pickMy favorite author has done it again. He kept me turning pages, and even made me shed tears. But then those tears became joyful. He keeps his readers on pins and needles, forever catching them off guard. Read this novel, but get your mind ready for the roller coaster!!!
“Only knew that that I had been pregnant back in March.” - Two men and one pregnant woman. Who is the father?
“I told Monica, ‘When you get to them they will take you home. Tell Tommie, Blue, Livvy, and Tony I love them, okay?‘” - This is going to make me cry. I know it sounds corny, but I wasn‘t expecting this.
“Moments later the news reported that Franklin Carruthers had been located in Culver City. His home in Blair Hills had been burned. Franklin had been found in his garage. He had been murdered.” - I am speechless; I thought someone else was murdered, never Franklin.
“The lunatic stabbed me again.” - I am tired of this!!!
“She stabbed my leg. I screamed in pain, a level of pain I had never known.” - Frankie is going to die if this stalker keeps stabbing her.
“Inside the cup was a detached penis with boegroes surgically inserted under the foreskin.” - Frankie‘s stalker did this. Did I say that this person is disturbed in every way?
“It happened so fast, in the blink of an eye. She stabbed me.” - Frankie does not expect her stalker to do this and in front of a child. This stalker is disturbed in every way.
“If you love me as you say, be my ally, my second self, not a false friend gathering ammunition and waiting for my weakest moment to start firing secrets.” Tommie McBroom says the “other man”, Beales Street.
You know that love is real when a person tells the other, “I would leave you and abandon the children to be with him again. I would leave all you have and choose to be poor with him.” - Tommie says these words to the other man, Beales Street, once she realizes that Blue, her real boyfriend, is her one and only true love. She belongs with Blue and Monica, his daughter.
“Tommie limped around like she was auditioning for The Walking Dead and kept cringing and making butt-ugly faces.” - If running a marathon makes people walk like this, I‘ll pass...lol There‘s that imagery again.
“He took out a sledgehammer, and like John Henry, he raised it up and brought it down on the hood of Franklin‘s car.” - I have no words for this imagery. I could see this action taking place as I read these lines.
“Next time you go down, you‘ll be six feet under the people already six feet under.” - Now you know that a person has to be beyond mad to tell someone this.
Eric Jerome Dickey uses figurative language that keeps his readers laughing 😂 😅🤣 or wondering how he uses his devices in such a creative manner. 💡 💡 💡.
A late Christmas read...
Naughtier Than Nice | 
