Book Review: Singsation

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Jacquelin Thomas
Class/Genre:   Romance
Warner, Jun 2001. $21.95, 338 pp.

In Villa Rica, Georgia, Deborah Anne Peterson knows God expects her to share her talent to sing like an angel. Thus, she especially enjoys her time at the Mountain Baptist Church, but desires more from her voice and her life. She wants to perform at packed stadiums with fans screaming for encores. This is quite a dream for someone who has never left the state.

Everything changes when famous rapper Triage Blue comes to the church and hears Deborah Anne sing. He loves what he hears and soon helps her obtain a deal as a background singer for popular R&B star Lavelle Roberts. However, the Roberts tour is a far cry from the small church of under a hundred praying patrons. Instead temptation in terms of parties sends her down a path away from God. At the same time her salvation may be in her love for Triage.

SINGSATION is an entertaining African-American Christian romance that will surprise readers with its lead characters' willingness to talk about sex and even share heated kisses. The story line is fun as Deborah Anne struggles between her roots and her new world. Though her success in a Guinness Book record time seems stretched, fans will still sing along with Jacquelin Thomas. The author provides an invigorating look at the music industry and a freshening up of the sub-genre by enhancing the Christian message with a more realistic world than usual.

Harriet Klausner

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