| Title | : | Hustling on the Down Low |
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| ISBN | : | 162286560X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781622865604 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 |
| Publication | : | Published June 27, 2017 |
Avery has faced adversity most of his life, and being a gay black male only adds fuel to the fire already burning within him. After experiencing rejection for so much of his life, Avery has stopped caring about the values of anyone who makes him feel insignificant. Crime and violence are now his preferred method for getting the city’s attention. He wants everyone to see that being gay isn’t a weakness but a strength.
Leroy Grant does not want to see a gay man in charge, especially since in his mind, he is supposed to be where Avery is. A hatred grows inside of him with every mention of Avery and the moves he’s making in the streets. Now Leroy’s singular mission is to take the top spot for himself.
With so much violence and hate, there is no way to tell who will be Baltimore’s kingpin and who will be headed to the pen. Who is willing to go down the lowest to get to the top?
Hustling on the Down Low Reviews
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This book was so good ! Two drug kingpins run their operations with a firm and hard fist although they have differ t preferences with the opposite sex. I enjoyed this book and love how the author woven a really good tale. If you have to read to see how the book ends.
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Great story, very well written. Some parts were predictable but still have several plot twist. I greatly enjoyed the story.
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First read from this author. I enjoyed the story and looking forward to reading more of the authors work.
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If this thing were to be more atrociously written, it should have come printed over toilet paper in venomous ink. Let a few samples be enough to unmask the sheer carnel house Mr Pope takes his reader through between those covers, beginning with the very incipit:
"there was a cold silence in the room. Only the breath that entered and exited the bodies of those in the room could be heard. Fear had made its way in the room as well. I sat in the shadows and spoke from the darkness that covered my identity. Several other people were in the room, but they were irrelevant now. We were at a secret location that was in the middle of the city"
"they had to be good in bed in their prospective positions in bed"
"when I first had my suspicions, I put him in the room that I use for testing a person to see if a person is who he says he is
"I loved the show and got some good nuts out of the positive outcomes"
"they brought me great pleasure to look at them"
"my guy taunted him like he was a bull. The guy didn’t hesitate and threw a blow that landed and could be heard. But my guy didn’t even flinch. Instead, he laughed.
One of my other men repeated the last scene with the same results, leaving the guy baffled and angry, so he charged one my men, and then the inevitable happened"
"they commenced to continue their show and paid me no mind" (a gem few people would be benighted enough to perpetrate, yet one that did make it through the proof-reading).
Homophobia is pervasive, too:
"dick and ass had no face, and most men would fuck or be fucked by anything that could pleasure them. Most lied and said they had standards, but they didn’t. Many would let you poke them in any hole, including a nostril"
"real men should be running this city, not these he-shes"
Last but not least, the POV are all over the place, granting us lurid insight into a cast of characters that gives new meaning to the epiths "ill-conceived" and "moronic" and "cardboard".
This looks like a first draft of a first novel written under the influence of LSD, yet Mr Pope has already several books under his belt - they cannot have been even remotely tolerable in terms of standards of finish, if he is still unable to do better than this. -
Not what I was expecting. I didn't read the synopsis of book or any reviews so I was surprised by the spin on the story line. I was very interesting. Not sure if there's a sequel but I would like to see what happens next with the young hustler.
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Good ending
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I read the book in two days...but I really enjoyed it I'm hoping for a part 2
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I enjoyed this book. the storyline held my interest from beginning to end.
