Brooklyn - Tracy Brown

Brooklyn

By Tracy Brown

  • Release Date: 2024-02-27
  • Genre: Black Literature
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 24 Ratings

Description

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn’t who murdered her; the question is who wouldn’t?

Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became.

Brooklyn learned the art of hustling from her parents who used the church to get money. Idolizing her father and despising her mother, Brooklyn’s determined to be the type of woman who makes her own rules. When her back’s up against the wall, she sacrifices her family, takes the burnt offering that remains, and runs away. In NYC, young Brooklyn charms her way into the inner circle of hustlers and stick-up kids, learning tricks along the way. She catches the eye of a major player in the drug game, Hassan, and they have a breathless love affair. Brooklyn becomes integrated into his operation, earning the trust of Hassan and his associates. But when she gets the keys to the kingdom, driven by unfettered ambition and a ruthless desire to survive, Brooklyn snatches the pot of gold, leaving bitter retribution promises behind her.

From DC to Maryland, Brooklyn burns bridges and breaks hearts. What she doesn't realize is that someone is prepared to end her reign of terror. As she faces her killer and her fate, Brooklyn’s stunned that justice comes from the least likely place.

Reviews

  • Brooklyn is the new Winter

    3
    By Ciana C.
    Brooklyn is PK that bucks authority, because she believes church is nothing but racket and a ploy to get money every Sunday. Her father Pastor James loves his children, and the parishioners of the female persuasion (side-eye). But her mother, First Lady James, is the devil dressed in a designer church suit and hat, extremely critical of her kids and completely untrusting of Brooklyn. Brooklyn grows up with the mantra with Morality is flexible, and so at 17 years old Brooklyn is living a double life one life as pastor’s daughter and good student, the other flashy designer laced drug dealer’s girlfriend. Brooklyn is now a woman “in the life” I.e. a hustler, grinding to make money and getting her hands dirty. She is ruthless but not a fighter, she keeps a black eye. However, Brooklyn becomes addicted to the fast life until she loses everything and turns everyone against her. Her only option to return to Staten Island as the prodigal daughter, only to meet her demise. It’s giving coldest winter ever vibes, but the narrative is a bit rushed, we moving ahead with a lot of action, little context. However I appreciate that we hear all the characters thoughts, everyone that Brooklyn interacts we are able to hear their thoughts and views of her and whiles she is beautiful is very unlikable.

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