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Bentley Manor #2
Shameless Hoodwives
In the second installment of the Desperate Hoodwives trilogy, hearts break, lives shatter, and lies prevail at Bentley Manor, where no one can escape their sins.
Four very different women find themselves caught in the web of Bentley Manor, one of the hood’s most notorious projects, where no one has ever left unscathed...
There’s Keisha, who married the high school basketball star. Everything seemed fine, until Smokey got addicted to crack, and now she’s desperate just to feed their kids. Takiah needs to get away from her pimp husband so bad that she’s willing to go back to church, but what if the pastor’s eyes stray from the heavens?
With a voice to rival Mary J. and Whitney, Princess might just have the ticket to escape the projects, if only she could find her courage, while Woo Woo has escaped with her suburban husband—only to find herself sneaking back for steamy sexcapades with her drug dealer ex. And you can bet Woo Woo’s not the only one with secrets to hide...
From two critically acclaimed powerhouses in urban fiction, this is a gritty, passionate, and straight up real series that is not to be missed.
Four very different women find themselves caught in the web of Bentley Manor, one of the hood’s most notorious projects, where no one has ever left unscathed...
There’s Keisha, who married the high school basketball star. Everything seemed fine, until Smokey got addicted to crack, and now she’s desperate just to feed their kids. Takiah needs to get away from her pimp husband so bad that she’s willing to go back to church, but what if the pastor’s eyes stray from the heavens?
With a voice to rival Mary J. and Whitney, Princess might just have the ticket to escape the projects, if only she could find her courage, while Woo Woo has escaped with her suburban husband—only to find herself sneaking back for steamy sexcapades with her drug dealer ex. And you can bet Woo Woo’s not the only one with secrets to hide...
From two critically acclaimed powerhouses in urban fiction, this is a gritty, passionate, and straight up real series that is not to be missed.
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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Meesha Mink
15 books215 followersMeesha Mink is the popular pseudonym of Niobia Bryant, the award winning and national bestselling author of more than forty works of romance and commercial mainstream fiction. Twice she has won RT Magazine's Best African-American/Multicultural Romance Award, "Kiss the Ring"--written as Meesha Mink--was listed as one of the Library Journal's Best Books, and her books have appeared in Ebony, Essence, The New York Post, The Star Ledger, The Dallas Morning News and many other national publications. One of her bestselling book has been adapted to film and broadcast on Centric/BETHer.
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October 8, 2008
It's not often that a book REALLY affects me and sad to say, it's even less often that a book in this genre affects me. Most of them are purely for entertainment purposes, at least for me they are. This isn't the case at all with Desperate Hoodwives and Shameless Hoodwives. I was a little worried that they would be sad spin offs of Desperate Housewives of course but thankfully I was going to give them a chance and then my friend Shannon recommended them to me. They are AWESOME books and I cannot wait for A Hood Life to learn more about the men from Bentley Manor. Miss Cleo and Miss Osceala are two characters that really get to you. I even straight up had tears in my eyes on the last two pages when I found out what really happened at the end with Miss Cleo. The whole situation with Hassan through me....FAR. Neither of these should be missed my any urban fiction reader!
November 20, 2008
Good read, may have you turning pages back, like how did I miss that!
January 26, 2009
Miz Cleo speaks street knowledge in the prologue on Bentley Manor, once it was called the ghetto--projects--and now hood. Then, her gossip buddy tells what happens between the women's relationships and endings in Bentley Manor--more drama.
We have the cheaters (Keisha and WooWoo), drama queen and dope fiend (Takiah) and Drama put in her life (Princess). The strongest characters that I could feel was Princess and then near the ending Takiah.
At first, I did not feel compassion for Takiah becoming a crack head since she saw it in her hood, and allowed a man to make her decisions to dab into the drug life. Takiah returns back to Bently Manor with her 6-month old baby on the Greyhound Bus to leave her crack-head husband, Kameron Ray, who had her running orgies and tricks for his crack habit. Yet, she slipped up and became a crackhead undercover dealing with this man. She also wants to point the finger at Keisha, getting high too, instead of admitting her own faults and shortcomings.
Princess is seventeen suffers from family ties especially a mother-daughter relationship, father is physically abusive, and had been molested by her mother's men since the early age of six. She only loves her grandmother, but in hopes for her mother's love too. Instead of dreading on her inner pain, she sings. Now, she loses her dear friend, Lucky, in a rumble that was not meant for her. I don't care for the aspect of seventeen year old child jumping on her crack-head mother, children lost respect for adults, parents, and honoring their parents regardless of their bad habits.
Keisha has four kids, in beauty school to make a better life for herself, and spends most of her money on weed/marijuanna (weed-head). She is also dealing with a crackhead, Smokey, as his brother, Shakespeare is making friendly-gesture advances towards Keisha. Her cheating ways, watching her lovers in a pool of blood.
Woo-Woo (in desperate housewives) also called Aleesha is married to Reginald Carver, opposites attract, but sleeping with Hassan (who is is the man from the wild side, hood man she loves). She cries she does not want to loose her life, her husband, but keeps on cheating. Her cheating leads to secret lesbo affair and murder she wrote.
One fault, there are some chapters especially 16 on Takiah, where you read first page of the chapter and second page, has no connection. How did she get in the room with Pastor Meyes after reading this page! Then, they make Pastor Meyers demonstrate being a pusher for oral sex! Come on. Drama is sex, drugs, and murder (all the elements to sell a book)...too much drama for me. Yet, this book was better than the first "Desperate Hoodwives".
We have the cheaters (Keisha and WooWoo), drama queen and dope fiend (Takiah) and Drama put in her life (Princess). The strongest characters that I could feel was Princess and then near the ending Takiah.
At first, I did not feel compassion for Takiah becoming a crack head since she saw it in her hood, and allowed a man to make her decisions to dab into the drug life. Takiah returns back to Bently Manor with her 6-month old baby on the Greyhound Bus to leave her crack-head husband, Kameron Ray, who had her running orgies and tricks for his crack habit. Yet, she slipped up and became a crackhead undercover dealing with this man. She also wants to point the finger at Keisha, getting high too, instead of admitting her own faults and shortcomings.
Princess is seventeen suffers from family ties especially a mother-daughter relationship, father is physically abusive, and had been molested by her mother's men since the early age of six. She only loves her grandmother, but in hopes for her mother's love too. Instead of dreading on her inner pain, she sings. Now, she loses her dear friend, Lucky, in a rumble that was not meant for her. I don't care for the aspect of seventeen year old child jumping on her crack-head mother, children lost respect for adults, parents, and honoring their parents regardless of their bad habits.
Keisha has four kids, in beauty school to make a better life for herself, and spends most of her money on weed/marijuanna (weed-head). She is also dealing with a crackhead, Smokey, as his brother, Shakespeare is making friendly-gesture advances towards Keisha. Her cheating ways, watching her lovers in a pool of blood.
Woo-Woo (in desperate housewives) also called Aleesha is married to Reginald Carver, opposites attract, but sleeping with Hassan (who is is the man from the wild side, hood man she loves). She cries she does not want to loose her life, her husband, but keeps on cheating. Her cheating leads to secret lesbo affair and murder she wrote.
One fault, there are some chapters especially 16 on Takiah, where you read first page of the chapter and second page, has no connection. How did she get in the room with Pastor Meyes after reading this page! Then, they make Pastor Meyers demonstrate being a pusher for oral sex! Come on. Drama is sex, drugs, and murder (all the elements to sell a book)...too much drama for me. Yet, this book was better than the first "Desperate Hoodwives".
February 2, 2009
Still Desperate
Tired of the abuse of her husband/pimp/pusher, Takiah finds herself back at a place she thought she'd never see again - Bentley Manor. Returning to her grandmother's home means returning to church and the counseling of Pastor Meyer. Has Takiah left one hell for another?
Woo Woo is so hood but she's now living the good life. She has married a doctor who loves her long air brushed nails, braids, outfit-matching eye shadow and all. Now living in the suburbs, Woo Woo can't seem to resist the pull of Bentley Manor, or more specifically, Hassan, the local, sexy drug dealer. Is so hood so good?
Princess has a gift and a curse. Her voice is as beautiful as she is. Beauty that has not gone unnoticed by her mother's numerous live-in boyfriends, as they creep into her room. Her music is her only solace. Will it be enough?
Flashing red and blue lights are a regular in front of Keisha's apartment. The police come and take away Smokey, her crackhead husband, for putting his hands on her, she doesn't press charges and the cycle begins again. Ready for something different, Keisha accepts the help of her brother-in-law, Shakespeare, as he pays for her to go to school. Is that the only help he is offering?
In this sequel, SHAMELESS HOODWIVES, Miz Cleo and Miz Osceola are back on their perch at Bentley Manor as gatekeepers and the ghetto grapevine. The residents and their goings-on keep them busy. It's a worthy effort and entertaining read, though it does not pack the pizzazz of DESPERATE HOODWIVES.
Reviewed by: Toni
3.5 stars
Tired of the abuse of her husband/pimp/pusher, Takiah finds herself back at a place she thought she'd never see again - Bentley Manor. Returning to her grandmother's home means returning to church and the counseling of Pastor Meyer. Has Takiah left one hell for another?
Woo Woo is so hood but she's now living the good life. She has married a doctor who loves her long air brushed nails, braids, outfit-matching eye shadow and all. Now living in the suburbs, Woo Woo can't seem to resist the pull of Bentley Manor, or more specifically, Hassan, the local, sexy drug dealer. Is so hood so good?
Princess has a gift and a curse. Her voice is as beautiful as she is. Beauty that has not gone unnoticed by her mother's numerous live-in boyfriends, as they creep into her room. Her music is her only solace. Will it be enough?
Flashing red and blue lights are a regular in front of Keisha's apartment. The police come and take away Smokey, her crackhead husband, for putting his hands on her, she doesn't press charges and the cycle begins again. Ready for something different, Keisha accepts the help of her brother-in-law, Shakespeare, as he pays for her to go to school. Is that the only help he is offering?
In this sequel, SHAMELESS HOODWIVES, Miz Cleo and Miz Osceola are back on their perch at Bentley Manor as gatekeepers and the ghetto grapevine. The residents and their goings-on keep them busy. It's a worthy effort and entertaining read, though it does not pack the pizzazz of DESPERATE HOODWIVES.
Reviewed by: Toni
3.5 stars
September 4, 2008
Shameless Hoodwives was an enjoyable read. Takiah moved in with her grandmother to get away from her abusive husband. Keisha is trying to stay strong for her four kids and crack addicted husband, but ends up falling for his brother. Woo Woo has moved out of the projects and is married to a wonderful man, but something keeps her running back to the very place she fought so hard to get out of, and Princess lives with her mother who has a different man every month. Princess goes through so much and keeps a daily journal of it, which will cause readers to feel her pain and struggle.
Princess was actually my favorite character. My heart really went out to her.
Although Shameless Hoodwives was good...in my opinion it wasn't as good as Desperate Hoodwives. The drama seemed a little over the top and this time around this story was very predictable.
My final rating is a 3.5 and I look forward to reading The Hood Life. The excerpt sounds good!
Princess was actually my favorite character. My heart really went out to her.
Although Shameless Hoodwives was good...in my opinion it wasn't as good as Desperate Hoodwives. The drama seemed a little over the top and this time around this story was very predictable.
My final rating is a 3.5 and I look forward to reading The Hood Life. The excerpt sounds good!
November 20, 2008
This book was way better and went a lot faster than the first book. I can't wait for The Hood Life. These ladies had a lot of drama going on. I don't even know which one of these ladies had it worst. So much drama in one place makes for a very good book :)
February 5, 2009
What can I say except BAM???
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
You better Duck;
'Fore them 5 stars leave your behind Star Struck...
The Hoodwives are back with a vengeance, and just like its Desperate predecessor, there is More Ish than a Little Bit with these Project Chicks.
Look up Crack Ho in the dictionary; there must be a picture of Takiah there. When she shows up on her grandma Ms Cleo’s doorstep with her daughter but without a Real Plan, you know something is about to go down, and it does. Ms Cleo tries everything in her power to get Takiah to straighten up her act, even going so far as to set up mandatory counseling sessions with her pastor, but Takiah doesn’t believe in that Jesus junk, and we soon can see why. God’s ways are not our ways, and His plans aren’t ours. No Weapon Formed Against Me Shall Prosper, it says in the Bible, but who or what is against Takiah? It's Way More than just her ex-husband. Has her past made her irredeemable or will she accept Salvation before it’s too late for her OR her daughter?
Woo Woo, Lexi’s Too Ghetto For Words sister, falls for the dentist she works for. With marriage in their future, Woo Woo can’t believe she made such a good catch. Too bad she can’t get Hassan out of her mind. Suburban living seems dull in comparison to the non-stop drama of Bentley Manor; plus, Woo Woo is afraid her new husband prefers the now dignified Woo Woo that she herself cannot stand. Will she risk her new found good life and continue creeping around with Hassan or will Woo Woo knuckle down and make the best of the life she really thought she wanted? And what dark secret about Hassan’s true identity are they both concealing? Will it blow up in Woo Woo and Hassan’s faces?
Keisha is Smokey’s Who Even Knew That Crackhead Had A Wife??? Trying to hold her family together while her husband steals their Couch Of The Month and the kitchen appliances that don’t even belong to them is slowly killing Keisha. Oh, she makes enough money doing hair in her kitchen, on paper anyway, but how much is enough when you have to keep replacing the same ish over and over again? Smokey’s brother Shakespeare, who lost the love of his life Devani at the end of Desperate, tries to provide much needed emotional and financial support to Keisha while Holding It Down for Smokey (the best he can anyway). He even finances Keisha's Beauty School, which brings out the Green Eyed Monster in Smokey. He's afraid she'll finally leave him. Will she? And is Smokey imagining things or are Keisha and Shakespeare really getting Way Too Tight???
Finally there’s Princess. Blessed with the voice of an angel and a BFF Lucky, these are the only good things going for Princess in a life jam packed with repeated molestations. Her cries for attention/tales of abuse fall on her mother’s deaf ears, and the only other person who believed Princess has since passed on. Princess wishes she could get over the trauma of her past and have a normal relationship with a boy, but as long as her mother has a “man” she knows she’ll never be safe. A chance encounter with an up-and-coming music producer seems promising. Will Princess’s dreams of R&B success come true or will her mother Queen eff up this opportunity also? And will Princess learn to forgive her mother, or is a darker, more ominous future in store for them both?
I am madly in love with the Bentley Manor franchise. Mink and Diamond never disappoint; and they have done Absolute Wonders with the often trite and hackneyed stereotypical ‘Hood scenarios. Their characters have a depth and breadth that is both refreshing and captivating all at once. No one does Hood Tales better. Best of all, SOMEone finally has a Happy Ending, solving my Number One Complaint about the first book. Run, don’t Walk, and pick up your copy now.
Next up: The Hood Life.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
You better Duck;
'Fore them 5 stars leave your behind Star Struck...
The Hoodwives are back with a vengeance, and just like its Desperate predecessor, there is More Ish than a Little Bit with these Project Chicks.
Look up Crack Ho in the dictionary; there must be a picture of Takiah there. When she shows up on her grandma Ms Cleo’s doorstep with her daughter but without a Real Plan, you know something is about to go down, and it does. Ms Cleo tries everything in her power to get Takiah to straighten up her act, even going so far as to set up mandatory counseling sessions with her pastor, but Takiah doesn’t believe in that Jesus junk, and we soon can see why. God’s ways are not our ways, and His plans aren’t ours. No Weapon Formed Against Me Shall Prosper, it says in the Bible, but who or what is against Takiah? It's Way More than just her ex-husband. Has her past made her irredeemable or will she accept Salvation before it’s too late for her OR her daughter?
Woo Woo, Lexi’s Too Ghetto For Words sister, falls for the dentist she works for. With marriage in their future, Woo Woo can’t believe she made such a good catch. Too bad she can’t get Hassan out of her mind. Suburban living seems dull in comparison to the non-stop drama of Bentley Manor; plus, Woo Woo is afraid her new husband prefers the now dignified Woo Woo that she herself cannot stand. Will she risk her new found good life and continue creeping around with Hassan or will Woo Woo knuckle down and make the best of the life she really thought she wanted? And what dark secret about Hassan’s true identity are they both concealing? Will it blow up in Woo Woo and Hassan’s faces?
Keisha is Smokey’s Who Even Knew That Crackhead Had A Wife??? Trying to hold her family together while her husband steals their Couch Of The Month and the kitchen appliances that don’t even belong to them is slowly killing Keisha. Oh, she makes enough money doing hair in her kitchen, on paper anyway, but how much is enough when you have to keep replacing the same ish over and over again? Smokey’s brother Shakespeare, who lost the love of his life Devani at the end of Desperate, tries to provide much needed emotional and financial support to Keisha while Holding It Down for Smokey (the best he can anyway). He even finances Keisha's Beauty School, which brings out the Green Eyed Monster in Smokey. He's afraid she'll finally leave him. Will she? And is Smokey imagining things or are Keisha and Shakespeare really getting Way Too Tight???
Finally there’s Princess. Blessed with the voice of an angel and a BFF Lucky, these are the only good things going for Princess in a life jam packed with repeated molestations. Her cries for attention/tales of abuse fall on her mother’s deaf ears, and the only other person who believed Princess has since passed on. Princess wishes she could get over the trauma of her past and have a normal relationship with a boy, but as long as her mother has a “man” she knows she’ll never be safe. A chance encounter with an up-and-coming music producer seems promising. Will Princess’s dreams of R&B success come true or will her mother Queen eff up this opportunity also? And will Princess learn to forgive her mother, or is a darker, more ominous future in store for them both?
I am madly in love with the Bentley Manor franchise. Mink and Diamond never disappoint; and they have done Absolute Wonders with the often trite and hackneyed stereotypical ‘Hood scenarios. Their characters have a depth and breadth that is both refreshing and captivating all at once. No one does Hood Tales better. Best of all, SOMEone finally has a Happy Ending, solving my Number One Complaint about the first book. Run, don’t Walk, and pick up your copy now.
Next up: The Hood Life.
May 9, 2009
MY LIFE-MY LIFE-MY LIFE
Takiah does things without thinking them all the way through. She was a hardheaded child, and as an adult, that hasn’t changed. She’s found drugs, selling sex and Kameron, which have been equal contributors to her ruin. Without a second thought, she’s fleeing the coldness offered by D.C., heading home to ATL for Bentley Manor with her grandmother. While she knows that she will have to learn to abide by her grandmother’s rules, there is something bigger and stronger coming with her. Will Takiah finally be able to clean up her act?
Jamilla aka Princess has been blessed with a beautiful voice. Usually quiet and withdrawn, all she’s ever sought after was her mother’s love. Instead, she has recurring nightmares and a constant fear. Singing allows her to pull from all of the pain and hurt that she’s had to suffer through, and when opportunity comes her way she’s determined to make it. No longer LUCKY, she’ll have to do it on her own. Is Princess able to take it to the next level?
Keisha is struggling to make ends meet. With four kids and a crack addicted husband, she feels stifled and has accepted the fact that she could very well die at the hands of her husband. The police and EMT’s are at her apartment so many times that it’s a natural occurrence like breathing. Shakespeare, her brother in law, encourages her to use her talent to assist her with doing something to change her destiny. Can Keisha finally find herself?
Woo-Woo aka Aleesha is married know! No longer a resident of Bentley Manor, yet, she craves for the affection that Hassan can only offer. Reginald, her husband, is a good man. She no longer has to work. While she has a very different life now, she often muses over her past. She slowly transforms into Aleesha, the suburbia wife with simple hair and make-up; yet she longs to be wild Woo-Woo with extensions in her hair, bamboo earrings, that hood chick with her own flair. However, that’s not the only something missing from Woo-Woo’s life. She longs to be, her real, no longer denying the truth, self. Now can she make that transition?
For the residents living in Bentley Manor the gloom and depravity are somewhat contagious. Everyone has at least reflected on getting out of there. What they need to learn is that where you live doesn’t determine your life. SHAMELESS HOODWIVES infuriates, absorbs and demands. I like the way the story doesn’t swallow the characters and readers get each individualized story from beginning to end.
Takiah does things without thinking them all the way through. She was a hardheaded child, and as an adult, that hasn’t changed. She’s found drugs, selling sex and Kameron, which have been equal contributors to her ruin. Without a second thought, she’s fleeing the coldness offered by D.C., heading home to ATL for Bentley Manor with her grandmother. While she knows that she will have to learn to abide by her grandmother’s rules, there is something bigger and stronger coming with her. Will Takiah finally be able to clean up her act?
Jamilla aka Princess has been blessed with a beautiful voice. Usually quiet and withdrawn, all she’s ever sought after was her mother’s love. Instead, she has recurring nightmares and a constant fear. Singing allows her to pull from all of the pain and hurt that she’s had to suffer through, and when opportunity comes her way she’s determined to make it. No longer LUCKY, she’ll have to do it on her own. Is Princess able to take it to the next level?
Keisha is struggling to make ends meet. With four kids and a crack addicted husband, she feels stifled and has accepted the fact that she could very well die at the hands of her husband. The police and EMT’s are at her apartment so many times that it’s a natural occurrence like breathing. Shakespeare, her brother in law, encourages her to use her talent to assist her with doing something to change her destiny. Can Keisha finally find herself?
Woo-Woo aka Aleesha is married know! No longer a resident of Bentley Manor, yet, she craves for the affection that Hassan can only offer. Reginald, her husband, is a good man. She no longer has to work. While she has a very different life now, she often muses over her past. She slowly transforms into Aleesha, the suburbia wife with simple hair and make-up; yet she longs to be wild Woo-Woo with extensions in her hair, bamboo earrings, that hood chick with her own flair. However, that’s not the only something missing from Woo-Woo’s life. She longs to be, her real, no longer denying the truth, self. Now can she make that transition?
For the residents living in Bentley Manor the gloom and depravity are somewhat contagious. Everyone has at least reflected on getting out of there. What they need to learn is that where you live doesn’t determine your life. SHAMELESS HOODWIVES infuriates, absorbs and demands. I like the way the story doesn’t swallow the characters and readers get each individualized story from beginning to end.
December 19, 2008
This is the first book I've read by these two authors. I loved this book these two authors done so well wouldn't even know who wrote what part of the book or which characters they so much alike in there writing. Now book is based on all these women going though so much drama growing up in Bentley Manor the projects to these ladies. Woo Woo she got out of Bentley Manor by marrying a wonderful man name Reggie that stay in the suburbs but, Woo Woo found her self coming back to have a love feast with Hassan which blows my mind when I found out that Hassan a gal wow. Now Keisha she is a mom to 5 wonderful kids but, she is also a wife to Smokey that is a drug addict to no return. Smokey sells any and everything in the household to suport his habbit. Keisha always had a thang for Smokey brother Shakespear. He put Keisha though hair school and he also fell in love with Keisha. Now Takiah is a addict herself. She takes her and her baby and runs from her husband after a big blow out fight with her husband that lend him to jail. So she moves back to Bentley Manor with her grandmom Miz Cleo. She had to follow her grandmom rules no matter what. That lead her back to church doing only god knows what with the pastor. Now Princess shes a sweet heart. My best character in this book. She went though so much with her mom only carrying about the mens she with to the point the men touching on Princess. Princess can sing her butt off that lend her to have her own record deal. Miz Cleo and Miz Osceola they both are some great women that just trying to watch over Bentley Manor if that means they need to get there bats or there guns they will do so.
Great book overall. Have to totally get "The Hood Life" next for sure.:)
Great book overall. Have to totally get "The Hood Life" next for sure.:)
July 30, 2009
This book had some twists to it. For the life of me I couldn't really remember the first book. It has been so long since I read it. It was a decent read cause I love me some drama.
March 27, 2009
*SOOO GUD MEESHA KAN WRITE HER ASS OFF *
July 19, 2009
I liked it, this one had a good ending unlike desperate hoodwives.
September 21, 2011
again this was funny no vocabulary but a fun read !
November 22, 2015
Good, drama filled book
December 5, 2018
Book one to book 2 cant wait to read 3
Better than any show on tv and any book I’ve read. Totally consuming and illuminating. Must read if I’ve ever read one! Second time around and I still get chills.
Better than any show on tv and any book I’ve read. Totally consuming and illuminating. Must read if I’ve ever read one! Second time around and I still get chills.
March 5, 2019
did not like at all
April 24, 2023
Good. Better than part one but still a typical hood drama
January 13, 2015
The ladies of Bentley Manor are #1 in my book, Sisterhood Book Club Review, February 16, 2010
I had so much fun with these characters it was laughter mixed with a bitter sweet ending for each character. The authors of this book put it down and brought out each individual life as a whole. As their lives unfold before my eyes to come to an ending I wanted more...
From the time she was born she was mistreated by her mother which turned out to be my favorite character. The mother that's there to protect her little girl wasn't on her job. Queen was looking for love in the wrong place, while all the time love was there with Princess. But Queen Choice was to go out and collect men's and let them abuse the only one person that loved her most which is Princess. Though out all the motional and sexual abuse that was going on Princess made it do what do with her best friend Lucky until they was seventeen. That's when the terrible thing happens to Lucky losing her life just by beening a stand by at a fight of two girls. With all the bad luck that Princess is dealt she holds her own and keeps it moving and came out on top with her hell of a voice that took her to the top.
The rest of the characters were old enough to know better, their gain ended in senseless deaths and lives shattered moments that could had been avoided.
I had so much fun with these characters it was laughter mixed with a bitter sweet ending for each character. The authors of this book put it down and brought out each individual life as a whole. As their lives unfold before my eyes to come to an ending I wanted more...
From the time she was born she was mistreated by her mother which turned out to be my favorite character. The mother that's there to protect her little girl wasn't on her job. Queen was looking for love in the wrong place, while all the time love was there with Princess. But Queen Choice was to go out and collect men's and let them abuse the only one person that loved her most which is Princess. Though out all the motional and sexual abuse that was going on Princess made it do what do with her best friend Lucky until they was seventeen. That's when the terrible thing happens to Lucky losing her life just by beening a stand by at a fight of two girls. With all the bad luck that Princess is dealt she holds her own and keeps it moving and came out on top with her hell of a voice that took her to the top.
The rest of the characters were old enough to know better, their gain ended in senseless deaths and lives shattered moments that could had been avoided.
June 11, 2010
Shameless hoodwives was a dramatic novel. Many females tried to escape Bently Manor while some were trapped in it. When faced with the hood many obstacles are thrown at you while you do what you can to survive. In this story there was one girl who couldnt stay away from the hood. It was what made her feel at home. While on the other hand there was another girl who had much talent that she tried to put to use to get out. She had vocals that topped Keyshia Cole or Mary J Blige and everyoone in Bently Mayor new it. Her name was Princess. Her mother went by Queen but they had no tye of relationship. Queen was a drug addict and put every men she could find above her daughter. Princess starved most of the time because the only time she ate was when "Momma had company she filled the fridge" . Princess got the oppertunity to make it big, until her bestfriend died by getting shot. This taught me whenever there is a dream to fulfill take the step dont let anything hold you down even a reputation and dont get close to anyone because nothing last forever. But in the end it might not turn out how you plan.
June 10, 2013
Oh yes! This is a very good read. So drama filled and always something going on at the Bently Manor. Seem like many tales of the projects, where something is always going down. Princess was my favorite. She is the story of many little girls growing up in the projects being left to raise themselves while their mother is living a life of her own and is blind or doesn't care of the company she keeps around her daughter. Lord knows it's women out there who choose men over their children. Princess is the prime example of it not being about where your from, but where your going. Keisha was another success story also, I am glad she had someone to believe in her and help her, cuz I don't think she would have by herself with that husband of her's. They say you start seeing good things happen when you get the negative out of your life. I was so hurt when Takiah died, I had hope for her. Woo Woo was so confused and I felt she could have done more to prevent that situation, but in the end she ended up with no one. I have to get more books from these authors, they know how to keep you glued to the book.
August 9, 2010
I have never lived in the projects, but this story was written in such a way that I could connect with all of the women. There are three projects in my town and a couple rough areas. Knowing what these women go through gives me a level of respect that I never knew I could have. I read through this novel in one sitting. Next chance I get, I'm going out to buy the rest of the bentley manor novels.
February 10, 2012
I am so impressed with this book because the drama keeps going with a whole new set of characters and it's consistent and realistic. There were even parts that surprised me, I honestly didn't see certain things coming and I am usually on point about predicting books well before I finish them. I love both of these books and I am very proud of these two authors because they are renewing my interest in a Genre I almost gave up on.
November 10, 2012
“Shameless Hoodwives,” can connect to today’s society. This book is all about wives in the “hood.” It shows their everyday problems with their husbands. Females in society today go through the same things. There is one wife who is the wife of a man addicted to crack, and they have three kids together. She struggles to get by. She can’t buy her kids toys because her husband will pawn them. “’Did Daddy pawn our Christmas gifts?’”(Mink and Diamond 297)
January 14, 2014
Meesha and De'nesha came together and did their thing! The characters from Bentley Manor never cease to amaze me. The two old women are a force to be reckoned with! LOL I enjoyed the ups and downs of every character. Definitely didn't see that coming about Hasan!!! That was crucial!!! Continue to write great books ladies!
July 31, 2013
The sequel to desperate hood wives. Dayuum! I read this book in less than 24 hours! It was that good!! 10+ stars! This book will keep you gripping the edge of the seat and biting your nails!! Drama drama drama!!
October 15, 2013
This book was action-packed from start to finish. It was so good that I read it in one day because I couldn't put it down. I think this book was way better than the first one in the series, & I can't wait to read the next story. This was a good read & I would definitely recommend.
October 18, 2008
i cant believe i read this. i want my life back after reading this.
i am only kinda into street lit as i have a cousin who is a avid reader of these books.
i am only kinda into street lit as i have a cousin who is a avid reader of these books.
November 9, 2009
this book was ok but they are some stupid girls in this book
February 22, 2010
Another good book from Meesha Mink
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June 14, 2010This book was soooo good that I didn't want to finish!!! I can't read the others to go with it!!
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