A Love of My Own

By: E. Lynn Harris

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

After Zola Denise Norwood meets media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton on a New York-bound flight, he makes her a couple of offers before they even land. One is editing his hot new urban style magazine Bling Bling. The other is more personal.

As Zola and Raymond Tyler Jr., Bling Bling’s CEO, pursue their ambitions and search for love, secrets from the past and events out of today’s headlines (plus the shenanigans of John Basil Henderson and Yancey B.) keep the action moving.

©2002 E. Lynn Harris (P)2002 Books on Tape, Inc.

Critic reviews

"What's got audiences hooked? Harris's unique spin on the ever-fascinating topics of identity, class, intimacy, sexuality, and friendship." (Vibe)

Underwhelming

After reading the customer reviews and seeing that it had gotten so many stars, I bought this book. I was disappointed. It never seemed to capture my imagination. I'm actually thinking of not finishing it.

Great as always

Every couple years I break out my books to read again this series of books. This time around I decided to go audible. I really wish that the performers listened to prior books so that the punctuation was consistent.

Great Story

Live the story line. Just wish the narrator had a change in voice with the change In characters so I could keep up. Otherwise, it was great.

Great story!

Kept my attention. Well executed Love the narrator! Can't wait to read your next story.

Left me hanging ...

I really liked this book but didn't realize it was part of a series, so maybe that's why I'm in the dark. The character development was great and the narrator was wonderful, but the ending left me totally puzzled. When the book begins, one of the main characters is in ICU, but that loop is never closed so I don't know why they're there or what happened to them. Perhaps the next book will fill in the blanks.

Solid E. Lynn Harris quality

This (audio)book continues the stories of the characters formerly known from Harris's earlier books with the same solid quality the earlier books were written. Harris's books might not be the cornerstones of the Western literature but they sure do make this guy from Finland yearn for more. I guess the most important aspect that touches me is the compassion and gentleness in the way the characters are presented, and by doing that Harris succeeds to bring them close to the reader's/listener's heart. I always feel good when listening to his books because somehow I know that in the end everything's going to turn out all right after all. And in today's world optimism can only be a good thing, although undoubtedly some would disagree.

Keep up the good work, E. Lynn, people like you are needed!

BTW, the earlier reviewer said in his/her review that the audiobook left him/her hanging and that the book seemed to end abruptly, and that was really the case since Audible made a mistake by omitting the last 2,5 hours from the end of the book; an error that has since been corrected. Thanks for Audible for noticifation of the matter to the customers who had bought this book.

So many (too many) audio glitches

This was a decent story about highly successful people living the good life and dealing with their choices and consequences. It was mainly told from the POV of two people - Raymond and Zola - who's worlds collide when they end up working together at a glossy hip-hop magazine.

That's where the problems began. Unless you knew who was being talked to, it was hard to tell if Raymond was talking or if Zola was talking. There was rarely a difference between the two. I got used to that but I never got used to the narrator repeating sentences. It happened so much during one listening session that I put this book aside and did not pick it back up for days.

It was a good story but it suffered from the inferior narration and the bad production.

Serious funny loveable read

I wish I could've been the one who reads this book I truely loved it I was laughing so hard when he told her to let their friend lay hands on her to pray for her trusting in her cause she's pastor Jesus I was done after that lmbo I listen to it 6 times and laughed just as hard as I did the first time...

Slow in the middle, but...

a good listen overall. The narrator was excellent. took me a while to get through. Definitely a fairytale ... Or is it?

Good listen

What made the experience of listening to A Love of My Own the most enjoyable?

The detail and the ability of the author to engulf the reader in each characters life.

What did you like best about this story?

It was sightly personal for me because one of the settings is my hometown and the others are now my surrounding cities and that made it personal for me.

Which scene was your favorite?

The hospital scene when the one he truly loves shows up.

If you could take any character from A Love of My Own out to dinner, who would it be and why?

The main character becasue I feel we would have a lot in common. He attended college in the town I grew up in.

Any additional comments?

This was my first book by E. Lynn Harris I will be listening to more of his books.