Book Reviews & Giveaway: Searching for Tina Turner
Author: Jacqueline E. Luckett
Jaqueline Luckett’s novel promises the Adam and Eve rendition of marital love - Lena has it all. As long as she stays under her very successful husband, Randall’s radar and control. Lena has raised two children, Kendrick and Camille, and lives in total luxury. For a black couple on the rise, she has nothing to complain about. So why does she feel like a trophy wife?
Randall, the first Black CEO of TIDA, an international company, has to work hard, harder and hardest to make the grade in a white man’s company. Along the way, he has forgotten his promise to Lena, a promising photographer who has wanted to open her own studio and gallery for years - and keeps demanding that she put it off to help him rise in the company. She complies, until finally there is nothing left in her almost empty nest, except luxury and emptiness.
Somewhere along the line, 54 year old Lena has lost herself. She turns to the book, “I, Tina” by Tina Turner as she contemplates leaving Randall. She wants to be like Tina, making it on her own.
This novel begins with genuine truth and emotional gravity, but somewhere it veers into another direction. When Lena leaves Randall and travels to France to see Tina Turner in concert, she meets Harmon, and falls in love. They have an affair while waiting for the concert date to approach and travel with a friend and her ‘companion” all over France. It turns a tad bit stereotypical when Lena’s beloved mother, Lucy, dies. Randall wants her back. And she walks away from Randall and Harmon both.
The small disappointments in this book are small enough to still make it a good and interesting novel, with a valuable theme. Great try, and I think this novelist will go far with a second and third novel to come. Very good read, nicely written, good themes, but not totally compelling to this reviewer.
Ratings are based on a 5-star scale
Plot: 3.5
Characters: 4
Presentation: 4
Overall: 3.5
Book Review by Broad "A" - Ava
Searching for Tina Turner
is available for purchase at Amazon.com for $16.49.Thank you to the Hachette Book Group for providing this title for our book review as well as this giveaway. We were in no way paid or compensated for our opinions.
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