Kira owns a profitable hair and nail salon. She lives in a nice home in an exclusive community with her husband Ricky, an infamous, well-known drug dealer from the rough streets of D.C. He is also known to be one of the most feared men in the South.

Because of Ricky’s drug-empire, Kira finds herself in the most dangerous situation ever. Ricky forces Kira to believe that he’s going to call on his reinforcements, so everything will end in his favor. However, unknown to Ricky, Kira felt the need to devise an escape plan on her own. Will she choose loyalty or her life?

In a world where everyone wants to be “wifey” the question is–can you play your position and handle the drama the streets will throw your way?

I truly enjoyed this book.  I read it in one night.  ”Wifey” is the tale of Kira and her unfaithful husband Ricky.  Kira has lived through seven and a half years of insecurity and drama with Ricky.  Kira is a typical drug dealer’s wife with the same problems as the rest.  Baby mamas, thirsty chickenheads trying to get a piece of her man and jealous so called friends.  When Kira decides to separate herself from the lifestyle, it all backfires in her face.

I read this book and really loved it.   Kiki is talented and I could really feel where the characters were coming from.  The little girl was a trip and Kira’s husband Ricky was too.  I liked Kira and I understand that she loved her husband and wanted things to work out with him, most women do.  He just made bad choices and that was sad, she took alot off of him.  Well, I read the second and third book and let me tell you it gets better. 3 stars.

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Competent navigation is important to the trip so we decided we'd opt for GPS.  Not because we can't map read but because we won't have to stop to read maps.

The difficulty this posed was how we power our phones for a day's ride so they could serve this purpose.  I looked at various options of dynamo hubs, solar power etc but it seemed that the most reliable and cost effective was a battery pack.

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K’wan – Hood Rat

Hood Rat (n.): A woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to “get around” in the ‘hood.

Yoshi is young, fine, and larcenous.   She lives her life playing on men’s hearts as well as their pockets.  She learns the hard way that all that glitters isn’t gold.  Billy, a former high school basketball star, is at the end of her rope with the opposite sex.  To her, all men are dogs, so she secretly seeks comfort in the arms of women, until she meets a man who makes her reevaluate her feelings.  Reese is an around-the-way chick, trying to keep up with the Joneses.  There’s a revolving door on her bedroom as she tries to find the love she always felt was missing.  Her promiscuity leaves her pregnant from a one-night stand and Reese is faced with the task of breaking an age-old cycle, passed down from mother to daughter in her family, and standing on her own.  Rhonda is twenty-something with three kids, by three men, and riding the system all the way to the bank.  To her, work is a dirty word; between the multiple checks she gets from the government, and the games she plays with men, she’s living the life of a ghetto superstar.  The game soon turns ugly when one of her “sponsors” snaps and decides to get some payback.

Harlem has never seen four friends as scandalous as these. The neighborhood will never be the same again.

These women are four scandalous friends.  If there was ever an example of how women should not act, then this novel is it.  From Yoshi being a stripper/prostitute to Rhonda making her baby daddy’s life a living hell for no reason, these women had no shame it their game.  My personal favorite character was Billy because it seems like she was a hood rat more by association than anything.  She wasn’t totally innocent but she had the most sense out of the group.

This novel is definitely a wake-up to all women about the importance of self-love and how it influences their relationships with men and their children.  Hood Rat is an excellent novel about lessons learned and the importance of making the right life decisions.  I loved this book because it needed to be written. People need to wake up and take their place and do the right thing, not try to make it off the men in their lives.

All in all a good book, 5 stars.

Side note: Ladies look out for Jahlil lol

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Occasionally I go off the familiar path and write on a topic that lights my fire and the topic of self promotion has done just that. Now I would like to start by saying self-promotion and spam are two different things (at least to me anyway) I will try to make sense of the two and hopefully we all are clear by the end of the post.

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Urban Fiction

Posted: 06/05/2013 by Sam in Publishing, Uncategorized
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I wanted to take a moment to go over the Urban Fiction Genre. Urban Fiction is a rapidly growing genre written in an urban setting with predominately black or latino characters. It provides readers with an in your face depiction of city living that ranges from murder, adultery, cheating, prison, violence and sex all of which are glamorized sensationally.

The urban fiction genre gives writers an opportunity to challenge their imagination, create over the top characters with even larger than life situations.

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HMDX Audio - This is the neat little speaker I've just picked up to give us some tunes to listen to at the end of a hard day's cycling.

For £25 I thought I wasn't going to get great sound but I was wrong.  It's pretty good.  Good enough for a portable speaker anyway.

It's about the size of a drinking glass.

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When Samuel Wright, aka Spade, is released from prison after doing a seven-year sentence, he makes a name for himself in the drug game within five years.  He has women, money, and a loyal team.  Everything seems to be going according to his plan.  Get in and get out so he can start investing in legitimate business endeavors, above all an entertainment company.

But with suspicious events taking place, and unknown gunmen closing in on him, will he get out of the drug game alive to go legit?  Is his team as loyal as he thinks?  Will women be his downfall?  Soon Spade will find out you can never be sure of all the players on Deception’s Playground.

Deception’s Playground appears to be the first book by Kevin Williams al-Fahim under Felony Books.

The main character Spade acts like he’s god’s gift to women.  And clearly thinks it too.  I’ve never read anything before where one guy has sex with so many women in a single day.  But credit to him, he’s as fastidious about showering between each encounter.  That made me chuckle a few times but the synopsis was right to ask whether they would be his downfall the women not the showers!

It took me a while to get into the book because of the number of characters from the beginning and the lack of initial direction.  By the mid point of the book the plot started to come together, I just wish the author had made it gripping from the start.  I swear by the fifty page dash.  get your readers to read the first fifty pages in one sitting because it is gripping and you have them for the whole book.

I think many readers will have given up by the middle despite the obvious ploy of sex to keep a certain readership interested.

I read the second half in one sitting and it wasn’t for the sex.  The sex had become a little repetitive and had limited value to the overall plot.  It was the fact that I was already so invested that I surged ahead when the plot thickened up.  What got me interested in the synopsis was ‘unknown gunmen closing in on him’ and when this finally happened there was enough peril to want to see Spade deal with it.

The twist, if you could call it that, was played out a little too easily and quickly at the end.  It should have been savored and lavishly described.  Did Spade get off too easy in the end probably.  I would have preferred a more probable end for him.  I can’t say much more without spoiling it.

There were numerous unintended grammatical errors throughout but less than the average free Kindle download.  Still, I’d recommend the author gets a proof reader next time around.

Overall I’d rate this books as average for the genre – only just 3 stars.