The Vow.The Vow by Denene Millner, Angela Burt-Murray  This article relies largely or entirely upon a .Please help [ improve this article] by introducing appropriate of additional sources. and Mitzi Miller Amistad/HarperCollins, November 2005 $23.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-060-76227-6 The Vow kicks off at a wedding on New Year's Eve, where three thirty-something sistahs in Los Angeles--you guessed it--make a vow that they will all be married to the man of their dreams within one year. These ambitious divas, however, are not content to grab the first man with a pulse who crosses their paths; each has something, or someone, very specific in mind. Of course, their paths to the altar are filled with more twists and turns than a juicy soap opera soap opera Broadcast serial drama, characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, tangled interpersonal situations, and a melodramatic or sentimental style. . The competition in cutthroat L.A. is fierce, and each woman has to step up her game to get what she wants. Along their journey, feelings get hurt, family issues intervene and their solid-as-a-rock friendships are put to the test. Putting their book a step above most chick lit "Chick lit" is a term used to denote genre fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women in their twenties and thirties. The genre's creation was spurred on, if not exactly created, by Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole diaries which inspired Adele , the authors present well-rounded characters, who, despite their shallowness (name-dropping more designer labels than most rap songs), are likeable like·a·ble adj. Variant of likable. Adj. 1. likeable - (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" likable, appealing, sympathetic women readers will root for. It comes as no surprise that the three coauthors were once coworkers and collaborated on last year's nonfiction paperback The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life (Penguin). Burt-Murray is the new editor-in-chief of Essence magazine. Their obvious chemistry easily translates into creating this fun, humorous, and guilty pleasure of a read. --Reviewed by Melissa Ewe), Johnson Melissa Ewey Johnson is a writer and editor in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . |
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