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The femme fatale of the streets is back and she s deadlier than ever. Precious miraculously survives her brush with death, but the celebration is cut short when tragedy strikes. Convinced that Nico Carter is responsible for ripping her world apart, Precious' sole purpose for living is to make him pay in blood. The street life that she left behind calls her name as Precious wreaks havoc on anyone who stands in her way of getting revenge. While on her path of destruction, new enemies arise and old friends resurface, complicating Precious plans to bring Nico down. But soon she realizes that everything isn't what it seems. Will the dark road Precious travels finally lead to her own demise once and for all?
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 You've Got To Be Kidding.... ( blp345 )
This is a sequel to a previous book. Many of the characters are carried
over, along with many of the same situations. There is so much here that needs a lot of work, but, very quickly, some points that stand out to me..
One: There is nothing in the text that indicates that the protagonist, Precious, knows anything at all about actually using a handgun effectively.
(Like, fire, position, and movement, cover/concealment. Those tactics that keep one alive in a firefight.)
Just one example:
In real life, after you discharge a firearm without ear protection, depending on caliber, make, model and ammo, you are, for all intents and purposes deaf, for hours afterwards. Especially shots fired in a closed space, like a car interior. (And just how long does it take to get your gun out of a glove compartment during close quarters combat, ((and, where again, Precious has no fighting knowledge that we know of,)) where it could be found by a policeman during a search, and thus a "concealed firearm" charge would be yours..)a It's also implied that by virtue of being "in the hood", that somehow, a person learns about firing a gun.
This is wrong.
There's far, far more to accurate shooting under pressure than just picking up a gun and pulling the trigger. This author is hardly alone in that respect, but it cheats the reader when situational facts like this are glossed over, and is indicative of a type of laziness about details which makes it tougher to maintain the reader's interest, and is an indicator of sloppy writing.
Two: The author needs to become more informed on police proceedure and policy. The author is proceeding from a false presumption that the police are racist, sloppy bigots. It would be more useful to show the reader just how police work should proceed, so that there is a standard in the reader's mind when the author shows how badly things go wrong in the story.
Further,
In a high-profile homicide, usually the immediate relatives are placed under the greatest scrutiny; glossing over this fact and many other components of police investigative methods implies ignorance and, once again, lack of attention to detail on the part of the author.
Does the author truly believe that, in this age of the Internet and computers, that a person with the background of "Precious" would not have
a great deal of information about her background, whereabouts, known associates, medical records, etc? Especially where large amounts of money are concerned? This a point of the story not given any emphasis, and
could have been used to ground the story and give it more of a real-world
feel.
Other Examples:
If rap music is being sold, how many online downloads are happening?
How do the old-line record execs feel about that?
downloads to mp3 players?
CD's selling? By whom?
Still calling themselves "Record companies"?
In 2007?
And, the plotting. There is a twist at the end, but there's nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that hasn't been done a hundred thousand times before, and by better writers than Ms. King. If taken at face value, too many
facts crop up to sabotage the narrative:
A sucessful music mogul is killed in a public place. Simply because of the
money and press attention alone, the wife of this slain mogul would simply
not be free to move around at all without being shadowed/tailed, and not
only by the police. Any insurance company involved in this incident
with a policy would have their own investgators going over every item.
Then there's the shareholders and investors of the music company who
would have a stake in the outcome of the case, and then there's the
press, who would take the incident large; Another aspect overlooked:
the blogosphere would run rampant over this; any new details or sightings
in public of "the wife of slain mogul" etc. would be all over the world
in a matter of moments.
And in these first 20 pages of the book, Precious, under all this intense police, industry, and world scrutiny, would be stupid enough to issue a
million-dollar contract on someone she THINKS murdered her husband?
Hmm...
BUT,
Deja King says in her acknowledgements:
"This book is strictly for readers, book vendors, book clubs and retail stores who support my work. When I created the character Precious Cummings, I had no idea so many of you would gravitate to her....thank you
and I love you for that!!"
The author also says that the word "bitch" stands for
"Babe In Total Control of Herself", and cites "Dynasty" and "Melrose Place" as examples.
"Webster's says bitch: a female dog, spiteful woman, to complain.
So, to wrap up;
Deja King says thank you and Loves You if you want to read her trite, insipid little story,(cliche & stereotyped to the brim) about a lying, scheming, murdering, (killed 3 people, maybe more) unfaithful alcoholic whore who gives birth to a daughter, and then decides to get her GED.
If this sounds good to you, then "Bitch Reloaded Part 2" is your kind of book.
And by the way, Webster's is right.
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 Bitch Reloaded
Bitch Reloaded Book 2 soft cover is a keeper. Once you start to read it, you can't put it down. It's albout suspense,romance and action. I would recommand it to anyone. You can't wait to get to the next book.
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Great book for Urban Fiction lovesrs... ( shanonline )
This was a good book for all who love to read Urban fiction. The title was odd at first to me, and I know some people were wondering why I was reading a book with such a title...but it was a good book.
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Man Look.....
Read all three back to back...best way to do it..can't wait for B*tch 4... :)
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 A good read for long train/plane rides
The book was a good follow up to the second, but we all knew that Deja King couldn't kill Supreme, he is what calmed Precious the hell down. And besides Precious wouldn't of been the same without Supreme, even thought I wouldn't of minded her getting together with her first. Nico will forever be apart of her life and it was obvious that he didn't have Supreme killed. A good book but nothing really to write home to Mama about.
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