Butta Cutz by Arlene Brathwaite
By Jennifer Coissiere • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Book Review •
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Over the years since urban fiction has been around, I would carefully pick and choose what I wanted up to read. I do not want to read in every book about drugs, drive-bys, and jails. I do not want to read pages and pages of Ebonics. Arlene Brathwaite provided me with a classy, tasteful urban fiction story with Butta Cutz.
Olivia Martin’s life will change due to one chance meeting with Clayton Andrews, a man who works with numbers. Olivia is the owner of an upscale barbershop in New York City, while Clayton is a mysterious type of man. He allows her enough to think she knows him, but what she does not know will not hurt her. Or will it?
Clayton Andrews keeps an eye on everyone around him. While attending an elite fashion show to support his best and only friend, Glenn Lemora, his past merges with his present. Will he be able to keep everyone who means anything to him safe from harm while protecting himself? Or, is this the end of the man known as Clayton Andrews?
Butta Cutz had me sitting in one spot for lengthy periods of time trying to get to a place where nothing was shocking and I could put the book down for a little while. However, that was hard to do. Brathwaite incorporated several elements from three different genres: romance, mystery, and urban fiction. What I liked most about Brathwaite’s writing was her knack for storytelling. Even though, Butta Cutz is an urban fiction book it was not riddled with expletives for the sake of cursing. There were places throughout where the editing needed to be tightened. Overall, I would recommend Butta Cutz to readers looking for a classy type of urban fiction.
Jennifer Coissiere
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Jennifer Coissiere is an aspiring author, a mother, and a wife. She has been reading books as far back as her memory will allow her to remember. She has always used books as an escape from her everyday life. Her passion for words became evident to her English teacher in the eighth grade. Since then Jennifer has been writing non-stop, but it was not until 2006 when she finally realized her passion. She reviews books because she truly loves reading, and wants to spread the word to more than just the people she knows.
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Very nice review – I will be putting this book on my TBR list
I also have to add this to my TBR list
Jennifer,
Thank you for reviewing my work and supporting me as an author.
Much Respect to You & Your Family,
Arlene Brathwaite