A review by bjaysbooks
The Garden of Eden: A Romance Standalone by Millie Belizaire, Millie Belizaire

5.0

Old review:

I’m feeling very warm and fuzzy right now, because this book was just so cute and so well written, descriptive, and just really all around ate down.

I will not lie, have mixed feelings usually about more urban love books, because unfortunately….they can try entirely TOO hard to make the book about being 'urban'(iykyk). However, this book was AMAZING. It focused just on the main characters falling in love and their story and they just happened to be POC. Not falling in love while being POC being like the main carrying plot point, and I LOVED that.

Basically, Eden is a Grammy award winning R&B artist, while Andrew comes from a wealthy lineage of pastors. After losing his mother to hurricane Katrina, his doubts in religion become very strong. Eden is a girl who just wants to make music for fun and for her fans, but the life of being a celebrity begins to drain her more and more each day. They end up meeting one night on accident in New Orleans, and Eden realizes they are each others muses (Her for music, his for his art pieces).