The Black Birds
By
Eric Jerome Dickey
Review:
Hello everyone,
If you consistently read my blog reviews, you know that there is always a story behind my choice for the book of the month.As you know I subscribe to audio-books, but for my bloggers who like myself feel the price of an audio book membership is not budget friendly, I will like to inform you that I was able to get this novel via my local library. My reasoning for keeping my audio books membership is because my local library does not have a large selection of fiction literature available to me; which leads me to my story. I was once again browsing the library selection and I passed this book thinking to myself Eric's books are good but they start off slow and it takes too long to connect with the characters. At the time, 4 people were ahead of me and I said ok I will just place the book on hold and if I am able to read the novel before the summer then it will be a good read. Low and behold, I received a message last week that I was ready for my download. I was nervous although no need to be as I did not pay for the novel but I was nervous that people did not like the book as to why I received it so quickly. People! Eric Jerome Dickey has done it! I must say that this is one of the best books that I have read from Mr. Dickey. I must warn you, this book is extremely vulgar and it is definitely for grown women; the characters are spicy, fierce, and engaging. I listened to the audio version of this book at work and was seriously engaged; honestly I could not stop listening and the listening did not just stop at work once I was firmly seated in my car I continued listening on my drive home. It was like watching TV while driving and I must say it kept me calm enough to not yell at drivers who consistently cut me off and literally drive 20 miles per hour once in front of me. Overall, I have no complaints, this novel is a good read even if you choose not to listen to the audio version. The Black Birds is definitely one of my best summer novels.
