{"id":6094,"date":"2014-04-24T11:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2020-05-03T22:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T02:27:25","slug":"sweat-chapter-one-a-lesbian-soap-opera-by-lezintellect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=6094","title":{"rendered":"Sweat: Chapter One (A Lesbian Soap Opera) by LezIntellect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sweatlezintellect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7093 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sweatlezintellect-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sweatlezintellect-183x300.jpg 183w, http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sweatlezintellect.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher\/Date: <\/strong>Amazon Digital Services, Inc., Feb. 2014<br \/>\n<strong>Genre(s): <\/strong>Romance, Drama<br \/>\n<strong>Pages: <\/strong>22 (e-book short)<br \/>\n<strong>Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/diaryofablacklesbian.blogspot.com<\/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=\"3.5\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"3.5\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"3.5\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/half_star.png\" alt=\"&frac12;\" title=\"3.5\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/blank_star.png\" alt=\"&#9734;\" title=\"3.5\/5\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot:<\/strong> <em><strong>SWEAT: CHAPTER ONE<\/strong><\/em> introduces twins Odessa, a womanizing, prodigal daughter of sorts and Olivia, the responsible older sister (by two minutes) who&#8217;s been running their father&#8217;s successful hair care empire while Odessa is away in the Big Apple. She&#8217;s returned home to her family&#8217;s sprawling home and decides as usual she wants what she wants without a thought to what&#8217;s been happening while she&#8217;s gone. If she had only made a phone call or two, she would have discovered that Olivia has been taking care of things just fine in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good:<\/strong> Author LezIntellect makes it clear this first installment of <em>Sweat<\/em> is just the beginning. She has way more in mind for her characters; she promises Chapter Two will bring someone &#8220;dynamic.&#8221; She also knows a thing or two about how to write a descriptive setting and how to give her characters great backstories (even if we don&#8217;t know everything just yet), which makes me captived with Odessa and Olivia. And I love the cover artwork.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Not-So-Good:<\/strong> <em>Sweat<\/em>&#8216;s sentence structures can be a little redundant, but I have a (kind of) bigger issue. The thing about soap operas: every time you get closer to the truth, in comes a commercial. That&#8217;s how I felt when I got to the end of <em>Sweat<\/em>. Waiting chapter by chapter is going to be the death of me. *cue death music* *cut to commercial*<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bottom Line:<\/strong> I have to know what happens next. I guess there&#8217;s a reason LezIntellect calls it <em>Sweat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed April 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher\/Date: Amazon Digital Services, Inc., Feb. 2014 Genre(s): Romance, Drama Pages: 22 (e-book short) Website: http:\/\/diaryofablacklesbian.blogspot.com The Plot: SWEAT: CHAPTER ONE introduces twins Odessa, a womanizing, prodigal daughter of sorts and Olivia, the responsible older sister (by two minutes) who&#8217;s been running their father&#8217;s successful hair care empire while Odessa is away in the Big [&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":"NEW SOTS REVIEW:  Sweat: Chapter One (A Lesbian Soap Opera) by LezIntellect  @lezintellect"},"categories":[4],"tags":[117,169,295,401,451],"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\/6094"}],"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=6094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}