Book Review: Iniquities by April Alisa Marquette
Posted by Tamela Quijas - Romance Author on February 24, 2012
The Cohort Trilogy has come to a close this week, and I can’t wait to tell you about the final novel in the series…Iniquities by April Alisa Marquette.
This beautiful author, who writes believable romances filled with the problems that we face in the world, loves to tell her readers that she loves a good cup of coffee.
April Alisa Marquette, a native New Yorker was delighted with the Literature and Creative Writing electives offered in college. Once a tutor for middle school and high school students, she shared with them her love for reading as well as writing. She is committed to creating detailed sagas that depict smart, sexy, savvy multi-cultural women.
She also writes non-fiction. She is the co-author of a series of inspirational books with a renowned New York evangelist. Relinquish and Reap is the name of the series. Autobiographical, seven purse-sized books are slated to tell the seventy-something Jessica Janna’s story. One for each decade of Jessica’s life, you will feel the love, as the authors offer tidbits on how to live peaceably amid life’s turbulence.
April also writes a weekly column online, discussing Ethnic Beauty. In her column she offers beauty advice, tips, and tricks. At the Ethnic Beauty site at BellaOnline.com there is also an interactive, visitor-friendly forum where discussions take place. It April’s endeavor to empower, as well as offer value to women of varying ethnicities.
INIQUITIES
The Conclusion-provocative and poignant…Our man, the beautiful, buff Beau is back In Iniquities, – Book III, The Cohort Trilogy closer, learn how Beauregard DeVeaux and the women in his life became forever friends.Take a peek into his closeted world; see his sexcapades, his lifestyle, his loves, and his longings. Join him on the turbulent ride that just might finally tear his family of friends apart…View men who are not what they seem, and women who are something else. Become privy to Beau’s joys as well as his sorrows –those things that could very well be considered…iniquities.
MY REVIEW:
Of all the characters that glorious fill the pages of April Alisa Marquette’s Cohort Trilogy, Beau DeVeaux has always been my favorite. Granted, he’s the only male amongst a bevy of women, but he has something to him that makes his very friendship and presence so valuable and endearing that I could help love him from the start.
Beau is one of those believable human beings that has suffered through the trials and tribulations of a life that started out terribly from the onset. Unloved by his drug addicted mother, molested by a member of society that people trust with their children, Beau is on a downward spiral of loneliness and an inward pain that rips at his soul.
When Beau’s world is surrounded by the stigma of foster homes, an aunt searches for him and brings him into a world that is filled with an emotion he’s never experienced…unconditional love.
Ms. Marquette’s Iniquities is a beautiful journey into Beau’s life. I adored how he reflected back on moments in his life, and the situations that molded and changed him. He’s the dearest of friends that holds the people in his life close to his heart and, as each of those people leave, they take a piece of his precious heart with them, but they are never forgotten.
Above all, he just has so much love to give…
Moving and pulling at the heartstrings, just as the other novels in this trilogy did, the reader journeys through Beau’s life from a front seat. As a fan of Ms. Marquette and Beau, I found Iniquities to be a stunning novel that truly spotlights Ms. Marquette’s skill, and filled with a superb Happy Ending for the most magical of the Cohorts.
5 stars.
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