Cheaters book review

Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat... unless you have a really good reason, or you find someone who cares about you more than your spouse... never mind.

This book is called Cheaters by Eric Jerome Dickey. The genre of the book is fiction, and the theme is African American literature.

The story follows three friends, Stephane, Jake, and Darnell, along with Shanté, whose complicated dating life becomes intertwined with theirs. Everyone is cheating, thinking about cheating, trying to stop cheating, or dealing with someone else's cheating.

Cheaters, cheaters, cheaters.

Definitely on the naughty list.

One of my favorite quotes comes from Darnell:

"They forget that we evolve, we change. That with every tomorrow, we reinvent ourselves a million times over."

In the book, Darnell is talking about his marriage and how he and his wife aren't the same people they were when they first got married.

But that idea applies to so much more than relationships.

Darnell is also an aspiring writer and a practicing attorney.

I'm a lawyer too, so the idea that change is something we should welcome really resonated with me.

We reinvent ourselves all the time.

We change in our relationships. We change in our careers. We find new hobbies. We grow into different versions of ourselves.

This book is 362 pages long, including the author's note, so for that one quote to jump out at me says a lot. I happened to be going through my own season of change and metamorphosis while I was reading it, so it felt especially meaningful.

Would I read this book again?

Absolutely.

Oh my goodness.

I was a child in the '90s, but reading about all the dating antics from that era is hilarious.

People were leaving messages on answering machines, someone else would remove the tape, people were tapping their own phone lines to find out whether their boyfriend was calling other women while they were asleep.

It's like people had to work so hard to cheat.

Just... don't cheat.

If it's that much work, just leave.

Reading this with 2022 eyes made it so entertaining because you get to see exactly how people dated before smartphones, texting, and social media.

That's one of the things I love most about books.

They become little time capsules.

You get to experience exactly what life looked like when the author was writing.

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Until the next book review, 

Kyla