Cheril N. Clarke
Auteur de Intimate Chaos
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Photo by Duane Cramer
Séries
Œuvres de Cheril N. Clarke
Trip (The Sensual Portal Book 1) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1980-09-24
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Miami, Florida, USA
New Jersey, USA - Professions
- columnist
novelist - Relations
- Bey-Clarke, Monica (wife)
- Courte biographie
- A native of Toronto raised in Miami and now living in southern New Jersey, Cheril N. Clarke is the author of four novels, Foundations: A Novel of New Beginnings (2001), Different Trees from the Same Root (2003), Intimate Chaos (2005), and Tainted Destiny (2006) and one play, Intimate Chaos. She has been featured in Curve Magazine, the nation's best selling lesbian magazine, The Princeton Packet, Philadelphia Gay News (PGN), About.com, Out IN Jersey, EURweb, Burlington County Times, Phillyburbs.com, 247gay.com, Femmenoinre.net, Clik Magazine as well as Crain's New York Business newspaper, among others. Her opinion columns have been featured by the National Black Justice Coalition. Clarke has also published poems, short stories and reviews of hip-hop spoken word theater in various literary magazines. Her editorial work has appeared in About Magazine, Sistah2Sistah (ULOAH) online magazine, GayWired.com and on 247gay.com. Clarke was a keynote speaker at an African Asian Latina Lesbians United conference and has performed at events organized by African American Lesbians United for Societal Change. She is currently working on her fifth novel, a political drama.
Membres
Critiques
This was a very interesting erotic and suspenseful novella. This was short but meaty. Leela the main character was living the life on the edge...hence the title "The Edge of Bliss". I was living a fantasy vicariously through Leela until things became a little risqué. I found it hard to write this review without peppering it with spoilers.
I've read one other.novel by Cheril N. Clarke - "Losing Control" and I must say that her repertoire of stories is diverse. I look forward to another novel.… (plus d'informations)
I've read one other.novel by Cheril N. Clarke - "Losing Control" and I must say that her repertoire of stories is diverse. I look forward to another novel.… (plus d'informations)
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I was totally unhappy with this book. The writing was good and it as a book was good.. but the relationship between these women was not a good fit. The relationship didn't really make sense at times Confusing.....
Cheril N. Clarke, the lesbian novelist/playwright/producer has written a novel, “Losing Control” about human emotions interesting characters and their struggles. The eroticism is present, but takes a backseat to the emotional development of the characters and their relationships, deceptions, secrets, ambitions, heartbreaks, and triumphs.
The writing is clean and fulfilling in its flow from one scene to another while intertwining storylines and their effect on the political spin to Election Day for the main characters Brianna and Pamela. The story line kept my interest until the very last page!
This is my first time reading Ms. Clarke's work, and I will definitely make sure to check out her previous titles, “Intimate Chaos” also a stage play and “Tainted Destiny”.… (plus d'informations)
The writing is clean and fulfilling in its flow from one scene to another while intertwining storylines and their effect on the political spin to Election Day for the main characters Brianna and Pamela. The story line kept my interest until the very last page!
This is my first time reading Ms. Clarke's work, and I will definitely make sure to check out her previous titles, “Intimate Chaos” also a stage play and “Tainted Destiny”.… (plus d'informations)
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 50
- Popularité
- #316,248
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 8
When Brianna simmers down, she and Frank are able to resume their (platonic) friendship, which is how they had started things off and wanted to remain. Frank is saddened by their break up but realizes things are better this way. He also breaks things off with Yesenia, who was just a fling for him. Yesenia is enraged and vows revenge; a very precarious situation for the unsuspecting Brianna, on the brink of perhaps winning her first political office.
After their break up, both Frank and Brianna come to terms with their sexual inclinations; and each realizes that they desire and long for someone of their own gender. While this comes as a new and pretty shocking realization to Frank; for Brianna it is something she has been trying to supress for a long time. Each of them decides to pursue their natural feelings. For Brianna, this ends up in an affair with the married city treasurer, Pam. Pam, who has been married for years; has been supressing her own lesbian inclinations which has resulted in an unhappy marriage. This affair seems destined for disaster, especially since Yesenia has turned into a spy, albeit an inept one, for Brianna's opposition in the city council race.
Ultimately Pam ends up pregnant after years of infertility and feels compelled to stay with her husband, Eric. Eric becomes unhinged when he finds out about Pam's lesbian affair and for the first time becomes abusive to Pam. He finally accepts, mostly, that the baby is his and is determined to stay with Pam. Pam finally decides she can't handle the marriage any longer and files for divorce. Brianna, who in the meantime has won the election; has been heartbroken at break up with Pam and all the ensuing drama while Pam tried to work things out with her husband. Pam and Brianna decide to give things another try.
The story became interesting and while the writing was not outstanding, it was often good enough. At times, however, it became more disjointed and mediocre. The characters were never fully fleshed out and brought to life so that you could develop empathy for them. The story tended to jump around and some of the storylines which got a good start were seemingly deadended. The end of the novel was very disappointing. It was really just a summary or plotline, and ended up literally just listing what became of some of the key players; much like you'd see at the end of a movie with alot of characters, etc. It seemed like the author suddenly did not to want to write any more of the novel and simply raced to wrap things up, which completely killed the flow of the story and the book.… (plus d'informations)