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Beautiful Nightmare
Imagine waking up everyday taking care of your crackhead mother everyday and getting nothing in return but abuse. Cocoa has only really desired one thing in life and that was her mother's love. But when that proved to never come she set out to connect with her other love, money. When Cocoa gets everything she wants and desires it is ripped away from her in an instant. The game is on as she fights to find out who turned her world upside down and she learns the truth is also a dish served cold.
344 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 26, 2012
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About the author
Nicety
55 books105 followersNicety is the author of urban fiction novels under her brand Black Cherry Publishing. She began writing in the third grade but did not decide to publish until a college professor told her that if she did not she would be missing her calling. She couldn't pass up that kind of encouragement.
She resides in Chicago with her husband and three beautiful daughters.
**Nicety will soon be releasing her children's and teen series of books under her sub-publishing company GymClass Press.
She resides in Chicago with her husband and three beautiful daughters.
**Nicety will soon be releasing her children's and teen series of books under her sub-publishing company GymClass Press.
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November 22, 2012
i love the book but i didnt like the way the book ended with open questions
November 4, 2012
Ok, let me first start off by saying that I really enjoy this authors other work (Candy Shop and Juicy.
When i started this book I wasnt sure what to expect from the title. I thought that the story itself was a really good one it was original and it wasnt like any story i have read before. Cocoa is a young girl who grows up with a mother whose addiction is stronger than the love she has for her own child. Growing up Cocoa had to deal with a whole lot of things due to her mothers drug addiction and she had to grow up faster than she needed to. The only thing Cocoa actually wanted in life was the love of the woman who gave birth to her, but that just seems to never be coming for Cocoa who just cant get a break. Her life was hard, she did things she felt she had to do to survive out there in the world. Cocoa goes through so much drama that you wouldnt even believe, but you would have to read it to see all the things that happened to her.
If i were to just base my review on the story i would give it a solid 4 because again the story was a unique, but because when I do reviews i take everything into consideration I had to give it a 3.5. The reason I give the book this is because it had quite a few errors. Errors such as wrong tense at some points it was 3rd person like it had already happened and then at other points it was like someone was telling the story for her and sometimes it was in the same sentence an example was (when she's turns) and should have been when she turned. This made the flow of the book inconsistent in many areas. Something else was the wrong word usage such as here and hear. I also felt toward the end was a little rushed I would have liked it to be explained why one chatacter at the ended acted the way she did all of a sudden.
Other than that i enjoyed the storyline I wish it would have been fixed up a little so that i could have given it a higher rating but I will still continue to support this author and if you are looking for a book with a good story line then this is one.
When i started this book I wasnt sure what to expect from the title. I thought that the story itself was a really good one it was original and it wasnt like any story i have read before. Cocoa is a young girl who grows up with a mother whose addiction is stronger than the love she has for her own child. Growing up Cocoa had to deal with a whole lot of things due to her mothers drug addiction and she had to grow up faster than she needed to. The only thing Cocoa actually wanted in life was the love of the woman who gave birth to her, but that just seems to never be coming for Cocoa who just cant get a break. Her life was hard, she did things she felt she had to do to survive out there in the world. Cocoa goes through so much drama that you wouldnt even believe, but you would have to read it to see all the things that happened to her.
If i were to just base my review on the story i would give it a solid 4 because again the story was a unique, but because when I do reviews i take everything into consideration I had to give it a 3.5. The reason I give the book this is because it had quite a few errors. Errors such as wrong tense at some points it was 3rd person like it had already happened and then at other points it was like someone was telling the story for her and sometimes it was in the same sentence an example was (when she's turns) and should have been when she turned. This made the flow of the book inconsistent in many areas. Something else was the wrong word usage such as here and hear. I also felt toward the end was a little rushed I would have liked it to be explained why one chatacter at the ended acted the way she did all of a sudden.
Other than that i enjoyed the storyline I wish it would have been fixed up a little so that i could have given it a higher rating but I will still continue to support this author and if you are looking for a book with a good story line then this is one.
January 1, 2013
I give this book 3 stars because it did keep my interest from start to finish. I feel like it could have been a 5 star read if only it didn't have so many typos and misused words throughout the book. The further I read the more distracting they became but I pushed through and tried to stay with the story. This was the first book that I have read from this author and she is quite the story teller! Nicety pulled on my heartstrings in the beginning and I really felt for Coco! Poor girl! She survived her crack addicted mother, the men in her mother's life, bullies, Drew, Dirty, Cassie and James, and Sin. It just seemed like she couldn't catch a break! She would come up only to fall hard!
The biggest twist of the book was the game and I truly didn't see the ending coming! I really feel like the ending was rushed and would have like to see things played out a little differently. I'm left to ponder what happens to Coco, her unborn, Star, Treach, and her father's memoirs. I'm in need of a book two!
The biggest twist of the book was the game and I truly didn't see the ending coming! I really feel like the ending was rushed and would have like to see things played out a little differently. I'm left to ponder what happens to Coco, her unborn, Star, Treach, and her father's memoirs. I'm in need of a book two!
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