Success Is the Best Revenge

by Danita Carter and Tracie Howard

Book Overview

Lyle Johnson is a hot and handsome Wall Street investment banker with no intention of settling down. His new partner is partner Tess Aventura Dubois - recently widowed and bequeathed a multi-million dollar fortune. What she's investing in now is interest in Lyle, who can afford to share her luxurious lifestyle, if she can keep from him her deepest, darkest secret... A witty novel with cachet and heart. It is high-brow yet earthy, serious yet funny...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451211464
• ISBN13: 9780451211460
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A - Book

This book was well worth the read. Much better than the prequel Revenge is best served cold. This novel is action packed from beginning to end and "Tyrone"...you won't be able to get enough of him. Fast paced with lots of twists that moves you right along with the books. Just enough characters ...not too many things going on at once but no chance of boredom with the characters illustrated. Also the author did an excellent job of keeping Dakota and Morgan in the background (they were the main characters in the first novel)giving just enough attention to them so that prequel readers know what happens to them w/o dwelling on them as main characters. Get the book especially since it has been out for a few years and I am sure you can get it at a really cheap price.

Carter and Howard Redeem Themselves

As far as I am concerned anyway, I was really disappointed in the first book. All of the name dropping was irritating, and I was looking for this book to be the same, but it was so much better.Tyrone was at it again and it was interesting to see what he was up to this time and how he would get caught or get out of it. This book can be read without reading the first book, (wish I had known that before I bought it.) I hope the next installment is even better.

Can They Possibly Go Wrong?

For those who know, the flamboyant Tyrone is at it again! For those who don't...start from the very beginning with Tracie Howard and Danita Carter's first book "Revenge Is Best Served Cold". Once again the duo of diversity has cleverly blended the elegance of high-powered living and the gritty lifestyle of the streets. Although not as dramatic as its predecessor, "Talk of the Town", "Success Is the Best Revenge" still holds its own. Sit back and relax as the leading characters bump into each other's lives causing controversy, greed and love (yes!), all boiled into one book. You won't be able to put it down!

A trending tale of urban upper class, told with style!

This book is an elegant example of urban class. So many books illustrate lower class black society and never touch on black middle and upper class. This book is an eloquently written contradiction to the ghetto concrete jungle, low moral, lack of respect, education, class, family values and self esteem, portrade in too many other black books. Their were no drive-by's, baby mamas and cheap liquor in this book, just sheer elagance in its most dramatic form. The characters in this book could have been any race and that's what I love the most about this book!

BRAVO!!!

This book was great!!! I truly enjoyed reading about the lifestyle of these characters, and LOVED Tyrone/Tess! The characters were real, it was as if I were watching a movie.It's refreshing to read about people of color who have it going on, and I can't wait for another awesome story from these talented writers.