Love, Loyalty, Family, & Trust
This particular book focus’s on mainly Kadafi and his girlfriend Yaminah. There were a few other key characters in this book that included Jamaica (she was the mother of Kadafi’s son Samir), Wise who was a powerful man that owned Diamond Cove, then there was Chicago who was Kadafi’s half brother. This story took place in two cities which was Diamond Cove and Atlanta. This book (like the first 4) has themes built around love, family, betrayal, and redemption against crime and violence.
Now the run down, Kadafi cheated on Yaminah with Jamaica which at the beginning of the story Jamaica showed up at Kadafi and Yaminah’s house to inform Yaminah that she was the mother of Kadafi’s first son Samir. Yaminah left Kadafi that night, and she ultimately moved to Atlanta with her sister. Yaminah had left with a secret that she was carrying Kadafi’s baby. Yaminah returned a year later to Diamond Cove, and thats when Kadafi learned he was a father of another son.
Kadalfi tried to kill Wise because Kadalfi overheard a conversation that Wise was responsible for the demise of his father before he was born and he missed out on a mother. Kadafi learns that he has triplet brothers (Loyal, Truce and Justice) and he has a sister (serenity) all by the same mother Simone.
Im not gonna go to far into the books events, you will have to read it for yourself, but i do want to touch base on the fact that Yaminah got on my ever forsaken nerves with her confused self. Yaminah went back and forth with herself trying to decide if she could forgive Kadafi for cheating on her and making a baby, which i understood completely. Where she got on my nerves at was when she dated an NFL player and he faughter her like she was a man not once, but twice. Yaminah gave the NFL player a second chance to hit her again before she was done. Now, don’t get me wrong, im certainly not comparing the two and saying cheating is better than getting hit, but come on Yaminah, that man hit you twice leaving marks, bruises and busted lips and you gave Kadafi a hard time for cheating and making a baby on you. I would have left both of them men where they had me messed at. Kadafi was not better than the football player. Yaminah did all that stressing and crying about if she should forgive Kadafi just to sleep with him (further confusing herself and ultimately him) twice and then give him hell, just to be back with him and get pregnant by him again…I mean, pick a struggle and stay there.