The Blackbirds

By: Eric Jerome Dickey

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey, whose characters The Atlantic calls "bold, smart women oozing sexuality and vulnerability" introduces an unbreakable quartet of friends looking for love in his next delectable romance.

They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Browne, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Ericka Stockwell are four best friends who are closer than sisters, and will go to the ends of the earth for one another. Yet even their deep bond can’t heal all wounds from their individual pasts, as the collegiate and post-collegiate women struggle with their own demons, drama, and desires.

Trying to forget her cheating ex-fiancé, Kwanzaa becomes entangled with a wicked one-night stand—a man who turns out to be one in five million. Indigo is in an endless on-again, off-again relationship with her footballer boyfriend, and in her time between dysfunctional relationships she purses other naughty desires. Destiny, readjusting to normal life, struggles to control her own anger after avenging a deep wrong landed her in juvi, while at the same time trying to have her first real relationship—one she has initiated using an alias to hide her past from her lover. Divorced Ericka is in remission from cancer and trying to deal with two decades of animosity with her radical mother, while keeping the desperate crush she has always had on Destiny’s father a secret... a passion with an older man that just may be reciprocated.

As the women try to overcome— or give into— their impulses, they find not only themselves tested, but the one thing they always considered indestructible: their friendship.

©2016 Eric Jerome Dickey (P)2016 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“An epic story about an epic quartet [of friends].”—Essence

“In this sensual tale, words stoke the body and the imagination. With prose that is both witty and current, Dickey chronicles the pothole-filled journey four modern black women take to find love.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Dickey...once again stirs a juicy mix of steamy sexuality with soap-opera drama...fans will be pleased to recognize characters from the author's previous novels.”—Library Journal

fantastic read or listen!!!!

I love this author...one of my absolute favorites!!! definitely check this book out!! page turner!!!

Classic Eric Jerome Dickey!

I loved everything about this story. I have been a fan of his work for many years and "Blackbirds" did not disappoint. Great story and I liked the voice of the narrator.

This was a fantastic book!

I loved this book, shows women can be friends without competition and gives a true sense of friendship.

aka Girlfriends (like the tv show)

Don't this remind you of that tv show, but a Showtime afterdark version?

The narration was excellent. She sound so good I googled her and feel in love.

It's a solid story, has all the elements, but it feels like it was written as a movie script. Way too much dialogue ... EJD you talk too much!

Acceptable ending. You could tell it was left open for a follow-up. I would recommend this book.

Love your writing!!!

I wholeheartedly, enjoyed this BOOK thank you . I have enjoyed a plethora of your literature

Wow!

Great great GREAT!!!!!!!! I want more blackbirds I just love Eric pulled characters from books he's written and I'm looking forward to more.

Slow but good.

It started slow but got good and forced you to connect to the characters. The narrator, I didn’t care for. Some of the sentences didn’t flow because she was reading and stopped… before the sentence actually stopped. It happened often and was… Extremely annoying every time the “new sentence” supposedly started but it was part of the previous one. I wished I had the physical book to create the voices in my own head.

Love EJD but only like Blackbirds

EJ Dickey has a beautiful style of writing that incorporates current issues and topics so seamlessly into his books. This book was just too long and sometimes too preachy. I stuck with it… All 18 hours of it, because I do love and respect EJD's writing. I've been a fan since the 90s. Perhaps I have outgrown him, though I feel like he is a writer who has grown as well. Guess we've just grown in two different directions. That's not a bad thing it's just not a good thing for me.

long... for no real reason.

Struggled to listen... a lot of detail in all the wrong places. The narrator did well. But, it reminded me why I have gave up on EJD books. blah.

EJD is a master

story was beautiful from starr to finish and embodies the true relationship of black women...sisterhood defined