Ashley Coleman
Autore di The Cartel
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Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Ashley Coleman (Ashley Antoinette) is often credited as 'Ashley' or as part of a duo 'Ashley and JaQuavis'. JaQuavis is her husband and is a separate author. Do not combine Ashley with the Ashley and JaQuavis author page.
Fonte dell'immagine: Author publicity photo, Ashley & Jaquavis
Serie
Opere di Ashley Coleman
Butterfly 5 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Coleman, Ashley Antoinette
- Altri nomi
- Antoinette, Ashley
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Relazioni
- Coleman, JaQuavis (husband)
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Ashley Coleman (Ashley Antoinette) is often credited as 'Ashley' or as part of a duo 'Ashley and JaQuavis'. JaQuavis is her husband and is a separate author. Do not combine Ashley with the Ashley and JaQuavis author page.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 57
- Utenti
- 1,142
- Popolarità
- #22,481
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 26
- ISBN
- 334
- Lingue
- 2
I quickly realized I wasn’t going to like it, but when I found it on audio through the digital library, I decided to stick with it. Cary Hite is a good reader, except for when he’s trying to do accents (they all sounded Jamaican to me, whether it was someone from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, or Barbados), and he reads slowly enough that I could bump the speed to 1.5 and he still sounded fine.
I didn’t know what exactly to expect. The violence was no surprise, but I was shocked by how extreme it was. The frequent explicit and ickily-described sex scenes bothered me even more. I think I’m used to a lot more euphemism from other books I’ve read with sexy stuff.
At first, I thought the criminals (all the main characters) were being portrayed as heroes, and maybe some of them were supposed to be. I think Young Carter was. But more than anything, the book is a tragedy, with a major Romeo and Juliet vibe in Young Carter and Miamor’s relationship. Although certain aspects were hard to swallow as plausible, it was very realistic in the sense that no one was safe in the murder-infused lifestyle these characters lived.
I did actually care about some of the characters by the end, but I couldn’t stand the writing, especially the sex scenes. It was also annoyingly materialistic. No one could just put on a jacket or a dress or get in a car. We had to be told the brand name of everything or be pointed to how expensive the cars were.
One scene that made me smile was when two of the younger characters went to Borders to buy books. It was moment of sweet innocence in the midst of hatred and revenge. Plus, Borders.
I’m glad to have finally read something in this genre, since I’ve been curious about it for years, but I doubt I’ll be checking out anything else like it any time soon.… (altro)