A review by jackiehorne
So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon

2.0

I've enjoyed Weatherspoon's earlier books, so even though the premise behind this one sounded particularly unappealing (a down-on-her-financial-luck post-college-age woman signs up with a "sugar daddy" dating service), I decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, it was even less my cup of tea than the premise had suggested, in large part because the first person narrative spends a lot of time telling rather than showing a sexual romantic connection being forged between our 24-year-old black heroine and our 49-year-old white hero. No idea why these two appeal to each other, beyond the fact that the heroine isn't fawning and gold-digging over the super-rich tech hero. No real conflict in the story, either. Particularly disliked the plot twist regarding the heroine's friendship with her roommate/best friend, which came out of left field and made me doubt the narrator's judgment. Have to side with the heroine's mother here when she's pretty upset hearing about this older white guy paying the expenses for her far younger black daughter...