Reviews for In Love With A Younger Man:
Publisher's Weekly Review: Robinson's new urban fiction is distinguished by its intractable protagonist, Olena Day. Olena is a successful businesswoman without love or friends. She takes a paid yearlong sabbatical intending to write a book and sort out her life, but soon falls for Matthew Harper, a finance executive at a luxury car dealership who's 18 years younger. Their relationship is passionate and complicated, and a stunning revelation at the end makes the age difference seem a minor point as Olena must face not only her future but her past. In a straightforward and entertaining tale, Robinson delivers what she promises. (Jan.)
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Olena makes this deep tale work when she falls IN LOVE WITH A YOUNGER MAN; who sees below the acerbic exterior to the lonely vulnerable woman inside. As Olena begins to think of a future without her beloved, she begins to look back to what she did to cause her to have no friends by running off anyone who tried to get close to her including family. Fans will appreciate this deep character driven contemporary romance as few protagonists are as developed as Olena is.
Harriet Klausner
Reviews for Sweet Georgia Brown:
"I recommend this inspirational read to anyone who dares to dream, wants to find their voice, and needs a little motivation to push them on their way to achieving their goals and being in control of their destiny."
Yasmin , APOOO BookClub
"SWEET GEORGIA BROWN will keep you laughing and cheering for Georgia. It will evoke some teary eyes, but more than anything else, SWEET GEORGIA BROWN will win your heart and soul."
The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
"For an tantalizing, awe-inspiring tale of change pick this one up, it is a sure fire hit."
Deltareviewer, Reviewing for Real Page Turners
"She's a great role model for any woman who finds herself in a situation where she's being taken advantage of, and ultimately must say, "Enough!" Georgia finally has the courage to stand up for herself, and she does it in a positive and empowering manner. Way to go, Sweet Georgia Brown!"
-Alice Berger, Bergers Book Reviews
"This is a fabulous African American affirmative answer to "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?", but with a sweet twist as Georgia punches back in their on the air gender war. Fans including most males will root for Georgia as Marvin cruelly puts her down at home and in public. Told in three parts by Cheryl Robinson, readers will appreciate this fine tale of transformation as success spoils Marvin, but encourages Georgia to be more as she learns from her husband the pitfalls to avoid."
-Harriet Klausner, #1 Amazon.com reviewer
"Robinson gives her readers another woman who fights the good fight and wins. Georgia's story is empowering and she finds herself blessed to give other women like her, the encouragement to change their lives by her example. Sweet Georgia Brown is a novel that will make women stand up and cheer as Georgia persevere and "Marvelous Marvin" gets what he truly deserves in the end."
-Idrissa Uqdah for AALBC
"This was a ride that I would encourage EVERYONE to take. The road is fun and the folks you meet on the ride will stay with you long after you close Sweet Georgia Brown. Ms Robinson certainly understands dreaming dreams have no limits and certainly when those dreams foundation is based on Him there are no limits."
- Missy, Reader's Paradise
"What could have started out as a rags to riches story becomes a lot more complex as Robinson shows the other side of the riches, and that true happiness comes from the inside of the heart, not the inside of a bank."
- Rachel Kramer Bussel
After graduating from the famed Cass Technical High School, native Detroiter Cheryl Robinson headed for D.C. where she attended Howard University for two years before returning to Detroit to complete her business degree from Wayne State University. It was at Wayne State where she discovered her passion for writing when a last minute decision to enroll in a fiction writing class opened Cheryl's imagination for creating memorable characters.
In 2001, shortly after the death of her only brother Benjamin Jr., Cheryl completed her first novel, Memories of Yesterday, which was dedicated to his memory. The following year Cheryl self-published Memories of Yesterday. And in 2003, her second novel When I Get Free. In 2004, after acquiring a literary agent, she landed her first book deal with New American Library (NAL) a division of The Penguin Group, a major publishing company based in New York that re-released Memories of Yesterday in 2005 under the title If It Ain't One Thing with the sequel It's Like That also published by NAL the following year.
Three more book deals followed; one with HarperCollins Publishing company for the anthology These Are My Confessions in which Cheryl penned the novella Strapped (July 2007) and two more novels with Penguin (NAL) entitled Sweet Georgia Brown (January 2008) and her upcoming novel In Love With A Younger Man (January 2009).
Aside from Detroit, Cheryl has had the opportunity to live in Syracuse, Kansas City, Dallas, and Orlando.
