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    Holy Ghost Corner
    Holy Ghost Corner
    Holy Ghost Corner
    Audiobook10 hours

    Holy Ghost Corner

    Written by Michele Andrea Bowen

    Narrated by Saidah Arrika Ekulona

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Essence #1 best-selling author Michele Andrea Bowen pens saucy African-American stories with Christian themes. Holy Ghost Corner is an inspiring story about one woman's hopes for a blessed future with the right man as she struggles with her own religious principles. Theresa Hopson is the successful owner of one of the hottest new stores in Durham, North Carolina: Miss Thang's Holy Ghost Corner and Church Women's Boutique. But success isn't enough without someone to share it with. Theresa needs a God-fearing, intelligent, hard-working and loving man. Unfortunately, the pickings are slim. Reverend Parvell Sykes is the assistant pastor at Theresa's church, but behind his public persona, he's greedy and conniving. The only other single, successful man in town is attractive Lamont Green, who hasn't seen the inside of a church in years. But God works in mysterious ways, and Theresa must trust Him in order to find true happiness. Bowen's Church Folk (F0081) is also available from Recorded Books.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 24, 2008
    ISBN9781449800994
    Holy Ghost Corner

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    • 2/5
      While on a random shopping trip this book caught my eye and I decided to give it a try since it is not my "norm." My initial thought was that this book would be a quick read since I'm kind of familiar with the subject manner. To say that this book was tedious to work through is an understatement.In Holy Ghost Corner, we meet a lot of flamboyant church folk. The story is centered around Teresa Hopson the owner of, Miss Thang's Holy Ghost Corner and Church Woman's Boutique, and her love interest Lamont Green a real estate developer. Teresa Hopson has a painful breakup with the skirt chasing Rev. Parvell Sykes leaving her lonely and doubting God about sending her a husband. Lamont Green is so ambitious and business minded that he does not have time for a serious relationship. In the background there is a shady business deal that is developing that involves all the good church folk. Lamont wants to rebuild old black neighborhood of Cashmere Estates but there is stiff opposition that has infiltrated the church. There are also our supporting characters that like the reformed prostitute, Baby Doll, and her man, Mr. Lacy, who is blind. Queen Esther who works for Teresa and happens to be Lamont's aunt is your typical scripture quoting,anointing oil rubbing,church lady. The characters and entire story was so cliche that it was just got to a point where I wanted to throw this book out of a window. The overused church folk stereotypes were exhausting.I did like the fact that Bowen included so many positive, driven African-American women in her story. Bowen developed successful African-American women entrepreneurs, real estate brokers, and architects as characters. We need to see more of these characters in urban/Christian fiction. The church scene that Bowen included where souls were saved was quite moving. She really conveyed the redemptive work of Christ in a way that it came right off the page and touched your heart. Ultimately, Holy Ghost Corner related how we must trust God in every part of our life.
    • 2/5
      I checked out the audio version of this novel at my local library. It was very frustrating to follow and preachy with a lot of bible quotes, clichés, slang and overly detailed clothes descriptions, peppered with “Negros” and “White Boy”. Bowen took issues like community development and weaved in a story about a church family working to save their community as well as dating as Christians and discussing church life and small town politics, but fell flat on attention grabbing dialogue.Also, too many irrelevant characters were introduced who muddled the plot and did nothing to advance or enhance the story. Bowen gave a lot of lists, such as hip/hop and rap artists, stores (Kmart, Wal-Mart & Target) and more. Then there are some other plot devices that just seem unbelievable, such as the police officer who responds when Theresa accidentally sets off her home alarm system. The officer, seeing her upset, gives her unsolicited religious advice that's pretty personal and intrusive. It was jarring and interrupted the forward motion of the book. On the bright side, there are a few fun characters and several laugh-out-loud funny scenes. Such as Doll Face who by description is anything but with false putty teeth, holy oil slinging Queen Esther, yellow cleaning gloved wearing Miss Shirley, Chablis (table wine), blind Mr. Lacey and his crippled brother.I’m glad it cost me nothing to listen to the book. If I had spent my money to include in my personal library, I would have been very disappointed.
    • 5/5
      FUNNY GREAT BOOK