Reviews for Don't Want No Sugar

The average rating for Don't Want No Sugar based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-23 00:00:00 David Beaudreau Roberta had a bad start in life, going from a mother who didn't love her to a foster mother who didn't love her, so it's not wonder Roberta grew up cold hearted and callous. Since her mother was also obsessed with her boyfriend, it seems only natural that fourteen year old Roberta would become obsessed with older, and wiser, Charles Harris. Charles' problem is that, despite knowing that Roberta is WAY too young for him, he can't say no to an available woman. Then Roberta gets pregnant, and Charles is stuck in a stifling marriage. Sara Tate seems like a breath of fresh air to Charles. He SHOULD tell Sara about his wife, but he doesn't. Instead, he gets Sara pregnant too, then tries to hold on to two different families in two different cities. When Roberta finds out about Sara and her child it sets off the first domino in a seemingly endless line of tragedies. I don't know who I felt the most sorry for: Sara, or her son, the one they call "Fool." Sara's path is inextricably woven with Roberta's, with disastrous results time after time. It's easy to see why Roberta's hatred for Sara and Fool is so strong, but Roberta is never a sympathetic figure, and I just wanted to strangle her myself. Sara on the other hand exudes such a quiet strength in the midst of her circumstances that you cannot help but root for her, and her son. The ending will surprise you, and uplift you, all at the same time.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-07-14 00:00:00 Nicholas Langley Has a black magic type of feel. Title seems to hint at it, a bitterness, this type of approach towards the things in life that cannot be controlled, namely love. Roberta never learns this lesson, out of fear of facing her hell-bent destiny. New characters are seemingly brought into the text randomly, but their histories are interconnected. Definitely no need for a sequel. All rests in that Roberta's absence from a social life (prison), inhibits her from poisoning her children. It's a bit ironic that Charles's legacy lives on, and it's so important that his generations to come look like him. He was a womanizer made hero because he was murder victim of rage. The darkness of his eye, of his children's eyes, hint at something much deeper, but never really concluded to.