Author: L.V. Lewis
Publishing Date: Oct 31, 2012
Publisher: Jungle Fever Press
Genre: Erotica, Romance
Summary: Keisha Beale, a street-wise Chicago south-sider two years out of DePaul University, is a quarter million dollars in start-up capital away from realizing her dream of owning a recording studio/record store. She takes the place of her more business-savvy partner in a meeting with Tristan White himself, the venture capitalist they've targeted to fund their business.
A bi-racial--African American and Brazilian--woman with a troubled past, Keisha has been so focused on her business pursuits that her love life has been non-existent. Tristan White is the devastatingly handsome, 32-year old CEO of White Enterprises, the firm he build using only the inheritance his mother left him to prove to his father he had the mette to do it alone. He comes from a long line of wealth, and he lives the life of a"one-percenter" on Chicago's Gold Coast. Tristan is accustomed to controlling every aspect of his life given into a world of white privilege.
50 Shades To The 2nd Power...
When Keisha and Tristan's worlds collide, sparks fly, and a fever is ignited in them both that they have never experienced before, it turns out that they each have secrets, but together, in the unorthodox arrangement Tristan proposes, they discover passions they never knew they had.
Review:
I had never read 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James but I knew that this book is sort of a parody/spoof to that book, but then again it is not, but I can guess, from the way that this book is written, what 50 Shades of Grey would've been about. I had read so many mixed reviews (mostly) from E.L. James that...I never bothered to read it due to over-popularity of that book.
I can guess both stories are about forbidden love. But in this book, the thing that stands out are the interracial romance between Keisha and Tristan, their class differences, and their business negotiation that they have for one another. Adding to that, Tristan introduces Keisha into a world of BDSM.
I really enjoyed this book, it gave me giggles and laugh out loud moments especially from Keisha's conscious figures that she calls her Fairy Hoochie Mama and her Triple G (Ghetto Good Girl) provide some comedic relief to what Keisha does- good or bad.
I cant really compare 50 Shades of Grey to 50 Shades of Jungle Fever because I had not read E.L. James's novels, but what I can say that Keisha and Tristan has some good chemistry, though how they met was pretty...fast and briefly erotic.
I can say that Keisha, being a bi-racial woman (black and Brazilian heritage), she wasn't whiny, pathetic or helpless, or fall-over-heels for Tristan, and she didn't back down. She kept her ground and spoke her mind when needed.... until she's around Tristan in their BDSM scenes over his house. Of course, both characters have either pasts and issues, but that doesn't overwhelm the story.
It had taken me a while to finish this book, but so glad that I did. I am thinking (maybe) into reading the second book in this series.
Conclusion: Those who love 50 Shades of Grey, humor, sexiness, and whole bunch of laugh out loud moemnts, this book is for you. The next book, Exit Strategy continues Keisha's and Tristan's story.
For those who had been frustrated with 50 Shades of Grey, or want something similar with characters with humor, chemistry, and wanting to be fanning yourself from those hot moments that are into this story, you should really try it.
L.V. Lewis is a good writer and for her novel, especially of a spoof of E.L. Jame's 50 Shades Series, did a pretty good job of doing so.
So, 50 Shades of Jungle Fever deserves a 4.5/5 for me.
