Review: Not my cup of tea! No one to like. Lacks romance as well.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2012
I'm going to say spoiler alert up front!!!  Don't read any further because my review isn't pretty. Give me one person that believes in college, working and a life free of crime because they do exist within our community.DMitri is a kingpin in NY. He was sent up state for murder for a while at a young age for helping to save another kingpin. At the time he was dating a college girl who was pregnant with his daughter, Nzinga. His wife dies leaving him with Nzinga.No one is likable to me. DMitri is a stone killer and extortionist. Even Nzinga is a thug at 17. She's a killer too. His brother, Michael is also a thug but prefers to sell dope for his money.  No one is alright except his mother, Elizabeth, who accepts them being in the game.DMitri doesn't sell dope, he's too noble for that, now killing is another thing. For someone to now want to kill DMitri was odd since he killed and extorted so many. There is no way he could last as long as he has doing his type of dirt.When your a kingpin don't you give the word for the hits instead of doing them?The use of "dis", the N word, and other bad grammar in the conversation is accurate for our people but this book is a bit much. Like I said its just not my cup of tea.  Grammar wise the book is okay, but the author uses bad grammar and Ebonics in the quoted conversations.I didn't get the love interest for DMitri, Isis.  They met at around the halfway mark of the book. I didn't feel romance between them. Also Isis had a brother Isaac who died because of the dope game and she hates that life, but she doesn't really fight DMitri about this. She stays with him.I like to give books a chance but I couldn't get into this one even up until the end.I can't wait for all of them to go to jail on a R.I.C.O. indictment by the Feds. This book is a little too much. Probably my worst review ever.The book leaves us with part II coming as DMitri and his brother Michael fight it out over their mother.  No happy endings in this one. Brother's hate each other as well.