Kiss The Ring: An Urban Tale
Meesha Mink.
S&S/Touchstone, Aug 5 2014, $14.99
ISBN 9781476755304
An out of control hellion as a teen on the streets of Newark; as
an adult Naeema Cole has become a law abiding model citizen working at a
neighborhood barbershop. However, Naeema
learns that four gangbangers hunted down like a rabies dog and murdered her fourteen
year old son Brandon Mack who had been part of a bank robbing gang. Filled with guilt as she gave him up for
adoption knowing that as a wild unsweetened sixteen with no prospects she could
not raise a child nor wanted too; she simply vows vengeance.
Naeema needs to get inside the gang, but cannot do so as her
responsible adult self. She needs to
return to who she was just after her parents died when she was a wild tweener
and teen, but a mature adult version.
Thus she becomes siren “Queen” stalking her child’s killers and, though
attracted to the brutal chieftain, wants his head too.
The key to Meesha Mink’s powerful gritty urban thriller (see the
author’s Real
Wifeys series) is the protagonist who will remind readers of a
modern day Scarlet Pimpernel as the heroine smartly struggles with good motives
to keep the lifestyles of Naeema and Queen apart. The gripping storyline is filled with depth
due to each of the gangbangers boasting to the sexy seductress on what went
down. Kiss The Ring is a strong street
lit avenging mama drama.
Harriet Klausner
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