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Book: Beg for It by Minx Malone (2009)
Dec. 6th, 2012 08:10 pmThis was damn near everything that I needed it to be. The problem was that it was too short. Beg for It had everything it needed to be a full length novel, if the author were interested in investing a little more time on plot development. A huge chunk of the e-book is all sex, hot sex, but all sex. Still, I thought Malone did a good job of incorporating plenty of heart. Because of the length the novel felt a little rushed in throwing our hero and heroine together. They've got plenty of back history but we don't really get to experience too much of it because of the novella's brevity.
Mya Taylor is in love with her best friend, Milo Hamilton. A hastily made bet on who will get the new account at the ad agency they work for leads to a long, hot weekend during which they admit to wanting more than to be just best buddies. Only, of course, a random willowy, blonde shows up at the door and our short, dark, curvy heroine gets the wrong idea and goes home to pout. What little is left of the novella is spent getting these too wacky kids back together (which turns out to be surprisingly painless).
Malone is a strong writer, and unlike much of the other offerings in this category that I've read of late, this was a well-written, solidly edited short. There were some things that I didn't care for, like some of the hero's more cave man actions and the heroine's limp pining, but overall it was a good read. The other thing that I didn't like was the oblique to non-existent references to our heroine's ethnicity. She's described as having loads of curls and with skin from caramel to cinnamon. Now, there's a lot of distance between caramel and cinnamon. I, for one, like the cinnamon reference better. The cover is the only absolute description of the heroine as African-American.
I've been reading a lot of self-published Amazon novellas with interracial couples at the heart. Most of them are throw always, but the ones that I really do like highlight the differences between the couples. Sadly, for all that it's better written than most of them, Malone's story lacks that component.
Mya Taylor is in love with her best friend, Milo Hamilton. A hastily made bet on who will get the new account at the ad agency they work for leads to a long, hot weekend during which they admit to wanting more than to be just best buddies. Only, of course, a random willowy, blonde shows up at the door and our short, dark, curvy heroine gets the wrong idea and goes home to pout. What little is left of the novella is spent getting these too wacky kids back together (which turns out to be surprisingly painless).
Malone is a strong writer, and unlike much of the other offerings in this category that I've read of late, this was a well-written, solidly edited short. There were some things that I didn't care for, like some of the hero's more cave man actions and the heroine's limp pining, but overall it was a good read. The other thing that I didn't like was the oblique to non-existent references to our heroine's ethnicity. She's described as having loads of curls and with skin from caramel to cinnamon. Now, there's a lot of distance between caramel and cinnamon. I, for one, like the cinnamon reference better. The cover is the only absolute description of the heroine as African-American.
I've been reading a lot of self-published Amazon novellas with interracial couples at the heart. Most of them are throw always, but the ones that I really do like highlight the differences between the couples. Sadly, for all that it's better written than most of them, Malone's story lacks that component.
