With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? 
by  Kennedee Devoe

Do you have friends like these?
 

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies is a story inspired by actual events about a group of women who form a friendship in junior high school, and follows them into adulthood. Life is heating up for Chloe, Sage, Emil, Talia, and Kennedee.  Loyalty, character, and integrity will be tested as they deal with man issues, betrayal, and jealousy. But will the sisterhood be enough to maintain the friendship? Or will the wounds be too deep to mend?


Book Review for With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies
I could not put this book down. Kudos for proper grammar, editing, and syntax!  The story centered around several girlfriends who were tight as teenagers, but in essence, grew apart as young adults. This book shows the ups and downs, adventures, sisterhood, and discord among the friends as time progressed from being middle school students to adults. The descriptiveness was very clear, you could almost see the characters and feel what they were encountering. The book was written in a very believable manner and the characters almost came to life as you read the story.

The author's witty and periodically comedic storytelling kept the reader captivated from beginning to end. I read it in a day. I could not put it down for wondering what was going to happen next.  I recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a good, honest story void of pimps, prostitutes, guns, drugs, hustlers, money, and other urban cliches. Well written!


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Chapter Excerpt: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies


 

I remember it was like yesterday when Tyson and Talia met. It was summer of 2000 at Venice Beach. Emil, Talia, and I were walking from the boardwalk towards the parking lot when we saw this fine pack of men approaching us. I mean, they was all so fine that it was hard to choose which one I was going to mack up. As they came our way, I started to claim dibs on the one that I wanted. I dodged the pretty boy because somehow I knew he would turn out to be a problem.   

The pretty boy, who turned out to be Tyson, ended up talking to Talia. Tyson was fine. He was at least 6’2” with a caramel-brown complexion, pretty hazel eyes, and curly hair, but I think it might have really been an S curl. Either way he was fine. In addition, he was quite charming, and intelligent. He would tell Talia that he’d never met anyone as beautiful as her. 

Talia was an assistant bank manager. She was in charge of promoting and marketing the branch and its products, meeting with customers, resolving any problems or complaints, ensuring there was a high level of customer service, monitoring sales targets, and reporting to the head office. She was making decent money. She had always low-key been a geek so I wasn’t surprised at her success.

She had come a long way from the ugly duckling she was in junior high. She had what some would say was the body of a goddess, but a face from hell. She finally had gotten some glasses that complimented her face a bit. However, Tyson seemed to really be into her. I was happy for her that she had finally found a good man.

I thought it was true love until he asked her to borrow $400. I don’t know about you, but giving/loaning grown men money is not a good look, especially if you’ve only known him for about twelve weeks. That beefcake must have been hella good, because Talia totally ignored my warning when I told her not to give that boy that money and she did it anyway. She could be so damn gullible when it came to men. When she called me crying about not hearing from him after he got the money, I wasn’t nowhere near shocked.

“Do you think you can pick me up?” she asked.

I said, “I’m on my way to church, what’s up?”

She suggested, “Why don’t you pick me up so you can go with me to this new church?”

“What new church?”

“It’s in Inglewood.”

“It’s new?”

“No, I just haven’t been there before,” she said.

“Alright, be ready in thirty minutes.”

When we got to Faithful Central, she motioned for me to pull into the parking lot. “Park right over there!” she demanded.

I said, “Why everybody look like they coming outta church already?”

“Oh, I think this is the 11:00 service or something letting out.”

I found a parking spot, I backed the car into the stall. Talia began to recline the passenger chair. “What are you doing?” I asked as I looked over at her.

“I’m hiding.”

“From who? We at a church.”

“From Tyson.”

“Please tell me that you didn’t just make me miss church over some foolishness with y’all two.”

“Well, I haven’t heard from him, so I figured I’d catch him here.”

“Wow, you can’t be serious right now! Why did I need to come?”

“Girl, he knows my car. I just want my money back, that’s all.”

I sat there in disbelief. “We should’ve just gone to his house. Look, I am not about to act a fool on the church grounds. So you’re on your own with this.”

“Fine,” she huffed.

We were out there for about ten minutes with her in the passenger seat looking like crouching tiger/hidden dragon, thinking she was hiding by slouching down. I looked over to my right side and I had to do a double take. “Oooh!” I shouted.

She popped up in the seat. “What?”

I pointed out the windshield. There was Tyson walking past the car with some other girl, who had evidently worn her too-tight club dress from the night before to church by mistake. Before I could say anything else, I could hear the alert letting me know one of the car doors had been left ajar. I looked over to see my car door wide open with Talia missing from the passenger seat.

It all happened so fast I couldn’t even tell you verbatim what happened. All I know is that as soon I looked up, Talia’s glasses were sitting on my dashboard and my passenger side door was open. I saw the tight-dress girl with a fist full of Talia’s hair. I hurried up and jumped out of the car. All church etiquette went out the window. I yelled,

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Meet  Author Kennedee Devoe

Kennedee Devoe is the Author of Amazon Bestseller, Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right...It Makes Us Even, and With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies. Kennedee is the Publisher of Devoe Publications. She holds an Associate Degree in Early Childhood Studies, a Bachelors Degree in Business Management, and a Masters Degree in Human Services. She has worked for a variety of Parks and Recreations Departments, for-profits, and non-profits agencies. She currently works in the nonprofit sector as a Program Director. Kennedee hails from Carson, CA, and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Kennedee started writing poetry in high school. She was also was the editor for her high school newspaper. She initially wanted to become a journalist, but her passion to help others led her to the Human Services field for the last 13 years. In her debut book Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right…It Makes Us Even Kennedee shares about her good, bad, and ugly dating experiences, and the life lessons she has learned along the way. In her follow up book With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies she shares some unexpected twists and turns in dealing with friendships.  Kennedee will be releasing her third book summer of 2015.

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