Take Your Pleasure Where you Find It

By: J. D. Mason

Narrated by: Erica B. Peeples

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Freddie “the Cheerleader,” Phyllis “the Class President,” and Renetta “the Fat Girl” ended their friendship back in high school. So it’s a surprise to all of them when they end up connecting at their 30-year high school reunion. They’ve all changed since those harsh yet tender high school years, and each one of them has her own deliciously scandalous secret. But when those secrets threaten to come to light—and possibly tear apart their less than perfect, but generally content lives—they band together in their sisterhood to stand and fight to keep what’s theirs. Funny, sexy, tender, and raunchy, Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It is a J. D. Mason take that is not to be missed.

©2010 J. D. Mason (P)2010 Blackstone Publishing, and Urban Audiobooks LLC

Critic reviews

“[J .D. Mason’s] portrayals of her characters and their innermost thoughts bring the readers right into the emotional center of the story. Those who enjoy Carl Weber and Eric Jerome Dickey will add Mason to their list of favorites.” ( Booklist)

Terrible Narration

Would you try another book from J. D. Mason and/or Erica B. Peeples?

I would read another book by J.D. Mason for sure. I thought the story was interesting at best. I didn't think the title fit the story but that is something I can deal with. The characters were well developed and I felt it flowed pretty well. I didn't enjoy the narration by Erica B. Peeples at all. She paused when there shouldn't have been a pause. She mispronounced several words in the words which caused confusion in what I was listening to. Her voice was ok but I feel that she needs more practice before making this a full time career. Her vocabulary seems limited. I haven't seen the book in print but every word she mispronounced I knew right away what she was supposed to say. I almost stopped listening to the book because she was just that terrible.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the characters and I also liked the story line.

What didn’t you like about Erica B. Peeples’s performance?

See my previous comment about the narrator's performance. Like I said before, it was sub-par and could use some polishing. Maybe she should practice reading aloud before recording it. I guess there's no editing done before the final copy is presented to us. If there was, I sure her errors would have been caught.

Could you see Take Your Pleasure Where you Find It being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

No. It wasn't that exciting. It might make it to Lifetime.

Good story line.

The narrator isn't that good. Better to read without narrator. A guick read. Great weekend entertainer.

good summer read

This is a summer chick read. a good story about friends and their secrets. I thought the reader did a very good job

Narrator, a total snooze

The story was just fine. A lot of ups and downs, twists and turns. HOWEVER, listening to book was torture at times. The narrator showed very little passion most of the time and diminishing the overall quality of the book.

Decent book, horrible narration!

The story is ok, but it was hard getting in to it because the narrator is horrible. Her accents are bad and she stumbles way too much throughout this book. At times, it seems as though she has trouble reading. I think I would have enjoyed the book a whole lot more of some else had narrated it.

Good and bad

I enjoyed the book and the story but I was hugely disappointed with the reader and the recording. There were a lot of pauses in the reading that did not allow the book to flow and there were a lot and I mean a lot of times when words were not completed. It felt like the tape stopped recording before the reader could finish the word and it happened a lot. That is why I only gave it 3 stars...

Horrible story telling!!!!

Let me say first that the narrator was horrible!! She didn’t know how to pronounce words, her tone, and all the reading mistakes!! Goodness it was like getting teeth pulled....I wanted to finish the book since I started it but let me say this book was way longer than necessary on top of the bad narrating....I don’t think I’ll be listening to anymore JD Mason books and definitely won’t be listening to ANY book and I do mean ANY book narrated by Erica B Peeples. My 7 year old grandson reads better than her!!!

Good Author. Horrible Narrater

There were more awkward pauses at the wrong times in this book, than a kindergarden play. Repeated words and dropped consonants to boot. Its really sad that this book wont reach many because they cant get past the changes in context of the narrator. The narrator's pitch is fine but she is terribly unrehearsed, practiced or something. Ugh!

Quite Entertaining!

I enjoyed listening to this book. It flowed well and was easy to listen to. I notice that several reviewers did not like the narrator. But I actually found this book because I wanted to see other books narrated by Erica Peeples since I liked the way she read the book Chasers by Miasha. I think that if a reader is too perfect with the reading it fails to show the human side of the characters, so I think it was a plus that she didn't say all of the lines on point (which in my view were very few).

What I liked most about this book is the character development. The author took time to provide ample details about each character which led to a more believable and well written story.

There are several scenes dealing with the character Freddie where I found myself laughing nonstop. One of them had to do with the judge.

This is a great read, one you will find quite interesting.

Not Bad...For the Price...

I purchased this book and listened to it in about a week. The story & plot were good. The characters entertaining & well developed. There were some funny, sexy, sad, and dramatic moments in the story which kept me wanting to listen; however the narration could have used some work. The narrator's voice per se wasn't bad; it's just that she mispronounced several words, her accents (with the exception of the Jamaican one) were totally unbelievably BAD, and there were times where you could hear her actually make mistakes and re-start the passage IN THE RECORDING?! So I guess it is partly the editing of the recording as well as the narrator. If you can get past that, which I did, then this is worth getting. I don't recommend using a credit, but buying in one of the two-for-one sales or just purchasing separately.