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Money Can't Buy Love

by Connie Briscoe
Grand Central. Jun. 2011. c.304p. ISBN 9780446534840. $24.99. F
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Briscoe (Sisters & Lovers; Sisters & Husbands) returns with the rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of Lenora Stone, a magazine photographer who is barely scraping by financially. Her condo is tiny, bills are unpaid, and her man, Gerald, doesn't want to commit. Compounding these problems are her demanding boss, Dawna, and a smoldering lust for Ray, the hot young landscaper she is assigned to photograph for a feature story. When Lenora wins $5 million in the Maryland lottery, the world is at her fingertips. She can afford to buy a luxury car, a mansion, and open her own studio. Predictably, the money goes fast, and Lenora is caught in a tryst with landscaper Ray. It's a thin plot with a rushed ending, but indulgent readers will likely empathize with the hapless Lenora.
VERDICT Fans of Briscoe, frothy chick lit, and African American pop fiction will enjoy this as a quick summer read.
Reviewed by Sally Harrison, Ocean Cty. Lib., Waretown, NJ , Jun 01, 2011
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