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Title: Around the Way Girls 3

Author: Alisha Yvonne, Thomas Long, Pat Tucker, Buck 50 Productions - producer

Narrator: Honey Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-17

Publisher: Buck 50 Productions

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

There's a saying that if you come from my part of town, you're from "around the way". Around the Way Girls 3 is a look at the life of some street-smart women who think they know it all but are about to get the lesson of their lives.

Sugar and Candy Cane are 24-year-old identical twins from around the way. These ladies aren't as sweet as their names imply, and people quickly come to know them as double trouble. The Cane twins have a love-hate relationship, which keeps them at odds, but when all hell breaks loose, there's no question as to whether they'll have each other's backs.

As the daughters of the infamous gangster Timmy Barnes, it was only natural that Tamara and Tamia would follow in his footsteps. But in their pursuit of the spoils of the fast life, a family secret is unraveled that may tear their lives apart.

Twin sisters Paris and Porsha McCain have a score to settle when their sister, Alex, is found brutally beaten and dead on the streets of South Central LA. Instead of waiting for the police to catch the killer, Paris and Porsha set out to exact their own kind of justice.

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Title: Dollar Bill

Author: Joy, Buck 50 Productions - producer

Narrator: Stevie Washington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Buck 50 Productions

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

Dareese "Dollar Bill" Blake is one of those bad guys that women love to hate. In an effort to escape the hood life and dabble in the good life, Dollar quickly grows from a small pup to a big dawg. After carefully critiquing the game, he chooses a concrete type of hustle that he's sure will offer him an early retirement from the workforce.

If you ask his home girl, Thomasena, she'd say it's been nothing but love for Dollar since day one. In Dollar's eyes, however, Thomasena is just one of the boys, so it's no surprise that he tends to overlook her for every other piece of tail that wags by him. When Dollar calls on Thomasena to help him in the ultimate come-up, will she be able to put her feelings of rejection on the back burner, or will Dollar get burned?

Members Reviews:

just ok

This was just okay. The story missed chemistry between the characters. All proclamations of being boys or love rang hollow no matter who delivered them. There was no connection between Dollar and any of those in his life. The book is almost over and they are talking about Dollar needing to prepare for this next big "lick" and I couldn't tell you what that was until he mentioned it again. Hennessy was transparent. The only thing that was not transparent was the revelation of her personal life. Dollar was just written as a dumb character. Tommy coming thru for Dollar was an interesting twist. This story just didn't have that "oomph" factor until the last 5 minutes. ...sad

Too predictable

If 10 "big" events occurred in this novel I anticipated 9. It just wasn't very good.

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Title: Touched by an Angel

Author: Victoria Christopher Murray, Princess F.L. Gooden

Narrator: Madison Vaughn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

Savannah Hudson always looks for a surprise from her husband, Sheldon, when he returns home from his travels. It is a tradition that began at the start of their 23-year-long marriage. But when her husband returns from his latest trip, Savannah finds surprises she never expected: one pretty red thong and lots of questions. But before Savannah can get answers, her husband goes into cardiac arrest.

Now, as Sheldon fights for his life, Savannah struggles to put her bitterness aside. But as every female in his life becomes a suspect and Savannah finds herself questioning everything she's ever believed, a handsome doctor may be the only one who can help Savannah find the truth.

Members Reviews:

not one of her best

The narrator was dry and the book was very predictable, it was a slow read.

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Title: Butterfly Bitch!

Author: Michael A. Robinson, Wahida Clark

Narrator: Mr. Gates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-17

Publisher: Wahida Clark Presents Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

Rejected by a bitter, homophobic father with high political ambitions, and a spineless unsupportive mother, Butterfly's greatest desire is to fly away. Born a male turned transgender, Butterfly is left to fend for herself on the cold, unforgiving streets. Using a few get-rich-quick money schemes, Butterfly finally begins to enjoy the glitter and romance of life. That is, until her biggest lie creates a hostile frenemy who shows no mercy on getting revenge.

Soon, Butterfly's troubled life tumbles violently out of control. By chance she runs into Atwater, the perfect man with the perfect plan to stabilize her otherwise twisted world. And with the lure of power and wealth beyond her imagination, Atwater entices Butterfly to undertake a role in his sheisty scams. Her acceptance will usher in what's sure to be a tumultuous storm that neither of them can escape. Will Butterfly consent to temptation or fly away to free herself from Atwater's devilish arms?

Members Reviews:

Interesting

The book was okay. The book was mostly about butterfly sexing up the men in the jail. The ending was awful. So many unanswered questions.

Highly disappointed in Wahida .

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I really can't answer this. I think for the most part Mr. Gates did a terrible job Narrating it.

What was most disappointing about Wahida Clark and Michael A. Robinson s story?

Wahida is better off alone . The story was stupid from the beginning

What didnt you like about Mr. Gatess performance?

Everything... His voice was more comical then anything. Not a good fit for this book. He has done better

What character would you cut from Butterfly Bitch!?

Everyone. Trash it and start over.

Any additional comments?

It truly disappoints me to review this so negatively. Wahida has done better. I was really excited to download the book but highly disappointed to listen to.

Dont Waste Time or Money on This...

There was a clear lack of a developing storyline, encumbered with many grammatical and sentence structure errors. Additionally, the book bordered on the line of a LGBTQ Porn. Seriously??? Next time, I will read reviews before purchasing solely based on previous works from the author. This was not my cup of tea.

Okay listen. It just didn't seem to "gel".

I kept wondering where are we going with this story, or what the purpose of a few characters were as I listened. Mr Gates as a narrator you can't go wrong. However, there were certain words in the story that were incorrectly used. For example, a man coming down from an orgasm was described as "once he expired". Expired implies death, so when the character started talking in the story I realized once again the author used the incorrect word.

There was enough character development that I felt I knew who the man characters were and the story kept a steady pace. But this story lacked that "oomph" that is needed to make it a good or great story. You didn't care about the outcome of any of the characters OR the end of the story. I feel like there was a missed opportunity to make the Butterfly character interesting.

The ending didn't appear to be an ending at all.

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Title: Low Down and Dirty

Subtitle: Dirty Red, Book 4

Author: Vickie M. Stringer, Buck 50 Productions - producer

Narrator: iiKane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Buck 50 Productions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 71 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

Having apparently wounded all of her enemies, and even her beloved Q, Red finds herself away from Detroit living the life of luxury in Arizona. She's become a successful home broker with a best-selling book, and it seems as if all of her dirty tricks have finally paid off - from framing Detective Thomas to ruining Kera's freedom.

Unfortunately for Red, she's made more enemies than she can count, and she soon finds herself running across the country in fear of them all while still being in love with Q. Everyone seems to have a reason to take the ultimate revenge on her, and even the most unlikely become partners if it means finally bringing an end to all of Red's dirty schemes.

In yet another fast-paced and spiraling edition in this best-selling series, Vickie Stringer writes about a woman who will do anything to save her life and the people who go very low attempting to stop her.

Members Reviews:

Disappointed

I was pretty disappointed in this book. The story line was very weak. I enjoyed the other books in this series unfortunately this one missed the mark. The story line was very basic

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Title: Revelation

Subtitle: Unchained Trilogy, Book 3

Author: Maria McKenzie

Narrator: Madison Vaughn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

Light-skinned Selina Standish lives a life of emotional pain and torment. In 1906, at the age of eight, she is convinced by her mother, actress Lavinia Standish, the daughter of a slave, to pass as white. Although Selina yields to her mother's insistence to pass, she refuses to cut ties completely with her Negro relatives, including her twin brother, a child her mother deems too dark.

However, at age 17, in the year 1915, Selina meets wealthy Southerner Jack Cosgrove, the man of her dreams. Keeping her ancestry a secret, Selina is conflicted by Jack's negative attitude toward her race. She must determine if happiness with him could ever be a possibility, especially if she were to reveal her bloodline.

Later, a chance encounter with Pastor Tony Manning opens Selina's eyes to real love. Although he is a progressive thinker regarding race relations, Tony appears to draw the line at interracial marriage. In order to live as his wife, Selina decides, she must completely disassociate herself from all her "colored" relatives. While bound to a chain of secrecy, Selina struggles to live in honesty. How true can she be to her husband if she can never reveal the truth about herself?

Members Reviews:

exceptionally well written

One of the best that I've listened to. highly recommend it. I would purchase again!

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Title: Pretty Kings (The Cartel Publications Presents)

Author: T. Styles

Narrator: T. Styles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-03-17

Publisher: The Cartel Publications

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

BET called Pretty Kings a must read!

The Pretty Kings became the most notorious drug lords in the United States. This is how their reign begins. Bambi and her sisters in law have it all. They are married to brothers of the highly respected Kennedy family, rich and hopelessly in love. As promised, the Kennedy Kings decide to get out of the drug game, after, a one hundred million dollar meeting with The Russians, whom they never met personally. First, the Kings have to return home from LA. But, while in a casino, something so devastating occurs, which their wives witness via video calling that changes the wives lives forever. The next day, emotionally beaten, Bambi remembers the meeting with The Russians that is to take place on Saturday. Although grieving, she considers how life will be without her husband and penniless. Bambi tries to facilitate the meeting without their husbands but is unsuccessful. The Russians are expecting the Kennedy Kings only. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to take care of her family for the rest of her life, Bambi comes up with a plan. However, for this plan to be executed, the wives would have to take over their husbands identities. They must become the Kennedy Kings. If it works, they will continue to afford the lifestyle they are accustomed. If not, they might suffer a fate so brutal, death would be better.

Members Reviews:

dumbest book ever

please do not waste your money or time . I don't know why anyone would publish this book.

Loved it!

I have been a fan of T Styles for years and I absolutely love her work! Great series to add to your collection.

Stupid

I understand fiction is not real but this is just stupid and not realistic. This is so ridiculous and I'm mad I wasted 7 hours listening to this garbage

Rare

TODAY AND END IT WITH AUDIBLE 20 REVIEW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY AND YOU COULD WIN A CREDIT

Awsome !!!!!

What did you love best about Pretty Kings (The Cartel Publications Presents)?

how they loved their Men

Who was your favorite character and why?

Denium she was the one most loyal to herself and her family

Which character as performed by T. Styles was your favorite?

Bambi

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Family first

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Title: The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Edward Kelsey Moore

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-17

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the best-selling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues, an exuberant and poignant new audiobook of passions, family, and forgiveness.

When a late-life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend to town. Mr. El Walker, the great guitar bluesman, comes home to give a command performance in Plainview, Indiana, a place he'd sworn - and for good reason - he'd never set foot in again.

But El is not the only Plainview native with a hurdle to overcome. A wildly philandering husband struggles at last to prove his faithfulness to the wife he's always loved. And among those in this tightly knit community who show up every Sunday after church for lunch at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat are the lifelong friends known locally as "The Supremes" - Clarice, facing down her longing for, chance at, and fear of a great career; Barbara Jean, grappling at last with the loss of a mother whose life humiliated both of them; and Odette, reaching toward her husband through an anger of his that she does not understand.

Edward Kelsey Moore's lively cast of characters, each of who has surmounted serious trouble and come into love, need not learn how to survive but how, fully, to live. And they do, every one of them, serenaded by the bittersweet and unforgettable blues song El Walker plays, born of his own great loss and love.

Members Reviews:

This is a good story; alone or as a sequel.

I love these characters from the first book! They are comfortable and familiar, as if they were members of my own community. Good to know the back story of James and the Robinsons. I love the new characters as well. Just as with Jan Karon's "The Mitford Collection," a similar small town series, I look forward to hearing more from the good and not-so-good characters of Plainview, Indiana.

One last note ... I felt Pamela DePella's absence as the voice of Odette in this audio presentation. Paired with Adenrele Ojo, the audio experience has a good contrast and is more enjoyable when I revisit the first audio book.

Good Follow up!

This is an excellent to!low up of the characters introduced in the first book about theSupremes at Earl''s Diner. This. Story gave you more insight on the now older characters and the event in their lives that shaped them to be the kind of adults they become. The effects their parents have on each of them is. better understood. It's a good listening book ,I enjoyed the very color full characteristics of each new person introduced.

Became better the last three hours

I loved the first book,it was on my top-three the year it came out. I found it harder to laugh than with the debut. Also,while the narrator is Supreme, it was harder to follow which of the ladies were main-center in the different chapters. I nearly returned it, with three-hours left it became what I longed for. If you were a fan of the first book, I would recommend this without a doubt. Even if it is darker.

Refreshing, felt like I knee the characters well

After reading Moore's first book about the Supremes, I had to get this one.

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Title: The Boss

Author: Aya De Leon

Narrator: Patricia Floyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

She won't back down. She'll never stop. And in this seductive, suspenseful novel, one gorgeous sister puts her future on the line for the exploited - even as her past and present collide, threatening to take her out.

Tyesha Couvillier will never forget the rip-offs and brutal treatment she endured as a sex worker. So as the new director of the groundbreaking Lower East Side Women's Health Clinic, she'll take on the Ukranian mob and corrupt strip club bosses to stop local exotic dancers from being pressured into selling sex. And if she and her crew can pull off an elaborate heist, the evidence they steal could upend this vicious game - and give exploited women a chance at justice.

But suddenly Tyesha's traumatic past and high-drama family are back on the scene - and turning up the heat to explosive. With a notorious celebrity ex-lover out to win back her heart and a drug kingpin from her Chicago past in the mix, crucial scams go dead wrong, and buried secrets bring wrenching betrayal. Now this fiercely compassionate beauty must gamble on tricks she never dared to protect those she loves - and survive to carry on the fight.

Members Reviews:

A page turner with heart

I haven't finished it yet but I'm loving The Boss. Tayesha, Lily and Thug Woofer manage to be real people, even though in a lot of ways they are stereotypes. I love the inventiveness of the disguises and ruses the women use to get their intelligence and carry out their heists. Rooting for them all the way.

A Non-Guilty Pleasure

YES! This book is a rollercoaster ride from the first pages, in which three of its badass protagonists â all fierce and fearsome women of colour â pull off a heist and a crazy car chase. It just gets wilder from there. What's wilder than a heist? A bunch of exotic dancers banding together to fight to unionize their labour at their mob-owned strip club in New York City, that's what.

This book is 100% Original - I've literally never read or heard of anything like it, which is hard to say these days. And it is a living contradiction â a pulpy guilty pleasure featuring hot sex (where women's pleasure is front and centre), heists and danger that ALSO taught me a lot about the effects of classism, racism and misogyny on sex work and stripping in 2016. The lead protagonist, Tyesha, is far more three-dimensional than most genre heroines; she's flawed, vulnerable and full of conflicting emotions. Her personal trauma and secrets go right back to the most raw and difficult parts of Chicago's history. And, as others have said, her hair features so prominently that it pretty much gets its own chapter. Tyesha's backstory has a LOT of twists and turns that were a little hard to follow, but on the whole I thoroughly enjoyed this.

... because what I read of it was kinda a funny plot, for a romance

Two stars because what I read of it was kinda a funny plot, for a romance... But no more because I just can't get into it. I'm not a fan of the style it's written in (lots of slang and things), but normally that alone won't keep me from enjoying a book. But, this one, I don't know. I'm just not getting into it.

Note: I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.

Great Read! Full of surprises

Looking forward to reading more of her books.

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Title: Uptown Thief

Author: Aya De Leon

Narrator: Patricia R. Floyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Fiction, African-American

Publisher's Summary:

In this sexy, heart-stopping tale, one smart, sizzling mami robs the rich and protects the exploited - until one heist too many puts everything at stake....

Marisol Rivera barely survived being abused with nowhere to turn. So there's nothing she won't do to keep her Lower East Side women's health clinic open and give disadvantaged women new lives. Running an exclusive escort service for New York City's rich and powerful 1 percent is the perfect way to bankroll her business - not to mention the perfect cover for robbing corrupt CEOs. And when times get even tougher, pulling a heist on a megabillionaire will secure the clinic's future - and her gorgeous crew's - for good.

There's just one problem: Marisol didn't anticipate bad news even more dangerous than her curves. A seductive ex-cop who's too close for comfort and a powerful thug with a score to settle are turning Marisol's precise planning and seductive fail-safes into insidious traps. Now this beautiful modern-day Robin Hood will have to play some lethal wild cards without rules or limits to save those she loves - and live to steal another day.

Members Reviews:

Waste of my time

This book was so boring. Let me be fair. I get where the story was going, it didnt have to take so long to get there. It didnt have to be so long. It was like the author was trying to fill in gaps. I requested my money back.

Very Slow Storyline

There were some high points to the storyline, but for the most part it was a very slow read. The narrator's voice inflection, pitch, and tone didn't always match to keep the story flowing.

Yes so good!

I enjoyed the book. Kept me engaged and wanting to know what's next! The narrator was aw3some, but the book....you gotta read it!!!

Very Dry

I was bored it had potential but never came with it really. Narrator was great but that's about it.