What They Want

May 15, 2006
Successful 33-year-old black model Terrance Mitchell humps his way around the world, staying in exotic locales only long enough to attend a photo shoot and nail a few attractive locals in NAACP Image Award–winner Tyree's latest (after Boss Lady
). Lately, though, Terrance has been thinking it might be time to give up his "bad-ass" life of banging strangers and ex-girlfriends, and having threesomes with, say, a teenager and her 22-year-old pal, or with an ex and her lesbian lover. There is some background noise behind all the diddling and pleasured moaning: Terrance's unwed sister gets pregnant and must decide whether to have the baby; a model Terrance used to work with has adopted a celibate lifestyle; one of the modeling agency execs who works with him is contemplating having a baby on her own and asks Terrance if he wants to be the sperm donor. Terrance, though, only begins to genuinely consider a change in lifestyle when a woman from his past calls with the news that he has—wait for it—unknowingly fathered her child. This book is all about the sex, and Tyree's attempts to hang a plot on the carnal gymnastics only muck up the works. 11-city author tour.

June 15, 2006
Tyree's ("Boss Lady") latest novel features male model Terrance Mitchell, who is past 30 but still in peak condition. Gorgeous women throw themselves at Terrance and call him day and night. Irritatingly, most of them seem to want him to commit, but Terrance, who thinks about commitment between bouts of increasingly -freaky - sex with various women, doesn't see how he'd benefit. Eventually, though, the combinations and positions get too kinky for him and Terrance realizes that settling down with one woman might not be so bad after all, as long as she's as attractive as he is, and keeps herself toned. This book has enough sex scenes to keep fans happy but consists mainly of Terrance's rambling conversations with the women in his life, tediously reported verbatim. Terrance is too shallow to give any real weight to the issues he is meant to deal with, but his story will be in demand. A required purchase for any collection that includes books by popular African American authors like Zane. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 3/15/06.]" -Laurie A. Cavanaugh, Brockton P.L., MA"

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July 1, 2006
Terrance Mitchell is a highly successful heterosexual male model from Gary, Indiana, who lives in a world of beautiful women, fashionable clothes, and exotic places. Although he knows what women want, he maintains his selfish and self-indulgent lifestyle. He casually ends a relationship with fellow-model Andrea and spirals out of control, with increasingly more frequent and kinky sexual escapades. When Terrance and Andrea catch up with each other several years later, he learns that she is no longer modeling but living a very different life. While working with Marcus Vissel, the man who gave him his break in the fashion industry, he discovers tantalizing details about Andrea's life and Marcus' new business venture. Terrance declines to profit from Marcus' business invitation but pursues Andrea. Andrea's lifestyle destroys his peace of mind and forces him to reassess his choices. It isn't until he finds out that he is the father of a three-year-old daughter that he finally puts an end to his scandalous lifestyle and gives a woman what she truly wants and deserves.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)