African-American Fiction for Women

by Pearl Cleage

An unconvincing mishmash of violence, spiritual uplift and Hallmark romance. Full review >

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by Pearl Cleage

More a bully pulpit than a novel. Full review >

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by Pearl Cleage

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by Pearl Cleage

Good intentions, good politics and a spirited heroine can’t salvage the paint-by-numbers plot. Full review >

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by Pearl Cleage

Refusing to challenge her characters, Cleage (Seen It All and Done the Rest, 2008, etc.) undermines an exciting premise. Full review >

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by Blair Underwood with Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

Some of the violence borders on the sadistic and the sex can seem transparently exploitive, which is not to deny that... Full review >

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by Tananarive Due & Patricia Stephens Due

Occasionally disjointed, but readers will quite likely be both charmed and educated by these dedicated, candid, brilliant... Full review >

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by Tananarive Due

Spread the good juju. Due weaves a stronger net than ever. Full review >

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by Tananarive Due

My Soul to Keep is already underway as a film, and probably as a series. Clearly Due plans a third volume, focused most... Full review >

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by Octavia E. Butler

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by Octavia E. Butler

A finely crafted character study, a parable about race and an exciting family saga. Exquisitely moving fiction. Full review >

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by Octavia E. Butler

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