Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

. . . and African American women do? Really. For that comment alone, I will avoid this writer. No need to disrespect African American women or American women in general to try to uplift your "Carribean sister." Writer also made it clear that the heroine, in addition to not being African American, or even really American except maybe by birth, was barely black. Mom was a white female Jamaican Harvard lawyer and dad was only a part black and part (East) Indian physicist. Because, hey, no African Americans could possibly be so brilliant or make such a brilliant, beautiful child. Oh, and she resented the "one drop" of black blood "rule" that made her have to identify as black and deny her white, Indian, Jamaican, Trinidadian, Carribean sides. Cry me a river. I'm pretty sure that the majority of purchasers of the BWWM genre are proud, African American women, so I would advise not insulting your main audience. BTW no "rule" requires anyone to deny their heritage. That is a personal choice or a personal failing. And that "rule" has been legally obsolete for generations. Sounds like our heroine has the "good hair" gene though. I'm so tired of writers with so called black heroines, then they have to emphasize that they are everything else other than black, in this case probably a minimum of 75% NOT BLACK. The heroine's dad was only part black so he could have had as little as 2 "drops" black blood, such that he passed on maybe 1 drop of black blood to her. With so many other races, ethnicities, and countries, there were no relatives brave enough to take her in. Yeah right. Her parents popped out 6 kids. I doubt they came from families who bred in low numbers. At least the cowardly, deadbeat relatives were not African Americans or Americans at all. This is a 3🌟 read, but the racial disparagement merited a 2🌟 deduction as it ruined the story for me.