The Hood Rats by E. R. McNair
By Leona Romich • Jan 11th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009 •
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Bre, CeeCee, Neesha and Nicky are known as the HOOD RATS. Four friends that each tell their individual stories of love, heartache, and pain. Each girl living the hood life, living the best life they can with what they have.
Bre is the quiet, shy one out of the group. The one that seemingly has it together the most. She is the voice of reason. The one who will intervene between the other friends to keep the peace. She lives vicariously through her girls’ lives, since she is more laid back.
CeeCee is a hood rat in every definition of the word. She is a mother of three children whom always seem to be in the care of their grandmother. CeeCee loves to smoke weed, drink and party and although she has a man, she has someone on the side as well. Will she realize that she is playing a dangerous game before it is too late?
Neesha will do whatever and whoever to get what she wants. She does not care what anyone says about her. She has the mentality of a dude when it comes to sex; she will have one coming in the front door and the other leaving out the back. Say what you will but the girl is getting paid. She is the fighter in their clique. You mess with one of her girls, you best believe you are will receive a beat down.
Nicky is the one who has suffered the greatest loss. With all the losses she has experienced she lets life beat her down to the point where she begins trying to cope with the heartache that she has experienced through the use of drugs. It has her doing and acting in ways she normally would not.
When tragedy strikes, the bond of friendship will be tested. In HOOD RATS you will find a story of friendship, love, betrayal, tragedy, lies and deceit. Do not judge this book by its cover because it is not the typical hood book that you would normally get coming out of TCP. I was pleasantly surprised to see that this had positive attributes in it. I look forward to reading more by this author. The story had me constantly turning the pages.
Reviewed by Leona R.
APOOO BookClub
African American Literature
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Leona Romich is a Ohio native. Since 2008, she has been a member of APOOO. She is also the founder of Street Lit Clique on shelfari.com and a member of the APOOO Exchange Team and an independent book reviewer. You can find her reviews on amazon.com. She is an avid reader. Reading has always been a passion of hers, a means of escape to another time and place by the characters she reads about. Her favorite street-lit author is Al-Saadiq Banks, author of the BLOCK PARTY series. Her favorite AA author would be Bernice McFadden aka Geneva Holliday. She enjoys a variety of genres.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to read my book and for the great review! I’m glad you did not judge the book by the cover and trust me this was not the cover that I wanted. I am working on a sequel to this story and I look forward to your review of that as well. Thank you again and happy reading.