Series: West End
by Author Pearl Cleage
Babylon Sisters (2006)
(originally published at http://nomadreader.blogspot.com)The backstory: Babylon Sisters is the second novel in Pearl Cleage's West End series. Although this book isn't a sequel to Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, the main characters from Some Things do pop up a few times here, which will delig...
Baby Brother's Blues (2007)
This book tried to cover so many topics: inner-city violence, politics, single parenthood, girls-who-have-to-turn-to-stripping-to-survive, renegades, men-on-the-DL, light-skinned-blacks-who-take-advantage-of-the-race, corrupt cops. It was a lot - probably too much.I couldn't get into the whole pa...
Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do (2009)
This story is about Regina Burns and how she turned her life around after getting hooked on drugs and almost losing her mother’s house. Cleage didn’t dwell much on the drug abuse, but it was the reason that Regina found herself in the predicament she did. There are other themes as well, such as t...
Dance (2014)
I went into this book A) because of beautiful cover and B) because of intriguing blurb. Easy to say I stayed with it for B reason. The characters are all well developed and rounded individuals. The story is a love at first sight between two men of the same profession and their hardships both in t...