2 out of 4 stars
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Boobie Boys: Miami’s Urban Chronicles Volume II by Thomas Barr Jr. is an urban literary fiction published by VIP INK Publishing Group, Inc./PrintHouse Books on May 15, 2017. The book has 32 standard pages (250 words per page), and the language mostly used in it is Ebonics (African American English). The book employs gangster slang. Examples of forms of expression you are going to encounter are:
This book candidly paints the common motives and predicaments of people perpetrating greed and other wrongdoings every day. Are the governments involved in probing the Miami youths along this perilous road? This book is a perfect mirror of the times in which we live. This book expounds the genres of guns, (illusion of) power, (illicit) drugs, deception, death, ambition, and lust.Chop it up (to have a conversation), giving of dabs (knocking of fist together as a form of greeting, or form of respect), run with (associate habitually with someone or something), and a kee (a kilogram/about 2.2 pounds of a narcotic).
Kaz is in prison and waiting for a month to pass and get released. He is a thoughtful and bright man who picks up tricks from career criminals. He joins forces with Beebee, a reckless and ruthless ringleader of the Boobie Boys crew, to expand their dope (narcotics) connections. Kaz develops a relationship with a lady called Tanisha. A number of deadly assaults plague Miami as their plans progress.
The streets get bloodier as rival gangs fight for turfs. Rumors of snitches and undercover affiliates begin to make rounds in the streets. Soon the FBI and DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) begin to clamp down on their operations. Will Kaz and his friends get out of the drug dealing underworld before it is too late?
There were rapid movements of scenes that were a bit odd to me but good for efficiently moving the plot along. The author has an obvious knowledge of the happenings of the crime-infested regions of America and uses it to spin an entertaining and realistic story. The characters were fairly developed and the relationships between them somewhat unexplored. The ending of the book was great and caught me off guard with its twist. The short length of the book and the great storytelling kept me reading to the end without episodes of boredom. I found it was a smooth sailing through the simple storyline.
This book has employed various vulgar words to help pass the ugly but true message of the world we live in. The ladies are depicted in a number of scenes as scantily or suggestively dressed, and nude or seminude. These are true depictions of the reality we live in.
There were a number of editing errors in the 81 pages of the PFD e-book I was given: page 11, “…the smoke from the joint bellowed from his noise [nose],” page 45, “…until everyone [was] had departed…,” page 55, “…two man [men].” Even though the errors are considerable, they don’t make it difficult to understand the plot. I gave the book a rating of 2 out of 4 stars because of the aforementioned flaws. I recommend it to those who love urban fiction and the dark happenings in ganglands.
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