A Gangster's Girl

A Gangster's Girl #1

by Chunichi Knott

Meet Ceazia, a very attractive, very good girl who has just left the safety of her parents' home and entered into the world of bad boys and fast money. Ceazia thinks the world belongs to her when she meets Vegas, one of the Tidewater, Virginia area's most notorious drug dealers. Even though a relationship with Vegas goes against everything her parents taught her, she still can't resist his bad boy persona. He's fine, sexy, and ready to give her anything her heart desires—just what the doctor ordered for a broke, wannabe diva. This might just end up being the biggest mistake of her life.

Genres: Urban, Romance, Audiobook, Black Author, African American, Fiction

166 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Since the release of her 2004 debut novel A Gangster’s Girl, Essence Magazine best selling author Chunichi Knott has gone on to pen three additional best selling novels, Married To The Game, The Naked Truth and Return of A Gangster’s Girl.
With more than a half of a million books in print and on the heels of her fifth novel, California Connection, Chunichi’s talent as a writer, combined with her consistent and successful track record speaks for itself.
In addition to her hard work and relentless drive, Chunichi’s rise to the top of the literary world can easily be attributed to the fact that she has lived through the same fast lifestyle of sex, money, drugs, cars, and designer clothes, that she writes about in her books.
The former quiet southern girl from Alabama had her life transformed when she moved to Virginia Beach in her late teens. Dubbed the Urban Diva of literature because of her striking beauty, Chunichi’s stunning looks and Scorpio sex appeal was evident since her teenage years. And she instantly became a magnet for attracting ballers who elevated her social status while introducing her to an intoxicating high-end lifestyle.
That lifestyle transformed the sexy seductress into a gun toting Bonnie who was trained to fire. Chunichi’s fast paced lifestyle soon began to mimic that of a vixen and it included stints as a highly sought after local celebrity as well as her being the spoiled female darling of several NBA and NFL athletes.
Consequently as Chunichi matured, she decided to make a change in the way she was living. Never forgetting her past but making sure to leave the fast life behind, Chunichi went on to pursue and attain her degree in Nursing, while simultaneously putting her real life experiences on paper.
Now a reserved, mysterious beauty, the Urban Diva moves like anthrax, killing the literary scene with books that are sure to keep her on top of the major best seller’s list for years to come.

Reviews

[Diane (IF U'RE PRIVATE, PLEASE SKIP ME!!!) Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read! interesting characters and a thought-out storyline from the first page to the ending..well written also (paperback!)

[Lisa (Remarkablylisa) · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was WILD.

[♥Milica♥ · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was...A LOT. I have no idea how I actually feel about it, because there were so many characters and so much was going on. But the narrator was lovely.

2.5

[bri Monroe · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't know why I Picked this book ..
Maybe it was just something new & I love these type of books , even tho they are basically all the same , with different characters surroundings and what not , I just can't get enough though .
Where as ceazia she has a good life but Vegas made it even better .. Even tho the end he ended up betraying her .
This book jumped around a lot .. That's one of the negatives of it ... So much happened in it to where you just completely forget certain stuff .
Vegas get locked up at one point and C ends up taking over his empire .. Risking her own life & freedom ..
Why ? I don't know .
Vegas gets locked up multiple times ...
And towards the end C ends up convincing him to get out of the game and they end up opening business to supply their money that way ..
The last time Vegas got locked up was because his distributed drugs to an undercover ... He got 2 years ..
Even under the carpet he was still doing C wrong .., he ended up burning her with an disease .., & she thought it was this rasta man she was messing with ...
It was all wrong. Vegas was fucking one of the gaurds In the prison & got caught up ...
Vegas ended up having the rasta man killed and everything pointed back to C .. She ended up getting locked up for involvement with that && that's When I was hot & heated by the situation .. Like , the most messed up thing about it all is she actually didn't know anything about what happened ...
Mikie came back in the picture (a jealous individual that envys C)
And c finds out about vegas infidelity ways && realizes there's no way around it & kills him .. Mickie .. && the other broad that he was having a 3 some with ..
Usually these type of books are good to me .. But this one had to many characters in and out ..
But I do plan on reading some more of her books She is a wonderful artist !

[Charlene (Char) ❤︎ ❀˖° ❤︎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book grabbed me from the first page and it was hard to put down. This book is not your typical hood story. It’s about love , friendship , betrayal and what the drug game does to the ones you love. If you want an entertain read this is the book for you.

[Brianna Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well ive read all four of chunichi's books; A gangsters girl, Married to the Game, The Naked truth, and the Return on the Gansters girl....i tell you ni all of them are good if u havent read them....you betta get up on that

[Sasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Was confuse at the end n ended sadly!

[carolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not sure...

I read this book year's cargo and LOVED it, now it seems dry, stale and rushed. Maybe my taste in hood books have changed, but this wasn't half as good as I remembered.

[Octavia Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book lack so much detail it bores me! 🤷🏽‍♀️.

[Monique · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was a virgin to Chunichi, she busted my damn cherry. I just finished A Gangster’s Girl which is the first book in Chunichi’s Gangster’s Girl Book Series. This book is about a good girl who wants to live her life the way she wants too. Since she decided to go against the grain and not do what her father wanted she got cut off from the stipends she use to receive and had to make money to survive.
I enjoyed A Gangster’s Girl. I listened to the audio book. It kept my attention. I would get home or wherever I would go and I wouldn’t get out the car until the end of the current chapter. If you are looking for a quick read that you will not want to put down this is it. Get A Gangster’s Girl.

[ReadnliftwithShar · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was so chaotic, I just kept shaking my head as the drama unfolded. Lol. I felt like Vegas and Ceazia started out strong but it was never a romantic kind of feel to their story. Ceazia kept finding herself in positions to lose and she never was able to get ahead like she wanted to. Overall, it was a fast paced story that kept me entertained but it was a lot of things happening all at once.

[Valerie Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would’ve rated this 5 stars if 1) there weren’t so many unanswered questions/storylines but this was a damn good read. C lived a crazy life and I honestly felt so bad for her towards the end because she didn’t deserve half of what happened to her. But Vegas was her downfall. Can’t wait for book 2!

[Elise Randall · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was hard to put down. C had been through a lot, things she brought on herself. However she was pretty strong, it's crazy how things ended but now what? Did she go back to prison or was she dreaming?

[Page Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book and the writing style of Chunichi. It feels exactly as intended. As though the people are telling you their stories first hand in a realistic way. She is also very good at keeping it unpredictable. Good book.

[Zhané · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story was seriously all over the place. It didn’t become consistent until right before she went to jail. There were too many back stories on every character and too many unnecessary characters. I finished it nonetheless. I’m salty she killed him at the end I wanted him to suffer lol

[Natea · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a wild ride lol. The narrator was fantastic! SO MUCH HAPPENED I’m kinda speechless lol. I like the pace of this book and i definitely liked Ceazia. Her and Vegas were so good together, so the ending was disappointing.

[LaRhonda · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was short story. I listened to it yesterday and I don't remind what is was about....be back in minute I have to look it up....Oh yea, drug addicts surviving the street life. it was ok.

[Sally Gelder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gangster end

Gripping all the way through but a quick end a tad disappointing to be honest I'm not in a hurry to read another.

[Valencia Coleman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it.

I feel like they could of been epic if he lived and wasn’t cheating all the time. She really did love him. Meikell was jealous of Ceazia from the start.

[leyfeSTYLE · Rating 3 out of 5]

i liked this book but it just felt like it was missing something

[Mercedez Farley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book

[Riss Bee · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was all over the place, no cohesiveness whatsoever.

[sita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nah, the guard was diabolical wtf lmfaooooo

[Tetou Green · Rating 1 out of 5]

couldnt even finish it.

[Raven · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I first started this book I was not into it. But, as the chapter went on, I could not stop listening to it. On to the book 2 cause now I am invested.

[Florida Harris · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF

[Sabrina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the first urban fiction I ever read years ago it was good to reread

[Mo_books · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertainingg and fast paced.
Reads like her journal.
Didn’t know she had it in her.. blinding rage be crazy

[Gia · Rating 1 out of 5]

A Gangster's Girl was definitely a fast-paced read, I read the book in one day and went immediately to Married To The Game. In this book, Ceazia leaves her parents house and somehow ends up becoming an escort, while on her first escort job she meets a man named Vegas Jackson and immediately falls for his looks, their relationship progresses and eventually they are on a mountain surrounded by it all, the money, the cars, the clothes, the jewels. They couldn't be happier, until they are awaken from their fantasy when Vegas is taken to jail, while Vegas is in jail Ceazia still does the drug runs for him so they can keep their money rolling in. But then Ceazia finds out she's having twins, but ends up having a miscarriage and curses God for it. Feeling as though she is alone, she goes to her mother's house and stays with her indefinitely, but Ceazia ends up going to jail but is released by the same lawyer whom she had her first escort job with. By this time Vegas is already out of jail, so Ceazia goes to their house to surprise him, but instead finds him with her "best-friend" and her best friend's lover, she takes a gun and shoots all three of them, and with his dying words Vegas says what he always said, "catch my heart." Ceazia, surprised and not believing what she's just done tries to wake Vegas up, but it is too late.

Married To The Game picks up where A Gangster's Girl left off. A Gangster's Girl was definitely an addictive read, the book had me visualizing the scenes one by one. Chunichi is an amazing writer.

[Ms.Toni · Rating 2 out of 5]

It wasn't that bad, but it wasn't good either. "A Gangster's Girl" is about Ceazia, a high maintenance female that must find a hustle to maintain her lifestyle (of the rich and shameless). That is until she meets Vegas - a young player in the game. And so the story begins. I found the book somewhat confusing in that time changed so much and so fast. The book begins with Ceazia at the age of 25 reflecting back on her life starting at age 21. After that there is no real concept of time. In some chapters weeks or months passed. Chapter 5 ended and chapter 6 begain a whole year later. What happened in that year?!? Character development was lacking. Way too many characters were introduced but not really developed - most of whom played little to no role. I never found myself rooting for, liking, or even hating Ceazia. At one point I really didn't care what happened to her. Despite all of this, I have to give Chunichi props for trying. She has potential and I hope it's made manifest in her next novel.