Entertaining Journey

E. Lynn Harris has a formula for writing that always seems to work and is fairly predictable! I suppose he sticks to the adage, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

It is a story of a young man, his mother's love and her secrets, a deceitful woman, and a number of good men! As predicted, the book will make you laugh, sigh, think and remember (if you ever were in college).

The story is told with 3 narrators, 2 are women and the only down side for me, was the male narrator who attempted to produce a southern male voice. At the beginning, his interpretation was awful! The male narrator sounded more like a antebellum southern slave, who makes attempts to speak like a 1870's white southerner! It was quite obviously fake and this made it quite annoying. I wondered why the producer of the audio did not find an authentic southern male narrator instead of selecting someone who did not have a natural southern accent. I almost gave up on the book within the first couple of chapters. However, eventually the male narrator gave up the pretense and used a more natural college aged male voice and it flowed much better, was more believable.

The story itself has enough twists to keep you listening and reacting as a good story book should. All in all, not Mr. Harris' best, but not his worst either!

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Great read!

Loved this book! Just enough drama to keep me interested without being over the top. Great ending.

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Not one of his best...

the narrators I really didn't care for. The book itself was ok. Not one of his best books.

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Phenomenal

This should be a short series. Expand on what happened to the characters ie Niko and Chole.

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Overall great book. Disappointed in presentation.

I didn't like how the three narrators read like three totally different personas. I felt like each changed the roles. One would read Brady one way and the other another. It kind of took away from getting into the story and changed the way you understood and felt about a character to the point of frustration. Especially with May Jean. All 3 narrators had a different presentation of May Jean and I did not like that. Overall story was great. Wish there was more developed after Brady graduated. I felt like it was a bit rushed just to finish the book. I hope there's a sequel well worth listening to.

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Horrible Narration!!!

The male narrator is so bad that I almost didn't finish the story. The other narrators were only marginally better. What a disappointment.

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Just Too Bad...

Smitten with The Help, I sought out more of narrator Bahni Turpin's work. The listening-snippet provided by Audible of Just Too Good to Be True is admittedly intriguing. The book as a whole, however, is another story. Reminiscent of a sixth grader's writing, Harris's attempt at working slang into the dialog is clich? and unrealistic. Excessive descriptions do nothing to liven or advance the story. Do we need to know every item each character is wearing at all times? Do we need recycled descriptions of each character's skin tone? Cinnamon toast, caramel, chocolate milk...we get it, we get it...everybody in Harris's novel is attractive, like the African-American version of Melrose Place. And like a TV melodrama, this book is all fluff. If Harris focused less on irrelevant details and more on developing a story, Just Too Good... Might've had some potential. As it is, however, I find this story to be a total disappointment.

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good read

loved listening to this book, it kept my interest from beginning to the end.

Too Many Characters

It was okay. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. I feel it was poorly written, but the narrators made it more tolerable. It was too predictable also.🤷🏾‍♀️ I'm just glad I finished the book in time for book club.

HAD MY ATTENTION TO THE END!!!! I Recommend!!!!

I absolutely LOVED this Book. I wish it could have been a Series. Love All E LYNN HARRIS BOOKS.