Black Girls Must be Magic

by: Jayne Allen
Published: Dec 20, 2019
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
272 Pages, Audio Book (HH:MM) 07:15
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Books in this Series:
Book #1: Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

This read was a rollercoaster of emotions (and much like the first in the series), and I don’t mean that in a good way.

Same trope. Same foolish mistakes. Same situationship. Same microagressions. Same friend group offering nothing to the story.

I’m invested in this series because I started it but (high-key) wish I wasn’t. Allen’s writing is all over the place and for me, the story doesn’t resonate. The decisions that Tabby makes, the way she talks, and the people she keeps around; it does nothing for me.

Marc – let’s not even go there. How has he made it to book #2?

Ms. Gretchen – Tabby leans so heavily on these older women (her grandmother Tabitha, in book #1) that it makes me question her friendships with Leila and Lexi.

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. Between Marc and her daddy, Tabitha wants to be loved by men so badly that she will overlook their bad behavior and obvious neglect of her feelings just to have a connection with them. I didn’t like how her relationship with her father was just glossed over and made whole because of her baby and the death of Granny Tab. No Sir, we would all need to sit down and talk to a professional if you skipped out on me, didn’t maintain a relationship, went off and remarried, had other children that you were there for and, now all of a sudden we’re ‘cool’ – no!

I’ll be reading the next in the series but, can’t say that I’m looking forward to it.

One-Word Summary: Nope