If you love novels with spice, swipe right on this one
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By Terri Schlichenmeyer
Left, left, right, left again.
You’d never date that one.
Or that one. Yes to him, no,
no, yes, and WOW yes. Meeting
folks on a phone isn’t something
Great-Grandma ever did,
and in the new novel “Careful
What You Click For” by Mary B.
Morrison, Granny never dated
like this, either.
Not many people could
afford to retain the services of
Jordan Jackson.
The lovely Ms. Jackson was
a lawyer who commanded big
money to get her clients out of
trouble, but power and influence
didn’t love her. She hadn’t
had a man in her bed in many
months. It was time to do
something about that.
Jordan knew Victoria, Chancellor,
and Kingston from Hope
for All Church; they were the
usher team. Victoria, sixtysomething
but looking far
younger, was the mistress of
a much older man. Chancellor
was in love with a woman
who only paid her bills with
sugar daddies. Kingston was a
rich and famous former athlete
who was cheating on his
wife, and Jordan was tired of
all their complaints. She challenged
them to go online to
find the love they claimed they
really wanted.
For Victoria, pleasure from a
younger man was an excellent
idea; her long-time lover, Willy
Copeland, didn’t even know
what he couldn’t do anymore.
She adored Willy, but her body
needed what he couldn’t give
her.T
hough he hated Tracy,
Chancellor hated seeing her
flirt with other men more.
Didn’t he give her thousands
of dollars in their first weeks
together, supposedly for a
funeral for her mother? Yeah,
and Mom was alive and well.
Chancellor couldn’t decide if
he wanted to kill Tracy or love
her. Maybe a new woman was a
good idea.
As for Kingston, he lied to
his friends. He told them he
wasn’t married to his babymama,
Book cover of “Careful What You Click For” by Mary B. Morrison.
Monet (he was). He said
he might be interested in dating
a woman from the ATL (he
wasn’t).
No, what he really wanted
was an ATL man.
Picture this: if you were to
take your average decentlyplotted
thriller-mystery, plus
one romp-com, and smush
them into a hard-core porn
film until they mixed well,
“Careful What You Click For”
is pretty much what you’d get.
Author Mary B. Morrison
starts out with more mating
than murder, and it’s laid on so
thick that there’s your romp,
complete with humor, drama,
and characters that are rich,
gorgeous, and never time-constrained.
Beware that these
parts of this book are explicit.
Say it again: explicit.
But just before a reader gets
tired of so many bedrooms,
Morrison sneaks in the thriller
parts. Things take big turns for
the worst. Folks get comeuppances.
There’s a hidden reallife
warning here that is puton
a-sweater chilling. And, of
course, there’s more spice and
more sex with – believe it or not
– a heroine inside this story.
Start this book and be willing
to laugh with it. Be willing
to go along with its outrageousness.
Beware: explicit.
Race to the end, and you might
find “Careful What You Click
For” to be just right.
“Careful What You Click
For” by Mary B. Morrison
c.2020, Kensington
Dafina $26.00 / $35.00
Canada 304 pages
“Careful What You Click For” author Mary B. Morrison. Meagan O’Neal Meagan O Photography
Soca Queen Destra speaks candidly
By Nelson A. King
In celebration of Caribbean
American Heritage Month,
Trinidadian soca queen Destra
has been speaking candidly
about a number of issues,
telling the publication In The
Know about her humble beginnings,
her meteoric rise to
fame, her vocal appreciation of
her LGBTQIA-identifying fans
and the passing of the baton to
the newer generation of soca
stars and influencers.
With a career spanning over
20 years, Destra, whose full
name is Destra Garcia, remains
“one of the most recognizable,
respected and relevant faces in
the soca music scene,” according
to In The Know.
“Destra was always heralded
as ‘the standard’ in the soca
music scene; and, decades
later, nothing has changed,” it
said. “Whether it be hearing
her music blasting across the
speakers lined up by the street
vendors at San Fernando’s
High Street or watching her
annihilate the stage with her
signature explosive and adrenaline
packed performances at
the Soca Monarch during Carnival
season, Destra has always
been a hometown hero that
could not be escaped — for all
the best reasons.”
But In The Know said this
journey to becoming the best
wasn’t achieved easily.
It said the now 38-year-old
Caribbean music icon comes
from humble beginnings, stating
that her upbringing in
Laventille – overlooking capital
city Port-of-Spain, which she
described as “one of the ghettos”
in Trinidad and Tobago
– was one she would “never
change for the world.”