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Girls from Da Hood #2
Girls from Da Hood 2
Girls From Da Hood 2 is the fast-paced, action-packed follow up to the national best seller Girls From Da Hood.
Girls From Da Hood 2 is the story of Helena, Storm and Keyshawn, three very different young ladies living in Marcy projects who are linked together by one man. His name is Malek Shaw, and he's the best and the worst thing that's happened to each one of them.
Helena Smith's life was on track. She was an A+ student and just voted most likely to succeed in her high school class. She was just about to get out of the ghetto on an academic scholarship until the night of her boyfriend's eighteenth birthday. Now her father's in jail, her mother's abandoned her and she's carrying her boyfriend's brother's child.
All Storm Johnson wanted to do was have her baby and spend the rest of her life with her boyfriend, Malek. That is until she woke up one day to find the police knocking at her door. Now she's being charged with possession of drugs with the intent to distribute, and Malek is nowhere to be found.
Keyshawn Nixon is Malek's old flame. She used to be a prostitute, but now she's left the life and is looking for revenge on Malek, the man who turned her out.
Girls From Da Hood 2 is the story of Helena, Storm and Keyshawn, three very different young ladies living in Marcy projects who are linked together by one man. His name is Malek Shaw, and he's the best and the worst thing that's happened to each one of them.
Helena Smith's life was on track. She was an A+ student and just voted most likely to succeed in her high school class. She was just about to get out of the ghetto on an academic scholarship until the night of her boyfriend's eighteenth birthday. Now her father's in jail, her mother's abandoned her and she's carrying her boyfriend's brother's child.
All Storm Johnson wanted to do was have her baby and spend the rest of her life with her boyfriend, Malek. That is until she woke up one day to find the police knocking at her door. Now she's being charged with possession of drugs with the intent to distribute, and Malek is nowhere to be found.
Keyshawn Nixon is Malek's old flame. She used to be a prostitute, but now she's left the life and is looking for revenge on Malek, the man who turned her out.
283 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2005
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About the author
Nikki Turner
60 books889 followersAfter Nikki Turner read The Coldest Winter Ever by Sistah Souljah she was dismayed that there weren't other books like it. "I wanted to write the kinds of books I wanted to read," said the bestselling author, whose 2002 debut novel, A Hustler's Wife, would go on to sell more than a few 100,000 copies.
While Nikki Turner's first two novels were published by a small publishing house in the Midwest, in 2004 she signed a 2-book deal with One World, an imprint of Ballantine Books, which is part of The Random House Publishing Group. After publishing the first book under that deal, The Glamorous Life in 2005 as well as a short story collection edited by Nikki, Street Chronicles: Tales from da Hood, One World quickly signed Nikki up for three more Nikki Turner Original novels and negotiated a deal with her for her own book line, Nikki Turner Presents. "I want to give new authors the same kind of opportunity I was given," said Nikki. "I want to produce authors who will be household names."
(Taken from author's website)
While Nikki Turner's first two novels were published by a small publishing house in the Midwest, in 2004 she signed a 2-book deal with One World, an imprint of Ballantine Books, which is part of The Random House Publishing Group. After publishing the first book under that deal, The Glamorous Life in 2005 as well as a short story collection edited by Nikki, Street Chronicles: Tales from da Hood, One World quickly signed Nikki up for three more Nikki Turner Original novels and negotiated a deal with her for her own book line, Nikki Turner Presents. "I want to give new authors the same kind of opportunity I was given," said Nikki. "I want to produce authors who will be household names."
(Taken from author's website)
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April 7, 2008
Have you ever felt unwanted, unloved, unattractive, and alone? Well don't, "You repeat these specific words, "I love myself and I don't care what others think of me. I am not unattractive I am worthy to be praised". Chocoate from girls from da hood 2 does. That's what gets her through her days and nights even when she's doing the bump bump with her mom's man Dorsey. Dorsey is a good man and it's just something about him makes Chocolate want to give him her womanhood every chance she gets(especially when mom is working). Well she gave him her womanhood allright, and in the midst of it all her mother finds out as well. What would you do if you found out your daughter was bumping with her stepfather who happens to be your man? What would you really really do? I know I have you interested at this point so go and read Chocolate Girl aka Africa. It is the first short story based out of Girls from Da Hood 2.
The second short story based out of Girls from Da Hood 2. Harmony is a wholesome girl with a lot of spark. Veronica is harmony's mother. She is very overprotective of her daughter and doesn't trust her husband as far as she can throw him. Harmony is a mama's girl, but she is the spitting image of her father Glen. Glen was a good man in Harmony's eyes and did whatever he had to do to keep his family happy howver Veronica is very skeptikal of what her husband may be doing. Harmony has a set of associates that she hangs with in school, but outside of school she knew her mom would not approve of her hanging with them. Especially La-La and Nay-Nay their fathers were dope boys and Kendra father and stepfather have passed away, but not before her stepfather taught her what he knew about sex. If you ask Kendra it was worth it especially when he passed and her mother and her got his pension which was at least 500,000 in her mind he owed her at least that much. Harmony has a 4.0 and headed for college and her so called associates are just headed for a life to no where. Nikko Vosk lost his mother at the age of 4 because she fell in love with another woman whle she was with his father and he lost his father at the age of 17. His dad did in a freak accident where he worked. Nikko knew the importance of school as well because his father pushed him to the end, but he didn't feel he was made for college he was made for the streets. In order for him to gain his quote on quote street knowlege he hooked up with some hard heads around the way who introduced him to Pursey. Pursey was an old time hustler just trying to make a living and a hustle and he took Nikko under his wing to show him the same.
The title of the last story says it all. Hood Rat. The Rat name is Unique and trust and believe she is definitely one of a kind. The hood is Richmond. The begginning of the story starts out in Lockdown. Lockdown is self explanatory and if you watch MSNBC you know what I’m talking about. Unique is serving time form a crime that she said she did not commit. Some big time local cat set her up for the okie doke and she fell for it. In the story you will realize it won’t be the last time she gets caught up in the okie doke. At some point Unique gets to see the fun and sun that she missed for the last couple of years of her life and she also runs into the man that she left for broke, but also considered her soul mate; Took. Took made sure that Unique was taken care of litterally. She made her move on a couple of cats who put her OUT THERE and Took was always around the corner with his boy Train waiting. In the end the story played out and the last thing you should always remember is KARMA is a B****!
The second short story based out of Girls from Da Hood 2. Harmony is a wholesome girl with a lot of spark. Veronica is harmony's mother. She is very overprotective of her daughter and doesn't trust her husband as far as she can throw him. Harmony is a mama's girl, but she is the spitting image of her father Glen. Glen was a good man in Harmony's eyes and did whatever he had to do to keep his family happy howver Veronica is very skeptikal of what her husband may be doing. Harmony has a set of associates that she hangs with in school, but outside of school she knew her mom would not approve of her hanging with them. Especially La-La and Nay-Nay their fathers were dope boys and Kendra father and stepfather have passed away, but not before her stepfather taught her what he knew about sex. If you ask Kendra it was worth it especially when he passed and her mother and her got his pension which was at least 500,000 in her mind he owed her at least that much. Harmony has a 4.0 and headed for college and her so called associates are just headed for a life to no where. Nikko Vosk lost his mother at the age of 4 because she fell in love with another woman whle she was with his father and he lost his father at the age of 17. His dad did in a freak accident where he worked. Nikko knew the importance of school as well because his father pushed him to the end, but he didn't feel he was made for college he was made for the streets. In order for him to gain his quote on quote street knowlege he hooked up with some hard heads around the way who introduced him to Pursey. Pursey was an old time hustler just trying to make a living and a hustle and he took Nikko under his wing to show him the same.
The title of the last story says it all. Hood Rat. The Rat name is Unique and trust and believe she is definitely one of a kind. The hood is Richmond. The begginning of the story starts out in Lockdown. Lockdown is self explanatory and if you watch MSNBC you know what I’m talking about. Unique is serving time form a crime that she said she did not commit. Some big time local cat set her up for the okie doke and she fell for it. In the story you will realize it won’t be the last time she gets caught up in the okie doke. At some point Unique gets to see the fun and sun that she missed for the last couple of years of her life and she also runs into the man that she left for broke, but also considered her soul mate; Took. Took made sure that Unique was taken care of litterally. She made her move on a couple of cats who put her OUT THERE and Took was always around the corner with his boy Train waiting. In the end the story played out and the last thing you should always remember is KARMA is a B****!
December 23, 2008
So far this book is good...Some of the characters in this book will make you go Damn!! and some of the stuff that happens will make you say "that's just WRONG!!"
March 30, 2009
very mouth dropping
October 13, 2009
loved this book, great story.
November 28, 2022
Chocolate by Kashamba: Africa is the daughter of a sugar step daddy and cruel mom who thinks her 16y/o is seducing him the way she once had. Normally, authors would present this problem as a misunderstanding between parent and child or molestation that looks ambiguous, but this one is true. Africa is doing it out of revenge because her mom has always degraded her. When they hook up, it’s hot until we hear typical cringey erotica phrasing like “Dark juice canal,” and “his package of meat,” but I like the bullying bits and incest adjacent themes to give it gravity.
Pace is bullet-train: kicked out at 18 so the mom can salvage her relationship w/ the cheater, working at White Castle, seeking more trad sugar daddies, meeting up w/ her stripper and secretly pimpy MIA cousins (real and colloquial fam). The latter, includes a dude called Rock who thinks he can turn butterface Africa out on a bet. He’s a smooth romancer.
The middle and love and quip of her cousins are great, more realistic than some of the stupid decisions that still are too common. The end and violence is rather overwhelming, a lot of destruction disguised as self love. It’s like the girl has a man’s libido brain and her financial schemes seem to go to well for so many first time ventures. Then double or triple that drama, to where I don’t care as much by last couple chapters.
The next story is by Joy, about Harmony who’s a pretty, budding bookworm that falls for another—not that you’d know it, since he’s turned to fronting hard since his belittling dad died. It’s a little too fluffy with the teen dream lightness so I give up after a few chapters, when I want more humor, hotness, and/or quick uniqueness.
Nikki Turner pens the last story “Once a Hood Rat, Always.” Kitty killed an Atlanta man to protect hers after a sideways drug deal. Unique (a character from her last book) is her prison mate. “Fingering her fish market,” I’m dead, WTF. Conning their way to freedom, multi-level man-ipulation with baby mama drama, sugar baby life-styling,, “bisexual” users, aka coke and heroin partakers. Club hookups, though I wish the characters were a bit livelier in voice than hard. The end is a good twist, maybe will lead to a better story.
Pace is bullet-train: kicked out at 18 so the mom can salvage her relationship w/ the cheater, working at White Castle, seeking more trad sugar daddies, meeting up w/ her stripper and secretly pimpy MIA cousins (real and colloquial fam). The latter, includes a dude called Rock who thinks he can turn butterface Africa out on a bet. He’s a smooth romancer.
The middle and love and quip of her cousins are great, more realistic than some of the stupid decisions that still are too common. The end and violence is rather overwhelming, a lot of destruction disguised as self love. It’s like the girl has a man’s libido brain and her financial schemes seem to go to well for so many first time ventures. Then double or triple that drama, to where I don’t care as much by last couple chapters.
The next story is by Joy, about Harmony who’s a pretty, budding bookworm that falls for another—not that you’d know it, since he’s turned to fronting hard since his belittling dad died. It’s a little too fluffy with the teen dream lightness so I give up after a few chapters, when I want more humor, hotness, and/or quick uniqueness.
Nikki Turner pens the last story “Once a Hood Rat, Always.” Kitty killed an Atlanta man to protect hers after a sideways drug deal. Unique (a character from her last book) is her prison mate. “Fingering her fish market,” I’m dead, WTF. Conning their way to freedom, multi-level man-ipulation with baby mama drama, sugar baby life-styling,, “bisexual” users, aka coke and heroin partakers. Club hookups, though I wish the characters were a bit livelier in voice than hard. The end is a good twist, maybe will lead to a better story.
March 16, 2020
Hood
March 18, 2024
Ok. These stories were ok. The story about Harmony was hard to listen too. My heart was breaking at the thought of this straight A girl becoming a crackhead.
April 3, 2015
This book was pretty good , 3 short stories combined into one book.
The best one I would say was w/ harmony.
Africa was a little Ditzy bitch who made multiple enemies while trying to get loved by a no good ass nigga. She was the backstabbing type after ahe had slept with her mother husband .
Harmony: she was a little ditsy white girl that was rich and wanted to be a part of the black community so bad . When she gets hooked to a big time hustler named nikko and he gets her to do a couple lines of coke everything goes down from there . Her and nikko relationship was rocky but I loved it .. And It even made me cry she was just graduating high school and everything was going down hill for her .
Unique: this was the second part from girls from da hood ... She was a little hood rat but she ended up getting out of jail on bond from took her once love .., things were suppose to go back to normal you would think by the way they all acted towards unique..
Unique ended up doing the same old same old fucking hustlers over , she had major numbers and folks on her head for days ..
And to be honest I feel sorry for her . But Karma is a mf & she got what she deserved .
Would i recommend this book ? Of course . It will teach you something .
The best one I would say was w/ harmony.
Africa was a little Ditzy bitch who made multiple enemies while trying to get loved by a no good ass nigga. She was the backstabbing type after ahe had slept with her mother husband .
Harmony: she was a little ditsy white girl that was rich and wanted to be a part of the black community so bad . When she gets hooked to a big time hustler named nikko and he gets her to do a couple lines of coke everything goes down from there . Her and nikko relationship was rocky but I loved it .. And It even made me cry she was just graduating high school and everything was going down hill for her .
Unique: this was the second part from girls from da hood ... She was a little hood rat but she ended up getting out of jail on bond from took her once love .., things were suppose to go back to normal you would think by the way they all acted towards unique..
Unique ended up doing the same old same old fucking hustlers over , she had major numbers and folks on her head for days ..
And to be honest I feel sorry for her . But Karma is a mf & she got what she deserved .
Would i recommend this book ? Of course . It will teach you something .
October 15, 2010
I think That Africa's mom was wrong for choosen her boyfriend over her owne daughter. Africa could have made better choices in her life Africa should have stady with her dad when her mom left her all along becaused he was the one that really cared about her Africa was worng for talking to her cusins boyfriend when her cusin was trying to help her out. Africa could have done better by chosing a boyfriend that really cared about her because the one shye was with didnt care about her at all he had her doing bad things that could have been avoided if should would have stayd with her dad or listened to her cusin.I say if your really into Drama books i say your should read this booik but read the first one befor you get to this one its really intresting.
10/15/10
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10/15/10
7thprd
May 12, 2015
I liked parts of the book, I couldn't get with story about Africa,, Harmony need to get her shit together n stop living a double life, and I see Ms.Turner brought back Unique,you would think that after all she went through n going to jail would've have changed her ways but not her, Took used her up and took advantage of her then left her ass for dead
September 29, 2009
it is a good book with alot of true things going on. i think who ever wrote this book should get an award because they have a good out look on life and the hood we grow up in. most people dont get it but i think this author does.
June 24, 2010
Wow the authors who wrote this short story left nothing for their readers to be happy about except the last story, are females that incompetent? I didn't read about one smart chick, not to mention they were all gutter snipes.
April 6, 2011
i really liked the book it was a good read no doubt but unique's part don't want to ruin it 4 n e 1 n tell y i didn't like just that i was waiting to see her gt it popin n it didn't really happ. like i wanted to.... other than that i'd give it a 5 star rating...
February 8, 2013
I actually have this novel at home. I am IN LOVE with this book. It has three stories in one. Each one has a very interesting plot and theme. I would recommend this book anyone loves drama and street matters, crazy lifestyle situations and much more.
November 23, 2007
i liked the last story of the book i did not read part 1 or 3 yet
November 11, 2009
DAT SHORT STORY THERE NEEDS TOO BE LONGER BUT AFTER ALL THE BOOK WAS GREAT...
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January 4, 2010waiting ob SuSie to return back to me
January 11, 2010
OMG! the last story in here ended so messied up that i had to even tell my husband to read it. Very good book, i finished this in a few days
May 5, 2013
2.5 stars
December 14, 2010
O.K. ! ♥
January 23, 2013
A good read
June 27, 2022
Very good read! I especially liked the 2nd and 3rd stories. I didn't care for the 1st story too much because Africa was too naive.
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January 21, 2014Best book of them all.
July 15, 2016
This book had me very angry!!! These women were misled!!! Great read!!!!
October 8, 2012
Its a very very good book to read
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