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This book is not for everyone. It will
shock you and at some point make you wished you could have slapped all the
characters.
I have always been a fan of Eric Jerome Dickey’s because of the way
he expresses a woman’s thoughts, intuitions, feelings and scorn accurately. Having read books
surrounding the theme of lesbianism this book helped me figure out some of the issues I was dealing with before I accepted my sexuality. I read between the lines. The
confusion of acceptance of one’s sexuality is always difficult.
Being in love with a woman and
not being certain how to express that love sometimes engage in behaviors that you
hope will bring about inevitability.
The story is narrated from the view
point of the male character. Between lovers is the story of a woman who left her fiance at the altar
because she was unsure of her sexuality, she returns seven years later and is still indecisive but this time she’s not sure if she wants to be with the woman
she left him for.
In order to truly “figure” herself out,
the protagonist Nicole prearranged a threesome between ex fiance, the narrator
and girlfriend, Ayanna.
As the story develops, the selfishness and self-absorption
of everything Nicole says and does take center stage, all her decisions were
designed to seek her self-interest. She controlled the narrator emotions; the
way he should feel about her and the way he should feel about her girlfriend. Nicole is egotistical for the very begin.
The story unfolds quickly and I can’t help but
be drawn into Nicole's struggle with her sexuality and the complexity of denying what you feel and what you know to appease others. But I'm not drawn into her self pity as she blamed the narrator for awakening her inner
lesbian because he paid a random stripper to dance with her on a vacation in Paris years ago. She blamed him for freeing her inhibitions. Yea, you are gay because a woman gyrated on you.
I loathed Nicole for using her sexuality
as an excuse to take advance of the people who loved her. I don’t believe in that whole fluid theory of sexuality. I felt really sorry for the narrator
and Nicole’s girlfriend; they were just puppets in Nicole’s party.
Somehow I identified with all the characters. In one chapter I find myself being compassionate then by the next chapter I hated them all; the stories plays on your emotions. There
is tension and competitiveness.
In some chapters I wished the narrator will
gets over his feelings for Nicole and move on with his life, come on it’s been
seven years, she left you at the altar isn’t that enough embarrassment? And the girlfriend; she was brainwashed and being taken advance of. I liked the headstrong professionalism of the girlfriend's character; she seems strong yet fragile. Everyone needed to leave each other alone because
hurting people to satisfy egotism is never the right thing to do.
No one can control human emotions and
sexuality.
As the fight for Nicole between the
narrator and the girlfriend intensified; the truth is revealed Nicole and her
girlfriend was not just "girlfriends or lovers", they were married!
This was one of the shocking and angrier moments
reading this book. Who the hell gets their wife to agree to something so contemptible! This is where sexual fluidity sets in I guess. Again,you
can’t manipulate people's feelings while you figure out yours. Aspect of this book is the very reason why lesbianism is not taken seriously and also why lesbian believe bisexual women will choose a man over them.
Luckily since
the idea brought confusion the threesome never happened and it’s a good thing.
The end of the book was a shocker just
when the entire story comes crushing down and everyone’s heart is broken, and hatred
and corruption was exploring; and as the race for Nicole quickly became a lose-lose
situation, the final test presented itself; Nicole is knocked down by car.
Both the narrator and Nicole’s
girlfriend stayed by her side through the ordeal, while at the hospital they
bonded and I thought finally they all came to their senses but there you saw who still wanted to preserve their relationship with Nicole.
In the end guess who won…if you guess
Nicole’s wife that’s right, that rainbow flag was raise high on the rooftop.
Like I said Between Lovers is not for
everyone but all in all it’s entertaining and a good read.
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