Triple Take Book

I was originally going to give this book 2 stars for effort and an interesting plot idea. But finding myself engrossed in it by the end, I bumped it up to a 3.

There are some twists and turns that may seem to sort of nullify the proposed point of the book. But it's still a good read. My main problem was not with the storytelling, but with the writing. I'm not sure if it's characteristic of urban fiction novels to constantly switch street language to dictionary words. The result is writing that sounds forced, like the thesaurus had too significant of a place during the writing process. But judging by the creativity of the novel, especially for his first book, I believe the author was selling himself short. I'm guessing he wanted to stay as true as possible when it came to telling the characteristics of an ex-con from the hood. As good of a storyline as this was, I believe it could have been better if he had expanded a little more on the characters.

This is the first urban fiction book I've read. I look forward to reading more. I think this was a good first pick. I'm don't really enjoy reading so many curse words, but the overall depiction of someone trying to go from rags to riches (or in this case, someone seeking to settle an unfair score) is a story I enjoy hearing about.