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Mind Your Own Business (2011)

by Lutishia Lovely(Favorite Author)

4.48 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0758265794 (ISBN13: 9780758265791)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Dafina

review 1: Amazon Headline:1 Thessalonians 4;11 (NLT) Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you beforeThis book was rich with characters, situations and some drama; let’s take a look at the players. First the patriarchs of the Livingston dynasty are twins Adam and Ace. Their dynasty is built on soul food restaurants, and cooking shows, that the Livingston children and other family members run.First up is Bianca, the family thinks her engagement and wedding to Cooper is a done deal both the families are expecting it. But Bianca has other plans, one is the fact the she wants a career in the family dynasty; she is vying for the same spot as her brother. Is A Taste of Soul a man’s world or can Bianca come ... moreup with a proposal which shows the boardroom what she’s made of?Jefferson’s aspirations of heading the new location in California are daunted by his sister. But Bianca is the least of Jefferson’s trouble. His girlfriend Keisha has more secrets than Jefferson can handle right now and one of them could mean the end of the Livingston dynasty. Is time on Jefferson side or will love blind him to a fault?Keisha wants nothing more than to please the two men in her life and get a piece of the pie for herself. But in this world she is finding out that it’s not this and that but this OR that, and choosing for Keisha isn’t really a choice at all.The book opens with Ace calling a family meeting and letting everyone know that someone is stealing corporate funds. The reader finds out early who the thief is but it’s enough twist and turns in this book to keep the suspense seeker very happy. Mind Your Own Business looks at meddling folks and what happens when some people attend to the affairs of others instead of their own. Wonderful book
review 2: Once more Ms. Lovely has created a drama-packed, well-plotted page turner. I enjoyed this book very much, even though it seemed slightly less true-to-life than the first book. Most prominent of these was that the Livingstons are depicted as having much more wealth (holdings in the "tens of millions," million-dollar gifts given to the sons of the family when they turn 30), than would seem plausible for people who simply own a few soul food restaurants all located in one city (with a recent branch-out on the West Coast, plus a recent, highly successful foray into selling a meat cooker, neither of which has been in existence long enough to bring in all those millions). I would expect them to live well, but wealth of the magnitude described, in the $50 million range, is more in keeping with owners of a nationwide chain, like the Krocs of McDonalds; or product, like the Johnson Publishing Company of Chicago. Hey, can I get the name of their investment counselor?It also struck me as improbable to have Keisha down in the islands just days after she decided to go. You can no longer leave the United States to go to any other country without a passport, which wasn't mentioned. What *was* mentioned was this character's meager means and limited experiences, that she'd barely been out of the 'hood, and how impressed she was with the way the Livingstons lived...not exactly the portrait of someone who'd be likely to have a passport handy for herself and for her children (who would each need one as well).I also found myself a little confused, having thought that Jefferson and Bianca were based in L.A. Maybe I missed something, but I don't remember them being mentioned in the first book until the very end. This would seem odd if Jefferson was in Atlanta working for the family business all along (I believe Bianca at least was in Europe). Those not-so-minor points aside, I'm enjoying this story and definitely plan on reading the next installment in this well-put-together series--and I'm usually not one to read series!--and hope the unbelievability factor is toned down. I do recommend it for those who like fast-moving, well-plotted stories.P.S. I was suspicious about Divine from the very beginning, because I kept thinking of the late celebrity with that name. I wonder if that was a little joke on the author's part? less

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