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Gibbons Gold Digger Novel #3
Another Woman's Man
The notorious gold digging Gibbons women of Chesterton, Virginia, are minding their own highly-paid business when second eldest sister, Dawn, is reunited with the one man she never dreamed she'd see again. . .
Dawn Gibbons is shocked when her long-lost father reappears in her life. Seriously ill, his dying wish is to reconnect with her. But for Dawn, it's complicated--her wealthy father comes complete with jealous relatives--and a handsome young lawyer Dawn finds dangerously sexy. Dangerous because he's engaged--to her newfound half-sister. One thing a Gibbons woman doesn't do is steal her sister's man. Yet for the first time, Dawn may care about love more than money. . .
Xavier Hughes isn't easily thrown, but the electricity between him and Dawn leaves him unsettled. And when his suspicious fiancée insists he investigate Dawn's background, it only pushes him closer to the one woman he should resist. Soon, holding back isn't an option, and both Xavier and Dawn will have to face the consequences of breaking the family rules. . .
Gleefully demonstrating that a person cannot be defined by his or her past, Ellis bubbles to the top with the Gibbons Gold Diggers series launch. - Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
"Ellis' first book, Can't Stand the Heat, was very good but this is even better. From the first page to the last she keeps your interest by weaving a story that mixes love and deception." - 4.5 star review, RT Book Reviews
Dawn Gibbons is shocked when her long-lost father reappears in her life. Seriously ill, his dying wish is to reconnect with her. But for Dawn, it's complicated--her wealthy father comes complete with jealous relatives--and a handsome young lawyer Dawn finds dangerously sexy. Dangerous because he's engaged--to her newfound half-sister. One thing a Gibbons woman doesn't do is steal her sister's man. Yet for the first time, Dawn may care about love more than money. . .
Xavier Hughes isn't easily thrown, but the electricity between him and Dawn leaves him unsettled. And when his suspicious fiancée insists he investigate Dawn's background, it only pushes him closer to the one woman he should resist. Soon, holding back isn't an option, and both Xavier and Dawn will have to face the consequences of breaking the family rules. . .
Gleefully demonstrating that a person cannot be defined by his or her past, Ellis bubbles to the top with the Gibbons Gold Diggers series launch. - Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
"Ellis' first book, Can't Stand the Heat, was very good but this is even better. From the first page to the last she keeps your interest by weaving a story that mixes love and deception." - 4.5 star review, RT Book Reviews
336 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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About the author
Shelly Ellis
16 books381 followersShelly Ellis is a NAACP Image Award-nominated women's fiction/romance author and creator of the Gibbons Gold Digger and Chesterton Scandal series. Her fiction writing career began when she became one of four finalists in a First-Time Writers Contest when she was 19 years old. The prize was a publishing contract and having her first short-story romance appear in an anthology. She has since published ten novels and was a finalist for 2015 NAACP Image Award in the Literary Fiction Category, a three-time finalist for the African American Literary Award in the romance category (2012, 2016, and 2017), and a finalist for the 2015 RT Reviewers' Choice Award in Multicultural Romance category.
She is married and lives in Prince George's County, Maryland with her husband and their daughter. Visit her at her web site www.shellyellisbooks.com.
She is married and lives in Prince George's County, Maryland with her husband and their daughter. Visit her at her web site www.shellyellisbooks.com.
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November 4, 2017
As the 3rd Gibbons sister Dawn was introduced, not as reserved as Lauren, and just as feisty as Stephanie, Dawn proved she could also hold her own. While she had basically given up on love, once Dawn met her father, her love floodgates opened also. Throughout, the storyline was evolving as Dawn's growth was seen & in her 2 younger sisters. Mother Yolonda continued as a piece of work with sister Cynthia not far behind. This is a very good series that I'm truly enjoying. Looking forward to reading about Cynthia to see if she can be melted.
December 20, 2016
very good read
April 30, 2014
Another Woman's Man, Shelly Ellis
Review from Jeannie Zelos Book reviews.
This is one of a connected series of stand alone books about the Gibbons sisters. I loved the description – I do like a complicated romance with jealousies and love tangles...I've not read the other books but enjoyed this one never the less.
I rarely look at book covers and it wasn't til I was some way into the book that I realised many of the characters were coloured. That made me feel as if I was racist as I suddenly realised I’d automatically assumed everyone was white...and I felt really bad for a while. Mulling it over though I realised I also assume everyone in a book is able bodied, unless its specified otherwise even though I’m an amputee wheelchair user, so I've come to the conclusion I’m just assuming norms, and where I live, rural north Norfolk – most people are white and able bodied. Felt better after that as I’ve always been clear that I hate any form of discrimination, don't understand why people are so hooked on colour and race, and for a while thought I’d inadvertently succumbed to it myself :(
Anyway, the book; its a fun read. I loved the scatty sisters, the much wed mum, and the way they all were so close even though they fought like teens at times. Its nice to have that love and support, even if it is wearing sometimes. Poor Dawn, she feels as though she's always judged by her mums behaviour, multiple marriages and supported financially by husbands. She's been married twice herself which doesn't help, but has decided no more men, she's going to just concentrate on her art career. She's proud that she stands on her own two feet. Then her dad comes into the story – she's never known about him, but now he's dying he wants to meet her. They get on really well, but it causes friction with her sisters as they think she's putting her new family first. Of course there's also the complication of her just discovered half sister's fiancé, the hot and sexy Xavier who she's really really attracted to. The Gibbons sisters have a motto though Never take another sisters man, and she's not going to break it. Besides that he's younger than her and at first meeting assumes she's like her mothers and very judgemental.
Xavier is confused, Dawn and her family stand for all the things he dislikes so why is he so attracted to her. He's getting married to her half sister in a few months, and they are total contrasts. If he loves Elizabeth how come he wants Dawn? She volunteers – after much persuasion – to tutor art classes at the youth centre he helps run, and from there they just get closer. There's lots more going on too, that pack the story with interests and shows each characters for what they are. Its full of back-stabbings, betrayals, jealousies, a stalker trying to stop her mums wedding – so much more going on than meets the eye. There's lots of fun and drama here, never a dull moment and it's a romance I really enjoyed reading but as a one off only.
Stars:four, good solid story.
ARC supplied by Netgalley.
Review from Jeannie Zelos Book reviews.
This is one of a connected series of stand alone books about the Gibbons sisters. I loved the description – I do like a complicated romance with jealousies and love tangles...I've not read the other books but enjoyed this one never the less.
I rarely look at book covers and it wasn't til I was some way into the book that I realised many of the characters were coloured. That made me feel as if I was racist as I suddenly realised I’d automatically assumed everyone was white...and I felt really bad for a while. Mulling it over though I realised I also assume everyone in a book is able bodied, unless its specified otherwise even though I’m an amputee wheelchair user, so I've come to the conclusion I’m just assuming norms, and where I live, rural north Norfolk – most people are white and able bodied. Felt better after that as I’ve always been clear that I hate any form of discrimination, don't understand why people are so hooked on colour and race, and for a while thought I’d inadvertently succumbed to it myself :(
Anyway, the book; its a fun read. I loved the scatty sisters, the much wed mum, and the way they all were so close even though they fought like teens at times. Its nice to have that love and support, even if it is wearing sometimes. Poor Dawn, she feels as though she's always judged by her mums behaviour, multiple marriages and supported financially by husbands. She's been married twice herself which doesn't help, but has decided no more men, she's going to just concentrate on her art career. She's proud that she stands on her own two feet. Then her dad comes into the story – she's never known about him, but now he's dying he wants to meet her. They get on really well, but it causes friction with her sisters as they think she's putting her new family first. Of course there's also the complication of her just discovered half sister's fiancé, the hot and sexy Xavier who she's really really attracted to. The Gibbons sisters have a motto though Never take another sisters man, and she's not going to break it. Besides that he's younger than her and at first meeting assumes she's like her mothers and very judgemental.
Xavier is confused, Dawn and her family stand for all the things he dislikes so why is he so attracted to her. He's getting married to her half sister in a few months, and they are total contrasts. If he loves Elizabeth how come he wants Dawn? She volunteers – after much persuasion – to tutor art classes at the youth centre he helps run, and from there they just get closer. There's lots more going on too, that pack the story with interests and shows each characters for what they are. Its full of back-stabbings, betrayals, jealousies, a stalker trying to stop her mums wedding – so much more going on than meets the eye. There's lots of fun and drama here, never a dull moment and it's a romance I really enjoyed reading but as a one off only.
Stars:four, good solid story.
ARC supplied by Netgalley.
September 9, 2016
It is entirely a testament to Shelly Ellis’ ability to develop a compelling character and gave me the opportunity to overlook the actions and beliefs at the core of the main character’s personality: most of which are distasteful and dance on the edge of stereotypical.
Dawn is one of the four Gibbons sisters, raised by their mother to take a ‘what he can do FOR me” attitude toward the men in their life. Her mother has managed to amass considerable wealth, and always been able to provide the best for her girls, despite her utterly mercenary views on men and relationships. For Dawn, the whole process is tiring, and she is starting to see that the way she was raised, and the beliefs she holds about men and relationships just may not be right.
So, she has decided that focusing on her career is most important, and perhaps a relationship: a carefully contrived, constrained and constructive agreement, will come in time. All of that is thrown into the skip when her father reappears in her life: and she sees the destructive power of her mother’s greed and actions. While she spends time with the man she didn’t know, revelations about her childhood, the things she always believed and even her own thoughts about her family dynamic and behavior are all brought into question.
Nothing sends her into questioning mode more than Xavier, her father’s right hand man, who also happens to be engaged to her half-sister. Xavier is as intrigued by Dawn as she is by him: his fiancé is spoiled and very much a Daddy’s Girl, with little positive to redeem her. He’s not looking, not really: but there is Dawn, only interested in carefully contrived, highly regulated encounters that don’t involve her heart.
Ellis manages to give each character in this story an emotional honesty and ability to question what they know when they get new information. The whole gold-digger philosophy is so abhorrent and foreign to me that the matter-of-fact proclamations from Dawn’s mother is in such a direct contrast from the woman that Dawn is starting to become that it was difficult to not empathize with her struggle to incorporate the new information and adjust herself accordingly. Now, the whole ‘other woman’s man’ issue was a difficult one to swallow, and while Ellis did manage to provide both Xavier and Dawn with reasons that they used to justify their own growing relationship, both lost a few points in the ‘I can like this character’ department.
The story did wander a bit more than I would have hoped, and there were several threads that were quickly woven in to completion without really feeling as if they really had been dealt with, but for my first introduction to this author – this was an interesting concept and view into her deft handling of difficult philosophies and behaviors. The books in the collection each focus on a different sister, and this installment worked as a single read without issue. I was challenged to put aside my own personal prejudices about infidelity and mercenary mate hunting, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I received an eArc copy from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.
Dawn is one of the four Gibbons sisters, raised by their mother to take a ‘what he can do FOR me” attitude toward the men in their life. Her mother has managed to amass considerable wealth, and always been able to provide the best for her girls, despite her utterly mercenary views on men and relationships. For Dawn, the whole process is tiring, and she is starting to see that the way she was raised, and the beliefs she holds about men and relationships just may not be right.
So, she has decided that focusing on her career is most important, and perhaps a relationship: a carefully contrived, constrained and constructive agreement, will come in time. All of that is thrown into the skip when her father reappears in her life: and she sees the destructive power of her mother’s greed and actions. While she spends time with the man she didn’t know, revelations about her childhood, the things she always believed and even her own thoughts about her family dynamic and behavior are all brought into question.
Nothing sends her into questioning mode more than Xavier, her father’s right hand man, who also happens to be engaged to her half-sister. Xavier is as intrigued by Dawn as she is by him: his fiancé is spoiled and very much a Daddy’s Girl, with little positive to redeem her. He’s not looking, not really: but there is Dawn, only interested in carefully contrived, highly regulated encounters that don’t involve her heart.
Ellis manages to give each character in this story an emotional honesty and ability to question what they know when they get new information. The whole gold-digger philosophy is so abhorrent and foreign to me that the matter-of-fact proclamations from Dawn’s mother is in such a direct contrast from the woman that Dawn is starting to become that it was difficult to not empathize with her struggle to incorporate the new information and adjust herself accordingly. Now, the whole ‘other woman’s man’ issue was a difficult one to swallow, and while Ellis did manage to provide both Xavier and Dawn with reasons that they used to justify their own growing relationship, both lost a few points in the ‘I can like this character’ department.
The story did wander a bit more than I would have hoped, and there were several threads that were quickly woven in to completion without really feeling as if they really had been dealt with, but for my first introduction to this author – this was an interesting concept and view into her deft handling of difficult philosophies and behaviors. The books in the collection each focus on a different sister, and this installment worked as a single read without issue. I was challenged to put aside my own personal prejudices about infidelity and mercenary mate hunting, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I received an eArc copy from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.
September 20, 2014
Another Woman’s Man, by Shelly Ellis, is the third release in the Gibbons Gold Digger series. The author did an amazing job by writing such an exhilarating story that can be read as a stand-alone, if the reader chooses not to start with the first novel.
Dawn Gibbons finally decided to break the family tradition and stopped seeking men according to their wealth. With two marriages under her belt, Dawn is keeping her eyes off of men and focusing on her art gallery. When her father, whom she has never met, enters her life, her attention is quickly diverted to his handsome lawyer.
Xavier Hughes is leery about Herbert Allen’s new found decision to meet his estranged daughter. Once Xavier and Dawn moved past their crossroad, he realizes how much she has changed from her last divorce. Engaged to one daughter and physically attracted to another, Xavier’s loyalty to Herbert is questionable.
Too often estranged relationships have a continuous negative impact on the people involved, which is why I’m glad the author took the storyline in a different direction between Dawn and Herbert. Herbert acknowledged Dawn as his daughter, not only in private, but also publicly.
I’m still in awe regarding Dawn’s half-sister’s character, Constance. At first she appeared to be ditsy and naive but when the truth was revealed, Constance’s character is the complete opposite. When Yolanda, Dawn’s mother, is standing at the altar ready to say “I do”, her world comes to an abrupt halt when her fiance’s girlfriend is standing in front of them pointing a .38 revolver.
Another Woman’s Man will keep you turning page after page. The scenes are filled with betrayal, sorrow, laughter, and love. I love when authors include life’s lessons within their writing. One that stands out is “be true to yourself to love someone else”.
This novel is highly recommended.
-Reviewed by LaMona
Dawn Gibbons finally decided to break the family tradition and stopped seeking men according to their wealth. With two marriages under her belt, Dawn is keeping her eyes off of men and focusing on her art gallery. When her father, whom she has never met, enters her life, her attention is quickly diverted to his handsome lawyer.
Xavier Hughes is leery about Herbert Allen’s new found decision to meet his estranged daughter. Once Xavier and Dawn moved past their crossroad, he realizes how much she has changed from her last divorce. Engaged to one daughter and physically attracted to another, Xavier’s loyalty to Herbert is questionable.
Too often estranged relationships have a continuous negative impact on the people involved, which is why I’m glad the author took the storyline in a different direction between Dawn and Herbert. Herbert acknowledged Dawn as his daughter, not only in private, but also publicly.
I’m still in awe regarding Dawn’s half-sister’s character, Constance. At first she appeared to be ditsy and naive but when the truth was revealed, Constance’s character is the complete opposite. When Yolanda, Dawn’s mother, is standing at the altar ready to say “I do”, her world comes to an abrupt halt when her fiance’s girlfriend is standing in front of them pointing a .38 revolver.
Another Woman’s Man will keep you turning page after page. The scenes are filled with betrayal, sorrow, laughter, and love. I love when authors include life’s lessons within their writing. One that stands out is “be true to yourself to love someone else”.
This novel is highly recommended.
-Reviewed by LaMona
May 16, 2014
Another Woman’s Man is the third book in Shelly Ellis’ Gibbons Gold Digger Series. This novel is written from Dawn Gibbons’ point of view. She is the second oldest of the four sisters. Dawn is starting to think that catering to men and following her mother’s teachings is becoming a lot of work and not worth it. So she decides to take a sabbatical from men to focus on her career. This becomes hard for her to do once she receives a surprise visit from her long lost father and his handsome lawyer. She soon finds out that her father’s lawyer is her soon to be brother-in-law. This means that she has to try and deny her attraction to him. Throughout this novel, Dawn is taken on a roller coaster ride and the reader goes with her through a wide range of emotions. This is another good book by Shelly Ellis and I would definitely recommend this series.
May 20, 2014
Mrs. Ellis,
I think I have said this is another review of one of your books, but I love, love, love how these women who everyone think are so not worthy because of a reputation have found men that are willing to look beyond their past and give love a chance with them. So many of the books that I read the woman is so innocent yet the man has just been having time of his life and spreading himself around. Not that there is nothing wrong with women being innocent, but in the real world we have all fallen short and have a past that we need someone to look beyond and see who we really are despite what is in our past. This is another wonderful story about the Gibsons' I can't wait for Cynthia's story and I just know you have something wonderful in store for Miss Yolanda.
I think I have said this is another review of one of your books, but I love, love, love how these women who everyone think are so not worthy because of a reputation have found men that are willing to look beyond their past and give love a chance with them. So many of the books that I read the woman is so innocent yet the man has just been having time of his life and spreading himself around. Not that there is nothing wrong with women being innocent, but in the real world we have all fallen short and have a past that we need someone to look beyond and see who we really are despite what is in our past. This is another wonderful story about the Gibsons' I can't wait for Cynthia's story and I just know you have something wonderful in store for Miss Yolanda.
May 30, 2016
One more Gibbons' girl falls quick and HARD...Dawn meets her long lost father...she's angry and hurt that he has a new family and never thought to come and see about her until he's on his deathbed...will she forgive him and get to know him...with her father comes a tall dark and handsome attorney who despite the fact that he's not her type she's DEFINITELY attracted to him...I enjoyed watching the sparks fly between Xavier and Dawn...this series is full of DRAMA and has a colorful and quite LIVELY cast of characters...looking forward to reading about the eldest Gibbons' girl, Cynthia...will she give up her gold digging ways or continue to follow the family rules handed down her grandmother and mother. Kudos Shelly Ellis!
March 13, 2014
I was lucky enough to win this book in a giveaway (thank you) and I must say it was a really nice read, I thoroughly enjoyed it. If im not mistaking, this was a follow up to the authors previous book. seeing as though I did not read that one, I thought it might be a little hard to get into this one not knowing the characters full stories and background, but it surprisingly was not. although some parts of the book was predictable (what book isn't?) it kept me interested. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a quick fun read with a bit of drama, romance, juicy secrets exposed and some hot love scenes.
January 25, 2018
Another Woman’s Man and Dawn Gibbons….Just goes to show you that people can change. This third book of the Gold Digger Series, these sisters and mother was all about getting what they could from men. But Dawn finally realized that possible following her mother’s teachings was nothing but work and heartache. Dawn focused on her career and decided to leave men alone for a while. She gets a visit from her long lost father who is ill and his handsome lawyer. Dawn’s father has done really well. But for once Dawn is not building a relationship with her father for monetary reasons. The lawyer Xavier is engaged to Dawn half-sister. She begins to care about what they think of her and her feelings for her father has grown to true father-daughter love. She also falls for her half-sister’s man. We find out that her half-sister Constance has been cheating on Xavier their whole relationship. So in the end Dawn gets to find love in Xavier.
September 6, 2020
Just finished Another Woman's Man by Shelly Ellis on Audible. #ThemGibbonsGirls
I thought I had read this already but I was pleased to see that I haven't. WOOP! Happy Sunday to me.
As usual, I want this book /series to be a televised event, so I can see it played out on screen.
I totally hear Angela Bassett in the way Yolanda (mom) is read. An absolutely engaging story full of drama (!!) and steamy romance. HIGHLY recommend.
I thought I had read this already but I was pleased to see that I haven't. WOOP! Happy Sunday to me.
As usual, I want this book /series to be a televised event, so I can see it played out on screen.
I totally hear Angela Bassett in the way Yolanda (mom) is read. An absolutely engaging story full of drama (!!) and steamy romance. HIGHLY recommend.
May 3, 2019
I think it is my favorite out of the series. I just wish the step mother and daughter could have been set straight and got what they deserved.
June 25, 2019
Good read, Great ending!
September 22, 2020
I listened to this book on Audible
I loved the story, but liked the other narrator better. It was just something with her voice I didn't like.
I loved the story, but liked the other narrator better. It was just something with her voice I didn't like.
August 27, 2022
This one has been my favorite so far in the series! Dawn and Xavier's courtship gave me chills and I couldn't predict the outcome.
May 30, 2023
I loved the sister twist in this one.
July 5, 2023
This book was meh.
May 22, 2014
This novel open up with the Gibbons family. Four grow females and their mother. Mother Gibbon has taught her daughters only what she knew best. Choosing the right kind of wealth and marry it. While their mother is preparing for yet another wedding, two of the sisters are in love, one is pregnant, another is neither pregnant nor does she have a love interest and the other has decided that she is finished looking the rich and wealthy man and decides to focus on her career, plus she has been married twice to wealthy men.
While Dawn choose to leave men alone and concentrate on her career, she is hosting an Art show. At the art show she is introduced to a man that states he is her father. She is stunned because she has never in her 30 plus years seen or met her father.
She learns that she has a half sister and her father has a handsome confidant who also is a lawyer for her dad. Later she learns that this same man is also the fiance of her half sister.
As Dawn and the lawyer fight off their feelings for one another, Dawn's mother is being threaten by a woman who is determined to put an end to the wedding. The story line has some humor to it, a bit of shady romance and a heartfelt moment. The characters traits were easily recognizable except for a scene where one sisrer did not inform the family that someone has been following their mother around. My reading pace was moderate, I did encounter moments of sliding down a few lines. My favorite character was the father. My least favorite was the mother. I totally disagree with the methods she taught her daughters. The book cover rating:3/5. The title and story line connectin is a 5/5. and I give this novel a three star review rating.
While Dawn choose to leave men alone and concentrate on her career, she is hosting an Art show. At the art show she is introduced to a man that states he is her father. She is stunned because she has never in her 30 plus years seen or met her father.
She learns that she has a half sister and her father has a handsome confidant who also is a lawyer for her dad. Later she learns that this same man is also the fiance of her half sister.
As Dawn and the lawyer fight off their feelings for one another, Dawn's mother is being threaten by a woman who is determined to put an end to the wedding. The story line has some humor to it, a bit of shady romance and a heartfelt moment. The characters traits were easily recognizable except for a scene where one sisrer did not inform the family that someone has been following their mother around. My reading pace was moderate, I did encounter moments of sliding down a few lines. My favorite character was the father. My least favorite was the mother. I totally disagree with the methods she taught her daughters. The book cover rating:3/5. The title and story line connectin is a 5/5. and I give this novel a three star review rating.
November 29, 2014
Another Woman's Man by Shelly Ellis
This was a Gibbons Gold Digger novel. The Gibbons are a mother and her daughters who are gold diggers. A gold digger is a woman who targets wealthy men for relationships to obtain their money. This novel focuses on one of the daughters, Dawn. The character of Dawn is actually a person you could be friends with but would definitely watch your man around. She is faced with meeting her estranged father who is seriously ill and discovering he does not want anything from her other than to build a semblance of a relationship with her. But, with building a relationship with him she faces the challenge of building a rapport with the rest of the family, his wife, daughter (her new sister), and her fiancé. Money is not her motive for the relationship she is building with her father or Xavier which surprises herself and her sisters. She began to care about their opinion of her. She had feelings for both her father and her sister's fiancé that she could not suppress no matter how hard she tried. The book had many emotional ups and downs and was overall a captivating book but some of the innuendo from other books in the series was obvious. The shadow of other books should have been omitted or explained better. Overall, this was a romantic book with a Cinderella kind of ending.
February 12, 2015
***I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest reveiw***
I wanted to like this book. And maybe I received it before it went through some final editing. But this book was very poorly written. One sentence we're greeting someone at the door, the next we're already half way through eating dinner. Not even a sentence in between to indicate an uneventful trip into the dinning room or that there weren't any awkward introductions. In a story like this, there would have been glares/stares and awkward introductions at that dinner! It didn't seem right to me when there should have been more going on in between.
I think this book was missing a lot and if so many of the blanks could have been filled in, this would have been a great story. It has good potential.
Also, I was lead to believe this was a stand alone book, only after the Epilogue did I find out that this book is part of a series when I came upon a Book 1 snippet. I personally, don't care to jump into the middle of a series. Yes, you can read it as a stand alone, but reading the others first gives you a background on the family.
This was my first Shelly Ellis book, I haven't written her off quite yet because she has some great potential, but we'll see what the next book brings.
I wanted to like this book. And maybe I received it before it went through some final editing. But this book was very poorly written. One sentence we're greeting someone at the door, the next we're already half way through eating dinner. Not even a sentence in between to indicate an uneventful trip into the dinning room or that there weren't any awkward introductions. In a story like this, there would have been glares/stares and awkward introductions at that dinner! It didn't seem right to me when there should have been more going on in between.
I think this book was missing a lot and if so many of the blanks could have been filled in, this would have been a great story. It has good potential.
Also, I was lead to believe this was a stand alone book, only after the Epilogue did I find out that this book is part of a series when I came upon a Book 1 snippet. I personally, don't care to jump into the middle of a series. Yes, you can read it as a stand alone, but reading the others first gives you a background on the family.
This was my first Shelly Ellis book, I haven't written her off quite yet because she has some great potential, but we'll see what the next book brings.
May 26, 2014
This was another great read from author Shelly Ellis. The third novel in the Gibbons Gold Diggers series follows Dawn, an art gallery director who has her life turned upside down when her dying father enters her life along with his handsome attorney Xavier. As Dawn takes the chance to get to know her father, she also must deal with the growing feelings she has for Xavier as well as the jealous machinations of her half sister Constance and stepmother Raquel.
Of the three sisters stories that I have read so far I can say I enjoyed Dawn's the most. She tried hard to distance herself away from the family legacy and just be her own person. I really admired her spirit and I'm really glad she got her own happy ending.
Of the three sisters stories that I have read so far I can say I enjoyed Dawn's the most. She tried hard to distance herself away from the family legacy and just be her own person. I really admired her spirit and I'm really glad she got her own happy ending.
February 8, 2015
I’ve read a couple of the books in the Gibbons Sisters series and I really like them. The sisters have been trained by their mother to be golddiggers in a sense. They must never love a man who doesn’t have enough money to support them in having the finer things in life and they must never get their heart involved. Of course, in every book, each sister manages to fall in love with someone who their mother disapproves us and despite this, find happiness. In this one, when her father reappears and wants to reconnect with Dawn Gibbons, she falls for the fiance of her half-sister.
November 7, 2014
2 1/2 stars
I must admit I was bored for the first three quarters of this book, then things picked up, and then they fell off again. It took me two weeks to read this, when I can fly through a good book in just a few days. Looking at other reviews, I thought maybe it was just me, so I stuck in there, but this was just meh for me. The H was not interesting. The h was OK. The writing was good without many typos or grammatical errors which was a plus. The heroine's mother's stalker was completely pointless in the story as well. The ending was the best part.
I must admit I was bored for the first three quarters of this book, then things picked up, and then they fell off again. It took me two weeks to read this, when I can fly through a good book in just a few days. Looking at other reviews, I thought maybe it was just me, so I stuck in there, but this was just meh for me. The H was not interesting. The h was OK. The writing was good without many typos or grammatical errors which was a plus. The heroine's mother's stalker was completely pointless in the story as well. The ending was the best part.
November 23, 2016
A little predictable but still great
Once we were introduced too all the characters I kind of knew who was going to end up with who and how the story would end. There were no jaw dropping surprises but it was definitely still a pretty good read. I did enjoy it. Now I honestly don't know if I'm excited to read about Cynthia, as she is FAR from my favorite character but we'll see how it goes lol
Once we were introduced too all the characters I kind of knew who was going to end up with who and how the story would end. There were no jaw dropping surprises but it was definitely still a pretty good read. I did enjoy it. Now I honestly don't know if I'm excited to read about Cynthia, as she is FAR from my favorite character but we'll see how it goes lol
October 8, 2014
This book was really good I'm glad Xavier and Dawn finally got together because Constance didn't deserve him. Heck her mother Raquel didn't deserve her husband Herb. Both them worse than Dawn mother smh.
March 21, 2016
Enjoyed Dawn and Xavier's story. So glad the Gibbon's girls are finding love! I knew Constance was a trip as well as her mother Raquel! So happy she bonded with Herb her dad. Great storyline. Now on to Cynthia's story!
April 21, 2014
This was an easy read and a good story line. I did feel that the author was a bit all over the place and then at the end just shoved everything into the epilogue.
July 1, 2014
A fast-paced, interesting read.
January 7, 2015
Excellent read! Most read other books by author.
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