Girls from da Hood 12

The Girls from da Hood Series, Book 12

By: Treasure Hernandez, Katt, Paradise Gomez, Buck 50 Productions

Narrated by: Mea Wilkerson, Stevie Washington, Ida Belle

Urban Books' popular Girls from da Hood series continues its gritty street drama in this twelfth installment, featuring urban fiction superstar Treasure Hernandez and rising stars Katt and Paradise Gomez.

"Short Stacks" by Treasure Hernandez: Honey has been working them streets for El-Jihad, selling his wares and keeping up her end of the bargain. He warned it was "three strikes and you're out", and she has already come up short twice. Now Honey and her goons meet up with DeAngelo, who refuses to pay back his loan. If she can't come up with El-Jihad's money within days, it will be her head on a platter.

"Street Life Johnny's in Love" by Katt: Strawberry has been a rather lucrative ho for Larry "Sir" Smalls; however, she's been at it for a minute, and it is starting to have an effect on her mind and body. When she meets up with an old high school friend, Sir beats her nearly to death. Her friend rescues her, but will Sir let her go without a fight?

"Payback" by Paradise Gomez: Jackie spent 15 years in the state pen for stabbing the fool that had the audacity to put his hands on her. Now she's home, trying to turn her life around, but it's hard to get a job as a violent ex-con. Her aunt, the powerful queen of a drug cartel, turns up and takes her in. Soon, an all-out war between the aunt and the fool who put her in prison breaks out. Will Jackie resort to the same violence that got her locked up?

©2018 Treasure Hernandez, Katt, and Paradise Gomez (P)2018 Blackstone Publishing and Urban Audiobooks

love it

great listen, feels like your right there. keep up the great work! great job my boy

I definitely want a longer version

I thought all the books were good...
but the reader for the first book made we want to pull my hair out. I have to keep her nane inind when i down loading books.. other than her .. this was a good book.

good book overall

The first reader was just horrible all of the characters she reads sounds the same several times I had to stop, take a breather in order to get threw it. But my hopes is that she gets better

1st reader What the heck

The 1st story was good but the reading was making me dizzy it’s like the reader was going up and down with her tempo like it was her first time reading anything ever.

1st narrator horrible but all the stories great

1st narrator horrible but all the stories were really good! actually focusing on boss females

Typical

I need a new genre . These all end the same. I guess you take it with a grain of salt. Learned who or what not to be or do..

First narrator

All the books I’ve listened to thus far had me sitting on the edge of my seat, but this narrator was in other books almost made me want to stop listening. She very “spacey” when reading. She can’t pronounce certain words. She so lucky I’m the nosiest and wanted to hear the end.

Hooked

this was the best one of the hood series. It had a lot of action.

Narrators could've done better

Great story lines but the narrators mispronounced several words and it took away from the overall performance especially narrator number 1.

One of the best in series

Girls 12
Short stacks by Treasure (my fav street lit author) Honey is the skirt-suited, heroin-fronting heroine for deadbeat El-Jihad and D’Angelo. She’s got a Glock to his temple yet he’s brazen enough to spit on her white designer heels when it’s his gambling habits that brought him there.

Sweet girl Tari gets mixed up w/ gangsters ma’s cancer treatment and wig business. Her friend Honey is the same but more cocksure and experienced, wanting to graduate away from her seedy step dad. There’s a lot of gun training, cute female friendship while splurging and saving each other.

The next audio story is funnily narrated by what sounds like an older white man than a young latina working a trick. Real explicit and I can’t not imagine a guido Bill Maher instead of an eager escort. That’s worth listening to alone for the laughs. MC goes by Strawberry and it follows her and her pimp, Sir. He’s all she’s known so under his spell until he sends her to the hospital. She’s been reluctant to let people from her past life find about her out of embarrassment and safety but Javier is respectful and even builds a confidante relationship with her. Despite the awkward erotic opening, the tone becomes very sweet and light with kids cheering on their romance. That is not to say things don’t get tense again, sentimental in an intense way as well. The elderly Consuela voice does kinda dampen the mood though and ends kinda abrupt—maybe leaving it open for a part two.

The last story has fantastic voice, a girl played by bloody kingpin DeMarcus, saying, “How’s he gonna cheat on me with a girl with a crooked weave?” She is adoring until she tracks down his deceit, and finds him twice as cruel as she imagined—he even pins the abuse he deals her into somehow being attempted murder on him. My only gripe is how quickly her 15 yr prison sentence is glossed over (which why would it even be that much when she would’ve had physical evidence, probably good behavior, and just being a young also wealthy woman?).

Anyway, she’s still optimistic though unforgiving when her barren aunt renters her free life, who wants to home her. More than that, she reveals she was heavily involved with Demarcus’s sweet dad who left her his Texas coke empire, hence why Demarcus started to resent the MC so heavily. Again, IDK why if that was the case she didn’t bail out her favorite niece AT ALL. Nonetheless, the dynamic becomes fast pace and fun with her becoming a pampered soldier to knock off Demarcus in the long run. The humor is good too, her trainer Marco poking fun about her age or the MC always wanting to get food instead of fight opps. Or when she’s like hell no I didn’t lez out in prison—girls serviced /me though. The pace of this story is an odd choice though, always year skips when you expect the action just to start. This book is one of the best in the series though, every piece solid, the writing filled in minus the occasional “music to my ears” cliche. Endings can be bittersweet but realistic in that way.