{"id":2556,"date":"2010-07-09T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2010-07-04T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T00:40:09","slug":"raw-redemption-by-lacresha-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"Raw Redemption by Lacresha Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>Raw Redemption<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacreshahayes.com\/\">Lacresha Hayes<br \/>\n<\/a><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Living Waters Publishing<br \/>\n<strong>Source: <\/strong>.pdf copy from the author<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Raw-Redemption.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2587\" title=\"Raw Redemption\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Raw-Redemption.jpg\" alt=\"Raw Redemption Book Cover\" width=\"140\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to like this book.\u00c2\u00a0 Lacresha is the founder of the Write it! Publish it! Market it! online group of which I am a member.\u00c2\u00a0 Her enthusiasm is infectious and she often comes up with new topics of conversation when the group starts to get quiet.<\/p>\n<p>The cover and title are intriguing.\u00c2\u00a0 Cheyenne has left her family and past behind in Maryland.\u00c2\u00a0 Her presence is requested when her uncle is on his deathbed.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0a wealthy womanizer and abuser who recently found religion.\u00c2\u00a0 Cheyenne&#8217;s double life in Los Angeles includes\u00c2\u00a0 a side gig as a paid escort.\u00c2\u00a0 James is\u00c2\u00a0a client she&#8217;s unwilling to admit she loves.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story had promise but needed some additional editing to work for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Cheyenne has a lot of aunts and uncles &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t keep their names or how they were related straight in my mind.\u00c2\u00a0 The subplot about an unknown brother felt rushed.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I did like the character of James.\u00c2\u00a0 So often in novels with a romantic element, the lovers have misunderstandings or try to change each other.\u00c2\u00a0 James only wanted Cheyenne to know she was loved and was worth loving.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other reviews of Raw Redemption are available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6477810-raw-redemption\">Goodreads<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Lacresha is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books.\u00c2\u00a0 Her site is at <a href=\"http:\/\/lacreshatheauthor.weebly.com\/\">http:\/\/lacreshatheauthor.weebly.com<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and she loves to hear from readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Raw Redemption Author: Lacresha Hayes Publisher: Living Waters Publishing Source: .pdf copy from the author I wanted to like this book.\u00c2\u00a0 Lacresha is the founder of the Write it! Publish it! Market it! online group of which I am a member.\u00c2\u00a0 Her enthusiasm is infectious and she often comes up with new topics of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2556\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raw Redemption by Lacresha Hayes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[326,327],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-lacresha-hayes","tag-raw-redemption","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}