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Now, in ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS, Basil, good-looking gadabout and homme fatale is back at the top of his game (razzle dazzling both the women and the men) and hanging out with his new friend, and rogue's rogue Bartholemew (aka "Black Bart,")a handsome hunk of a man who stands to make Basil look like a choir boy. All is well until Basil's picture perfect life starts to unravel... Is someone out to get the unsinkable John Basil Henderson?
Back in the mix are possible suspects: the mother daughter diva duo of YANCEY HARRINGTON BRAXTON, brainy Broadway bombshell and Basil's jilted fiance, and AVA "Mama Dearest" BRAXTON, a diva's diva and a second-rate show girl housed in the body of an aging supermodel—still waiting for her close-up.
Is it Ava or Yancey? or one of E. Lynn Harris's fabulous new creations...
With just the right amount of wickedness, love and compassion, E. Lynn Harris's masterful storytelling and delicious plot twists will have fans and newcomers alike frantically turning pages trying to find the answer to the ultimate question? Will the wily (and naughtily wonderful) Basil finally be undone?
Amazon.com Review
One of the guilty pleasures of the reading world, E. Lynn Harris's novels are filled with gorgeous, glamorous, A-list African-Americans who will do whatever it takes to get their way. You don't want to know anyone in a Harris novel. The talented Yancey Braxton, who was left at the altar in the previous book in this series (Not a Day Goes By), moves from New York to L.A. with hopes of transforming her theatrical success into a bigtime musical career. And if her first pop single happens to expose her bisexual ex-fiancé Basil Henderson to ridicule, so much the better. Basil himself claims to be looking for the mother of his children--a good woman, in other words--while continuing his nonstop sexual conquests on both sides of the fence. He meets his match in Bart Dunbar, a hunky gay man with a mean streak the length of the Mississippi. When Basil dismisses Bart after a couple nights of steamy sex, Bart finds a way to make himself memorable. The best-written and most wicked of Harris's novels, Any Way the Wind Blows will keep you up all night turning pages and being grateful for a quiet life. --Regina Marler ... Read more Customer Reviews (168) 
The novel is an easy read and a great book for any of Mr. Harris' fans.
It's hard to imagine how far Mr. Harris has come from the days he sold his books door to door to these days when he can clain to be a decent author.
Unfortunately, in Any Way The Wind Blows, Yancey Harrington Beaxton and Basil Henderson return as central characters in a story that seems more like a feature from a tabloid gossip column than a piece of well crafted and creative literature. While Harris is certain to mention just about every popular African American music and movie star on the scene today, he fails to deliver any new insight with this novel. After reading his previous novels, this one seems like a collage of themes introduced in his earlier work. While I found his previous novels entertaining, just like any good gossip can be, I had a hard time, while reading this novel, getting past the feeling that I've heard this story before. The novel is filled with clichés and didactic in tone. Both of these literary faux pas diminish the story and oversimplify the plot. At times, it seems the characters are only devices for Harris to preach his views on relationships and the role sexuality plays in them. Often times, it's hard to discern if the characters are giving the author the dialogue, or if the author is putting his words in their mouth.
The novel is an easy read and a great book for any of Mr. Harris' fans.
Good Book
I love this book.This man is one of the best authors ever!He will be greatly missed.RIP E.Lynn Harris.
Any Way the Wind Blows
The product was in excellent condition. I had been looking for it in lots of stores. Even though it was an older book they still wanted full price for it. I am grateful to have found it for the price I did and enjoyed reading it.
Absolutely wonderful!
I loved this book. I was excited to find a sequel to "Not a Day Goes By", which was the first I read from him, though I was hoping a book would be made about Yancey and Desmond!
I think I may start from the Invisible Life now
I'm thrilled that the wind blew in my direction; this is fantastic storytelling
I read the prequel to this book, "Not a Day Goes By."I enjoyed that book and wanted a second dose of the author by the name of E. Lynn Harris.Thankfully, I read this sequel, "Any Way the Wind Blows", and was even more satisfied with his creative writing.Harris's style of writing recalls the format of a soap opera because they both jump from scene to scene.In soap operas, this annoys me greatly, but with in his literature, it doesn't bother me at all, even when the best parts are intercepted by other scenes.
Yancey and Basil were once engaged.On the day of their wedding, they called it off because Yancey and her malicious mother, Ava, discovered that Basil was leading a double life; they found out he was bisexual.Basil was once loving and attentive to Yancey, but in both the prequel and sequel of this story the reader finds that he can be a cold-hearted player to men and women alike.Basil does not want anyone to know that he is attracted to me, however, in "Any Way the Wind Blows", many will finally be enlightened.Yancey is a successful recording artist.Her records climb the chart throughout the book.Ironically, her first single, "Any Way the Wind Blows" is about a man who is bisexual.Many of the characters ask Yancey and Basil if this song is about their relationship, and for a long time, they are tight-lipped about it, but, Basil, what you do in the dark will come to the light.
This story concludes very realistically and I appreciate Harris for that.Too often in literature, a story will have an unbelievable ending, but the end of this story is not tied in a bow by no means.Some of the characters have better fate than others, but the end is one you will want to know.I loved this book so needless to say it is highly recommended!
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