{"id":261,"date":"2007-08-01T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2020-05-09T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:39:00","slug":"breaking-jaie-by-s-renee-bess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Jaie by S. Renee Bess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Breaking-Jaie-S-Ren%C3%A9e-Bess-ebook\/dp\/B003XYE9J8\/ref=as_li_ss_il?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=sistontheshel-20&amp;linkId=598d4de486642a901471d02c46e115db&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B003XYE9J8&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=sistontheshel-20&amp;language=en_US\" width=\"246\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0<\/strong> Regal Crest Enterprises, May 2007<br \/>\n<strong>Genre: <\/strong> College Life, Romance<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong>\u00a0 212<br \/>\n<strong>Website:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneebess.com\">http:\/\/www.reneebess.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><p><strong class=\"rating\">Rating:<\/strong>&nbsp;<img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/blank_star.png\" alt=\"&#9734;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>S. Renee Bess mixes a fine weave of love, pain and higher education in <strong><em>BREAKING JAIE<\/em><\/strong>, the compelling novel that chronicles the romance of two very different graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>Jaie\u00a0Baxter is a Ph.D. candidate with an overly\u00a0confident attitude and a harrowing past. After witnessing her brother&#8217;s murder and living with a dysfunctional mother, she won&#8217;t allow anyone to get too close. That anguish, coupled with the heartache from the only woman Jaie has ever loved, proved only to propel her success as she grew into an exceptional student and a great writer &#8212; and top-notch player.<\/p>\n<p>Until she meets Terez\u00a0Overton one day in the English department office. Terez\u00a0didn&#8217;t grow up rough like Jaie, instead living in the suburbs and enjoying the comforts of middle-class life. She&#8217;s never met someone like Jaie; the thought of beginning a relationship with someone so unlike herself tells Terez\u00a0to proceed with caution, especially once she gets wind of Jaie&#8217;s\u00a0gigolo tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>S. Renee Bess put her foot in <em>Breaking Jaie<\/em>, with its concoction of love and suspense. There are plot twists thrown in to keep you guessing. Bess, the author of <em>Leave of Absence<\/em>, pleasantly surprised me with the contemporary tone of the book; the maturity of the characters will please both young and older readers. Bess has managed to do it again with this one, and manages to keeps me patiently waiting for the next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed August 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 Regal Crest Enterprises, May 2007 Genre: College Life, Romance Pages:\u00a0 212 Website:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.reneebess.com S. Renee Bess mixes a fine weave of love, pain and higher education in BREAKING JAIE, the compelling novel that chronicles the romance of two very different graduate students. Jaie\u00a0Baxter is a Ph.D. candidate with an overly\u00a0confident attitude and a harrowing [&hellip;]<\/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":[41,134,394,401,406],"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\/261"}],"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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7450,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/7450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}