Here are some reviews about the 4-book HOLLINGTON HOMECOMING SERIES that readers have been nice enough to post on-line. It’s not too late to get the series. My copies just arrived in the mail yesterday, and since I am now deadline free, I am going to spend the next week reading about these 8 love-starved friends in Atlanta for their 10-year college reunion…
We are introduced to 4 men and 4 women with a connection that spans a decade and that connection is Hollington College the class of 2009. What these individuals don’t know is that their reunion is going to bring some feelings and some closure to parts of their lives that they never thought would come to.
RSVP WITH LOVE (SANDRA KITT RATING 5)
Chloe Jackson was the girl who no one knew in college because she prefers it like that she was always about getting her education and keeping to herself. She graduated as the class valedictorian and now ten years later, she owns her own event planning business and she has been handpicked to organize their ten-year reunion. However, there was one person she would never forget her classmate Kelvin Slayton.
Kevin Slayton is the owner of a large enterprise which consists of multiple restaurants and clubs and when she finds herself being position to persuade him to let her use the club to host the reunion she finds herself in a relationship that throws her off her balance. Kevin has been feeling like there is something in his life that has been missing and he realizes it when he meets Chloe Jackson. However, when Chloe past causes her to retreat she puts Kevin in the defense to get the women he loves back in his life.
Chloe was the girl no one in college knew but Kevin takes notice of her right away and finds it a mission of his life to get what got away from him in college because he didn’t pay attention.
TEACH ME TONIGHT (JACQUELINE THOMAS RATING 4)
Tamara Hodges never forgot her best friend and math tutor in college Micah Ross but when words are exchanged between her and some of her classmates and the situation from her past arises she finds herself passing judgment on Micah before she could really ask him questions. Micah had found the women he loved in Tamara but when she ends their relationship after rumors, he finds himself hurt and devastated never getting to express his love for her. Now ten years later he is out for revenge or so he thinks. Tamara now writes for a local Atlanta paper and he is a major producer. When Tamara gets the call that she has been offered the interview of a lifetime and the opportunity to apologize to her friend she, jumps at it but never with realization that the situation was actually a poly but the poly went for bust when the two realize that their feelings were deeper than they thought. Micah is the record producer and has found a way to get back at Tamara for the hurt that she had caused him. The revenge was going to come at the cost of her job but after thinking back to the fourteen years of friendship he finds himself falling all over in love with her but not before some more misunderstandings and secrets tear them apart.
PASSION OVERTIME (PAMELA YAYE RATING 4.5)
Kyra Dixon wasn’t sure she could ever forget her college sweetheart especially since she saw him every Sunday when his team played and he was a reminder of how life didn’t always work in one’s favor. They were engaged to get married until the Majors stepped in and took him away. Now that their college is in need of a football coach and Terrance Franklin her ex-fiancé is free to coach she finds herself spending more time then she would ever want to trying to recruit him.
Terrance Franklin has come to realize that he’s ready to settle down it has taken him ten years to figure this out but only one woman has ever made him think long term in the general idea of marriage and kids with the dog to complete it. However this was the woman who he walked away from to go after his fame and glory but now that they have been forced back together he’s determine to make things right.
Kyra and Terrance have their difficulties where the trust has to be built again but the passion brewing isn’t going to be so easy to make go away.
TENDER TO HIS TOUCH (ADRIANNE BYRD RATING 4)
Two broken marriages and a weekend of fun can turn into a tremendous situation or at least that what it became for Lucius & Beverly. Lucius was a workaholic while Beverly used work to get over all that has gone wrong in her life so when these two bumps heads before their college reunion they find their selves in a no strings attached weekend of fun till Lucius realizes that he’s not happy being apart from her. Beverly isn’t so excited about a relationship she has failed at one and life for her is hard but with a lot of persuasion and her friends throwing her out to dry, she realizes that moping won’t help.
Lucius is delight with the way his relationship is growing with Beverly but his life couldn’t have taken an even crazy turn with the budding relationship on shells and his ex-wife throwing things at him that has him dodging bullets on all sides. However, he will do anything to keep Beverly in his life but will it push her away?
Overall, the series was fun and has me on edge to see what my ten-year anniversary will be like. Kudos to Adrianne, Jacqueline, Pamela, and Sandra for a job well done.
JAMES D. STEWART WRITES:
PASSION OVERTIME is truly a romance novel that displays how the bond of two people gets stronger and deeper overtime. Terrance and Kyra, the two main characters, were made for each other. Though Kyra has been heartbroken, she can’t deny the love that she feels for Terrance because her body will not allow her. Sometimes all true love needs to be rekindled is a reminder. For Kyra and Terrance, that reminder is the atmosphere of their alma mater. Love never dies when it is kept in your heart and never meant to be separated.
ROBIE POPE, on PASSION OVERTIME:
I can really relate to Kyra. She was so hurt by Terrence. That was only a crack in her life. She was afraid to love freely. Not only did the young lover betray her but so did her father. She was Daddy’s little girl but that was not enough to keep him faithful to her and her mother. She is afraid that if she lets him back into her life she’ll be accepting a life she doesn’t deserve.
It took a lot for Terrence to come back. He was young and listening to other people tell him how to live. Now he is a man who wants a second chance at life. He now has to realize that you can change your life but you must still pay for your mistakes.
When Kyra began to wake up she really woke up. She has forgiven her father, her lover and even herself. Now she can live fully.
I have read two other books that you have written. Keep writing and I will keep reading. God has blessed you with a talent.
4 0ut of 5 books from Tenecia at URBAN REVIEWS
NFL great Terrence Franklin is back at his alma mater, Hollington College. He has been offered the head football coaching position, now that he has retired from the NFL. Everyone is ecstatic about him being back and bending over backwards to make his stay enjoyable. All except the one person he came back to see, Kyra Dixon. Kyra is Terrence’s one true love, although it has taken him 10 years to realize what a mistake he made breaking up with her. He is now back to make things right. PR director of Hollington College and Terrence’s ex-fiancé, Kyra Dixon is stuck with the task of getting Terrence to agree to become the head coach. Kyra is all business because she is not about to get involved with Terrence again, no matter how sexy and charming he is.
PASSION OVERTIME is a great read by Pamela Yaye. Lots of people will be able to relate to and reminisce about their college days. Yaye does a good job of giving background information that ties the plot together. Because this is part of a series written by several different authors, there are several storylines happening simultaneously. Yaye does a great job keeping them all straight. Passion Overtime is a nostalgic read.
Tangela Howard has a new outlook on life. Since coming back from Mexico, she is 80 pounds lighter, more confident, and knows what she wants out of life. She also knows what she doesn’t want and that would be her ex-fiance Warrick Carver! Tangela and Warrick dated for 7 years, and Warrick was her everything. She moved in with him, cooked for him, and cleaned for him. After they were engaged and Tangela realized that Warrick was not ready to get married, she left and went to Mexico for 2 years. Now that she is back, she has a new agenda. She wants a husband and children, but not with Warrick. After seeing Tangela, Warrick realizes that his life is nothing without her. He also realizes that he is going to have to make the hardest sell he has ever made if he wants Tangela back in his life permanently.