A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life

As the go-to girl for relationship and dating advice, this real life Carrie Bradshaw and editor at Essence magazine shares the what-to-dos and what-not-to-dos for fabulous single living.

With an award-winning popular blog and an Essence magazine platform, Demetria Lucas has become a relationship guru to millions of young women with plenty of simple, direct advice. According to Lucas, most women are too focused (and stressed) on the difficulties of meeting Mr. Right to enjoy the experience.

A Belle in Brooklyn celebrates the joys of singlehood, encourages personal development, and offers tools to help women increase their odds of finding a suitable mate when they are ready for one. With advice garnered from personal revelations, expert interviews with other relationship and dating gurus, and hundreds of interviews with her Male MindSquad—a committee of thirty men from varying backgrounds who answers the tough questions about sex, dating, and relationships—Lucas helps women enjoy the single life…with or without the perfect guy.

Customer Reviews:

It's a good, easy summer read

By A Belle in DC - June 16, 2011

I don't know if age has anything to do with what was taken away from this book (probably not), but as an early 30-something I didn't take away much after I was done. There were some tender moments (see Chapter 2), but I didn't really have any "Aha! moments." There were some very, very funny moments, but outside of that I was left feeling like this is an account of her life. As another commenter said, I didn't go in with any expectations. I bought the book to support because I'm a fan...and there was some level of curiosity as to what it would be about. I thought the book was too much Demetria. I very much enjoyed the chapters when she incorporated the conversations she had with her group of guy friends about women, dating, and sex. Those were the best parts of the book!

In another chapter she elaborated on something that made it into Essence--a particular guy was quoted in the mag but not in his entirety, so she elaborated and gave his full quote for more insight. Those... read more

Not What I Expected

By 05girl - June 14, 2011

Let me start by saying that I am a fan and avid follower of the author and her blogs. I literally have just put the book down (kudos to the dramatic ending, which fits the author's online personality). And for reference, I am a single woman in my late 20s.

Overall, the book is an entertaining read. However maybe because the word "advice" is in the title (and now re-reading the title, the author is positioned as a Giver of Advice), I expected an advice or self-help type book. Instead, it's more of a collection and musings of the author's adventures in her 20s. It reads intimately, as if the reader is a dear friend - people are referred to in shorthand and nicknames, and the stories do not follow perfectly chronologically. There are a lot of characters in her life, and at times it gets confusing to remember who-is-who, who-lives-where and why someone is important.

The beginning delves right into her life and really drives home a reason to care about this... read more

Just. Stop.

By Shamontiel L. Vaughn "I'm boycotting Amazon's... - August 20, 2011

I enjoy reading most of Demetria's articles so I was pretty excited to hear she'd written a book. I picked it up and absolutely expected to give it a five-star rating. And then I flipped the page and the next page and the next one. By page 150 I just couldn't cut it anymore. She was just making entirely too many naive and/or dangerous decisions, and when that wasn't happening then there were all these superficial references. I'm actually frustrated about NOT liking the book.

Cons:
#1 If I was into name brands hardcore, maybe I could get excited by the references to a Louis bag or a Gucci outfit. However, an Editor's Letter from Ebony magazine (Amy DuBois Barnett, Sept. 2011) kept running through my mind about women who are so into name brands that the conversation outside of it is boring. I just don't care what name brands you bought. I want to read about something that matters. (Same goes for hair. She mentioned her natural hair a few times and the first time it was... read more

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