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Brooklyn Girls #1
Magic Touch
Treasure Hernandez returns with Magic Touch!
Simone "Simmy" James never had it easy. When her father's drug operation, one of the biggest on the East Coast, was dismantled, Simone lost both of her parents to the system--her father to a life sentence, and her mother to a 25-year sentence. Gone were the days of luxury cars, high-end clothes, and jewelry that Simmy had grown accustomed to.
Forced to live in overcrowded conditions in her grandmother's house, Simmy has to learn how to make money any way she can, and her cousin Jayla is happy to show her the art of high-end boosting. Things run smoothly for a while, until Jayla is arrested. In Jayla's absence, Simmy is forced to go out on her own.
Simmy is such an amateur that she gets knocked right away. Before she can contact anyone to come get her, she learns that her bail has been miraculously paid by a stranger named Alexander Stephenson.
Alex has several lucrative businesses--high-level boosting, counterfeit checks, credit card scamming, identity theft, and drug trafficking. Simmy feels like she has no choice but to join Alex's team, but she soon learns that fast money is a huge magnet for drama in the form of jealousy, betrayal, and violence.
Simone "Simmy" James never had it easy. When her father's drug operation, one of the biggest on the East Coast, was dismantled, Simone lost both of her parents to the system--her father to a life sentence, and her mother to a 25-year sentence. Gone were the days of luxury cars, high-end clothes, and jewelry that Simmy had grown accustomed to.
Forced to live in overcrowded conditions in her grandmother's house, Simmy has to learn how to make money any way she can, and her cousin Jayla is happy to show her the art of high-end boosting. Things run smoothly for a while, until Jayla is arrested. In Jayla's absence, Simmy is forced to go out on her own.
Simmy is such an amateur that she gets knocked right away. Before she can contact anyone to come get her, she learns that her bail has been miraculously paid by a stranger named Alexander Stephenson.
Alex has several lucrative businesses--high-level boosting, counterfeit checks, credit card scamming, identity theft, and drug trafficking. Simmy feels like she has no choice but to join Alex's team, but she soon learns that fast money is a huge magnet for drama in the form of jealousy, betrayal, and violence.
240 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2017
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February 2, 2020
Great 📖
This was a really good book. Simone was really going through it. Alex was plum crazy, I hope Kyan ready for him cause he coming. Ready for part 2.
This was a really good book. Simone was really going through it. Alex was plum crazy, I hope Kyan ready for him cause he coming. Ready for part 2.
May 10, 2018
The premise was fine. A teenage girl who lives with her grandmother (after her parents incarceration) and other random family members gets herself caught up.
Nice that the protagonist was from the islands.
I do think I pick up Treasure Hernandez's books from time to time thinking either a) It's Treasure Blue or b) Thinking they'll get better.
This one was actually one of her (his?) better ones.
Simmy downward spirals after her cousin Jayla gets locked up. She had been kicked out of her grandmothers house. Her boyfriend Kyan then also gets arrested and jailed.
So she's on her own and ripe for being picked by Alex. Who is someone that she should never hook up with. And the story goes.
Nice that the protagonist was from the islands.
I do think I pick up Treasure Hernandez's books from time to time thinking either a) It's Treasure Blue or b) Thinking they'll get better.
This one was actually one of her (his?) better ones.
Simmy downward spirals after her cousin Jayla gets locked up. She had been kicked out of her grandmothers house. Her boyfriend Kyan then also gets arrested and jailed.
So she's on her own and ripe for being picked by Alex. Who is someone that she should never hook up with. And the story goes.
January 3, 2018
Simmy was looking for love but in the wrong places and it seems like everything bad always happen to her her parents locked up,cousin (Kayla) & ex bf (Kyan) locked up and Mummy Pat. Glad Kyan back can't wait for part 2 Alex and Kyan the war is on.
March 29, 2018
This book was really good it was very fast pace. I felt so sorry for Simone in the beginning because nobody really liked her until her cousin can and taught her the game and hooked her up with all those nice clothes and money it was nice but all things always come with a price. Jayla knee that her cousin was naïve to the game so basically she used her for her own gain. That’s all I’m going to say if you want to know the rest you have to read the book. You won’t be disappointed at all.
February 5, 2018
Great page turner!!
I couldn't put the book down! It was so easy to get list in. Can't wait for book number 2.
I couldn't put the book down! It was so easy to get list in. Can't wait for book number 2.
March 5, 2018
Seemed like another author's take on Sistah Souljah's Coldest Winter Ever with different names but the same storyline...
March 15, 2018
Not sure what I just read - blah.
March 31, 2019
I’m so ready for part 2.👏🏽Very good fast paced read!
January 19, 2020
Very face paced read. I listened to it in one day. It seems like I missed something. It seemed like everything happened in one day. The plot was so rushed, and the characters were under developed.
June 16, 2018
good book. finished in one day. waiting for the 2nd book
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