★★★
Precious Cummiongs grew up raised in
the projects of Brooklyn, New York.
Previous lives with her mother who is a drug addict and prostitute. When Previous is fifteen, her mother informs
her that she owes her $1,000 a month for rent of she will kick her out on the
streets. Precious works part-time at a
car dealership, but does not make enough money.
Left with no other option, Precious begins hustling for money. She quickly becomes involved with some of
Brooklyn’s top kingpins of the streets.
This leads her to Nico Carter, the “King of the Hood” who gives her all
the money, fame, and position that she could have dreamed of. When she kinds out that Nico is cheating on
her, she plans for her revenge that goes terribly wrong and leads to the death
of her mother.
With Nico’s stolen one million
dollars, Precious leaves her street life in Brooklyn behind and moves to
Jersey. By chance, she meets Rhonda and
moves in with her. Rhonda works in the
music business and introduces Precious to a whole new life. At a club one night, she catches the eye of
Supreme, a famous rapper. Precious and
Supreme quickly fall for each other, but Supreme suspects that there is more to
Precious then she lets on. Will Precious
risk everything by telling her new boyfriend about her past? And will what she did to Nico finally catch
up to her and ruin her glamorous life?
Urban Fiction is a completely new genre to
me. I honestly did not know anything
about it, other then being familiar with the name, before taking this class. All of the slang, as well as the frequent
graphic sex, violence, and language took me a little while to get use to, but I
finished the book very quickly and it generally caught my interest. It had a fast and exciting pace, dynamic
characters, and lots of action. This
genre is not one that I would normally choose to read, but I can see its appeal
for readers.
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