjoy, but I did.

Tammy wanting a threesome with her husband and her best friend Egypt threw me off a bit. I had a feeling that she was going to regret it, but then things started to get weird when Tammy started getting paranoid about her husband Tim sleeping around with Egypt and regretted even doing the threesome. But one night, her husband decided to get her to sleep with someone else, to get it out of her system. Unfortunately, that sparked an affair that made Tammy regret and think about her husband and she broke it off after Tim discovered that she was cheating on him...oof.

Nikki went through so many things in her life that she's in a happy relationship with her girlfriend, Tiny. She has a son with her baby daddy Dewayne who used to put his hands on her, but once she left and got with Tiny, things were good...until a new guy named Keith appeared and all Nikki could think about was Keith, which made Tiny weirdly jealous. Tiny tried everything to make sure Nikki was still her girl, even though Nikki was walking on eggshells around Tiny. When she starts to sneak around Tiny and be with Keith and starts to eat right, things are going well...until Nikki freaks out over Keith's ding-a-ling not being real and tells them to leave, only to read the letter and find out that Keith is transitioning, and she talked to him and decided that they should take it slow and be friends.

Coco was a straight-up freak- no pun intended. She uses men to get the most expensive things and also gets some on the side, until she meets Jackson Barneshill or something like that and becomes his mistress--the only thing is, she can't see other men. That was the case--she got her Mercedes, she shopped everywhere she wanted in NYC and lives in a bomb-ass apartment. It seemed like Coco had gotten everything she could ever want...until she met Mac Reynolds at a poetry contest and fell deep in love with him. She left Jackson to be with him, and then turns around and leaves him after finding out he was a porn star, thanks to Tammy's gift when she went to see her one day. Coco broke up with him and got back with Jackson, only to turn around and get back with Mac after they met and talked about it.

The reason why I'm putting Isis last is because good lord Isis got on my last damn nerve. Isis is in love with a man named Tony and wants to marry him. She kept pushing it and pushing it, until one day when she was about to smash him after a book club meeting, she got a phone call from Rashad who called her "Pooh". Isis tries to ignore him, tells him to leave her alone, and that she's with Tony now, and that's when things start to go downhill for her. One, when she's in Vegas she finds out that Tony is a married man with kids and decides that she's gonna go to his wife and tell her that she's been with Tony and they've been sleeping together. Did the wife freak out about that? Yes.

But wait--there's more to Isis's madness that even I couldn't even write.

Tony and Rashad do meet and Tony does kick Rashad's ass, but after all of that, Isis thought that she could crawl back to Rashad after choosing Tony...but it turns out that Rashad is with Egypt now, and that sent her into depression to the point that she tried to kill herself, and it took Rashad and Egypt to take her to the hospital to get her stomach pumped and to save her life.

All in all, this was a VERY wild book and I did enjoy myself reading it.

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