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The Blackbirds

By: Eric Jerome Dickey
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
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New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey, whose characters The Atlantic calls "bold, smart women oozing sexuality and vulnerability" introduces an unbreakable quartet of friends looking for love in his next delectable romance.

They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Browne, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Ericka Stockwell are four best friends who are closer than sisters, and will go to the ends of the earth for one another. Yet even their deep bond can’t heal all wounds from their individual pasts, as the collegiate and post-collegiate women struggle with their own demons, drama, and desires.

Trying to forget her cheating ex-fiancé, Kwanzaa becomes entangled with a wicked one-night stand—a man who turns out to be one in five million. Indigo is in an endless on-again, off-again relationship with her footballer boyfriend, and in her time between dysfunctional relationships she purses other naughty desires. Destiny, readjusting to normal life, struggles to control her own anger after avenging a deep wrong landed her in juvi, while at the same time trying to have her first real relationship—one she has initiated using an alias to hide her past from her lover. Divorced Ericka is in remission from cancer and trying to deal with two decades of animosity with her radical mother, while keeping the desperate crush she has always had on Destiny’s father a secret... a passion with an older man that just may be reciprocated.

As the women try to overcome— or give into— their impulses, they find not only themselves tested, but the one thing they always considered indestructible: their friendship.

©2016 Eric Jerome Dickey (P)2016 Random House Audio
African American Contemporary Contemporary Romance Literature & Fiction Romance
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Critic reviews

“An epic story about an epic quartet [of friends].”—Essence

“In this sensual tale, words stoke the body and the imagination. With prose that is both witty and current, Dickey chronicles the pothole-filled journey four modern black women take to find love.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Dickey...once again stirs a juicy mix of steamy sexuality with soap-opera drama...fans will be pleased to recognize characters from the author's previous novels.”—Library Journal

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Beautiful story of friendship, love and sisterhood

Loved this story, felt so genuine and heartfelt like I was reading a true life story. An inspirational story about a sisterhood of women and all the trials and tribulations that they face in love, careers, family, friendship and so much more as modern day black women. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I listened to it everyday until I finished it. I think it's my new favourite one out of all Jerome Dickey's books!! Such a beautifully written story!!

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Narrator was awful

The narrator is absolutely awful, her voice makes every sentence sound like a question. Her Nigerian accent sounded more Zimbabwean but by any standards was below par.
Once I got comfortable with the uncomfortable, the story was alright. Definitely not up to EJD standards books like chasing destiny, girlfriends, or any of the other wonderful dickey books i've read.
I chose this book out of the newer EJD books because I wanted hours of entertainment, once I heard the narrator though I wished I'd chosen different. But I stuck with it!

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Definitely recommend

The beginning was a little slow but once into the book i couldn't stop, feel like each character had their own issues and secrets they had to deal with but the love of women in a sisterhood will keep you strong. Brilliant read looking forward to the next book

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