{"id":1985,"date":"2011-02-14T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/blog\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2020-05-08T23:41:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T03:41:38","slug":"taking-a-chance-at-love-by-kesha-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Chance at Love by Kesha Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 <\/strong>Pride Books, Oct. 2010
\nGenre(s):\u00a0 <\/strong>Romance, Drama
\nPages:<\/strong> 216
\nWebsite: \u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.keshapride.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong> \"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\" <\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAren’t doctors supposed to be refined? Classy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Drs. Tori Becker and Kenya Jackson are both those things, but they are also full of romantic frenzy as seen in Kesha Pride\u2019s debut novel, TAKING A CHANCE AT LOVE<\/em><\/strong>, a black lesbian-Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em> tinged love story.<\/p>\n

At 29, Tori has her to-do list covered. Graduate medical school. Finish residency. Become a partner in a medical practice. The partnership she accepts relocates her from Houston to Atlanta, and into a swanky new condo, where she runs into a gorgeous woman in her elevator. At her first day of work, that beauty turns out to be Kenya, who has to be Tori\u2019s trainee for the next three months.<\/p>\n

That makes things awkward, but they know to keep a level of strict professionalism. It\u2019s hard, though, when Kenya is extremely attracted to how smart, sexy and intellectual Tori is. Kenya has had her share of liaisons \u2013 a long term and a few NSAs* \u2013 but can envision settling down with Tori.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tori and Kenya console themselves with other women, and that\u2019s where the commotion comes in. Jealous lovers, ex-girlfriend entanglements, and criminal mayhem threaten what they don\u2019t \u201cofficially\u201d have.\u00a0 And the more they date, the more they know true love is right in front of them; they\u2019re just afraid of the repercussions if their fraternization is found out.<\/p>\n

Taking a Chance at Love<\/em> is a good, quick read. There are a couple things you\u2019ll shake your head at, but other than that, the drama is plentiful. I enjoyed the medical setting, which Pride writes with realism. Every workplace has its own excitement, and Tori and Kenya\u2019s Atlanta General Hospital\u00a0is no different.<\/p>\n

* no strings attached<\/em><\/p>\n

Reviewed February 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 Pride Books, Oct. 2010 Genre(s):\u00a0 Romance, Drama Pages: 216 Website: \u00a0http:\/\/www.keshapride.com \u201cAren’t doctors supposed to be refined? Classy?\u201d Drs. Tori Becker and Kenya Jackson are both those things, but they are also full of romantic frenzy as seen in Kesha Pride\u2019s debut novel, TAKING A CHANCE AT LOVE, a black lesbian-Grey\u2019s Anatomy tinged love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,164,169,275,401,531],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7337,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/7337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}