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Flint
A Girl From Flint
Hustling men for their money has always come easy for Tasha. Hailing from New York and raised by a junkie mother, she had to learn early how to use her beauty to her advantage. Tasha thinks she's seen it all on the streets of New York, but when she follows a childhood friend to the little city of Flint, Michigan, she realizes that sometimes the smallest cities breed the grimiest of individuals.
When Tasha and her friends link up with Manolo, one of Flint's known stick-up kids, they take the hustlers of Flint for all they're worth. Any man who falls for a pretty face is a target, and under the guidance of Manolo, the girls quickly learn the game of manipulation and deceit. They become known as The Manolo Mamis, and their skills gain them thousands of dollars in no time.
Tasha is living the life of the young and fly, but when tragedy strikes and the stakes are raised, she has to choose between loyalty and self-sacrifice. When the only man she's ever loved becomes her target, will she decide to save him, or will she remain loyal to The Manolo Mamis?
When Tasha and her friends link up with Manolo, one of Flint's known stick-up kids, they take the hustlers of Flint for all they're worth. Any man who falls for a pretty face is a target, and under the guidance of Manolo, the girls quickly learn the game of manipulation and deceit. They become known as The Manolo Mamis, and their skills gain them thousands of dollars in no time.
Tasha is living the life of the young and fly, but when tragedy strikes and the stakes are raised, she has to choose between loyalty and self-sacrifice. When the only man she's ever loved becomes her target, will she decide to save him, or will she remain loyal to The Manolo Mamis?
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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April 16, 2010
In reality I can't lie, this book was a decent read but it pissed me the hell off,, I still can't figure for the life of me why the character in this book named Tasha did half of the things she did, I SWEAR if these women don't wake the hell up and stop loving men more then they love themselves they are in for a rude awakening, this broad took care of other people before taking care of herself, as selfish as that may seem, it is the hard truth, first of all she risked her life for a woman whom was not her real mother even though I get the fact she took her in and treated Tasha as if she were her own daughter, but what I don't' get is why she worked harder at trying to save this woman's life more than her own blood daughter did, not to mention this cat she fell in love with who supposedly loved her, didn't show her that same loyalty when the shit hit the fan. What a waste.. I read the Epilogue, and from my understanding of it, she plans to continue her ways. She has a high school diploma and the only thing she can think of is hustling men out of their money. All I can say to that is I guess this broads life was doomed in the womb..
December 31, 2019
I just wanted these hoes to be better than their situations I’m mad I even finished this
If you gonna rob niggas why do it in the same city you live in ???? These women were a piece of work
If you gonna rob niggas why do it in the same city you live in ???? These women were a piece of work
June 15, 2016
This book wasn't horrible. The premise might have worked. The characters could have been fleshed out. There really wasn't any cohesion and it felt rushed. What happened to Tasha's mother? All that, coupled with a few grammatical errors made it just an OK read.
July 2, 2011
Good read, but if I would advise future readers to read this book first before reading Flint book 1: Choosing Sides, versus last it just make more since.
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December 17, 2012ook Review for November
Karma is like a rubber band, you can only stretch it so far until it comes back and smacks you in the face! You may think think you’re getting away with the things that you do such as stealing clothes from the mall or simply stealing money from your mom’s purse but no matter how long you do bad things and get away with it, it’ll catch up with you eventually.
The word “Karma” absolutely applies to people like Tasha, Amra, Honey and MiMi. These four girls are known as the Manola Mami’s who worked for a guy named Manolo who trains them to use their beautiful looks, personalities and sexual ways to trick men out of their money. Tasha, Honey and were born and raised in New York as sisters. Amra’s mother adopted Tasha after realizing that Tasha’s mother Lisa, was a drug addict and allowing men to have sex with Tasha so she can pay them for the drugs they gave her. After graduating high school, Tasha, Amra and Honey decided to move to Flint, Michigan with Honey’s cousin, MiMi. From there they started hustling men out of their money until it all caught up with them and then things had gotten real. Tasha, Amra, Honey and MiMi is left stuck the choice of either saving their friendship or out to save themselves.
I like the descriptive details that the author used, for example: “ Honey had her hair swooped into a beautiful, silky ponytail, Amra had her hair flat-ironed down, Tasha had cornrows to the back with big gold hoop earrings.” The author also used a lot of dialogue throughout the book, for example: “ How was school?” Ms. Pat asked the girls, the girls shrugged their shoulders and said “It was good.” “ Are you girls hungry?”, “Naw I’m cool.” The girls said unison.
My favorite character in the book was Tasha, I like her because unlike the other girls, Tasha didn’t have sex with men to get them to come out of their pockets, she used her natural beauty, I admire that about females.
My least favorite character happened to be Honey because in the end she was looking out for herself instead of her friends and I think that is very disloyal and betraying to the people who stuck by your side through thick and thin.
Moral of the story is that don’t go out and do stupid things and not expect it to smack you hard in the face. Just remember what goes around, comes back around no matter who you are.
Karma is like a rubber band, you can only stretch it so far until it comes back and smacks you in the face! You may think think you’re getting away with the things that you do such as stealing clothes from the mall or simply stealing money from your mom’s purse but no matter how long you do bad things and get away with it, it’ll catch up with you eventually.
The word “Karma” absolutely applies to people like Tasha, Amra, Honey and MiMi. These four girls are known as the Manola Mami’s who worked for a guy named Manolo who trains them to use their beautiful looks, personalities and sexual ways to trick men out of their money. Tasha, Honey and were born and raised in New York as sisters. Amra’s mother adopted Tasha after realizing that Tasha’s mother Lisa, was a drug addict and allowing men to have sex with Tasha so she can pay them for the drugs they gave her. After graduating high school, Tasha, Amra and Honey decided to move to Flint, Michigan with Honey’s cousin, MiMi. From there they started hustling men out of their money until it all caught up with them and then things had gotten real. Tasha, Amra, Honey and MiMi is left stuck the choice of either saving their friendship or out to save themselves.
I like the descriptive details that the author used, for example: “ Honey had her hair swooped into a beautiful, silky ponytail, Amra had her hair flat-ironed down, Tasha had cornrows to the back with big gold hoop earrings.” The author also used a lot of dialogue throughout the book, for example: “ How was school?” Ms. Pat asked the girls, the girls shrugged their shoulders and said “It was good.” “ Are you girls hungry?”, “Naw I’m cool.” The girls said unison.
My favorite character in the book was Tasha, I like her because unlike the other girls, Tasha didn’t have sex with men to get them to come out of their pockets, she used her natural beauty, I admire that about females.
My least favorite character happened to be Honey because in the end she was looking out for herself instead of her friends and I think that is very disloyal and betraying to the people who stuck by your side through thick and thin.
Moral of the story is that don’t go out and do stupid things and not expect it to smack you hard in the face. Just remember what goes around, comes back around no matter who you are.
November 23, 2011
I just finish this book I'm just shocked by the ending. I hope it's a second part to this book.! :)
January 14, 2019
This book was a pleasant distraction while I worked. It wasn’t anything that I had to focus on, but still kept me entertained while I sifted through a ton of data.
The story was a pretty standard Treasure Hernandez story. They tend to follow the same pattern. A group of girls/women get together, they do some shady shit, normally for a man. More often than not they are all outrageously flawless and hot women who make men’s jaws drop & their eyes jump out of their heads like in the old bugs bunny cartoons. There is forbidden love or true love or some kind of love. And then someone does something to break the trust and the love breaks up. Just in time for the start of the next book! Yay!
I say all of this like I won’t read the next book. Because I do love her books. Every last bit of them. I will read the next book.
The story was a pretty standard Treasure Hernandez story. They tend to follow the same pattern. A group of girls/women get together, they do some shady shit, normally for a man. More often than not they are all outrageously flawless and hot women who make men’s jaws drop & their eyes jump out of their heads like in the old bugs bunny cartoons. There is forbidden love or true love or some kind of love. And then someone does something to break the trust and the love breaks up. Just in time for the start of the next book! Yay!
I say all of this like I won’t read the next book. Because I do love her books. Every last bit of them. I will read the next book.
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December 17, 2019Well um, overall this was a good book and if it were not a spin off I’d give it 4 stars. Now being that it is a spin off it should align with the original series, but it doesn’t. No mention of Maury whatsoever and if I remember correctly Tasha was only 26 by the time halleigh came into the picture after years of tricking for manolo. But in this book the timeline is much different. Also, the relationship between Jamaica Joe and Tasha just doesn’t seem like the same one they shared in the Flint books. While they are cool in those books there’s no indication of how their relationship went from this book to that in the series. I’m disappointed that the book didn’t line up more with the series, but I can’t lie it’s still a good book. Even if you read this first it still wouldn’t make sense.
January 12, 2023
Loved hearing Tasha's point of view. After reading this, the entire premise of the Flint series makes 100% sense. It was almost somewhat predictable in most parts but still led to a great story. Treasure Hernandez' books are real, raw and well written. Would love to know more about Honey's story/point-of-view, not sure if it was (or will be continued) in the rest of the books. Can't wait to finish the entire series.
July 27, 2018
Great urban saga!!
October 20, 2018
3.5 stars
September 4, 2020
This is basically the same as the other books. Tasha went through the same things as Halleigh. This story could have been included in one of the other 7 books in this series.
February 7, 2025
I love reading ghetto books like this because everybody got fucked over, Honey was grimy, Amara couldn’t keep her legs closed, Mimi just was a ghetto ho, and Tasha was just trying to say Ms. Pat😭😭
March 4, 2010
This book is about a girl named tasha & he mom is on drugs.tasha leaves her mom & goes to her best friends house & lives with her for a while.After graduation Tasha & her friend Amra go to Flint,Michigan where their friend Honey went to live.
But before Tasha went to Flint she fell in love with Joe.Later on after the death of Keys she finds out that Joe is Jamica & she is being black mailed by this cop.She has to set up Joe or else she has to go to jail.Tasha really loves Joe.The day that they they spend time together is the day she admits that he's being set up.He was gonna ask Tasha to be his wife but now he just let & Tasha got arrested.She still loves Joe.
But before Tasha went to Flint she fell in love with Joe.Later on after the death of Keys she finds out that Joe is Jamica & she is being black mailed by this cop.She has to set up Joe or else she has to go to jail.Tasha really loves Joe.The day that they they spend time together is the day she admits that he's being set up.He was gonna ask Tasha to be his wife but now he just let & Tasha got arrested.She still loves Joe.
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January 4, 2013Loved this book. I was annoyed that Honey snitched and put the blame all on Tasha and Amra. Sad she died of AIDS (Amra). Never says if Ms. Pat lived after surgery or of the cancer came back. Wondering of there's a second part to this cause of how this ended. Oh and also irratated that Joe and Honey got together like that was so dirty. But like Tasha said she gonna get her man back lol.
April 5, 2010
1st My 1 star rating is My Rating only. Just one persons opinion.
Now, I did try to read this book but it was boring. Every cliche of street hood bullshit drama was added. just not my thing.
Now, I did try to read this book but it was boring. Every cliche of street hood bullshit drama was added. just not my thing.
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June 5, 2010it a good book and i enjoy it
August 24, 2011
It was OK
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October 16, 2011I'm a bit confused this book is series 7 but there is no mention of halleigh or maliek. The 7th book is called the finale. This book seems like it more based on tasha.
June 16, 2012
Awesome book, finish the book in one day that just how good it was. Looking forward to reading more about Tasha after prison.
December 14, 2012
Loved the book. Kind of mad they didnt mention what happened to Ms.Pat but i loved it
December 7, 2013
This was an okay read. I like that we got a glimpse of how the girls became Manolo Mamis and the background behind Tasha and Jamaica Joe's relationship.
January 4, 2014
I enjoyed reading how the manolo mamis came to be in this prologue.
October 30, 2014
This book was good but when it got to the middle and more towards the end it just pissed me off like how stupid can you be but the book was good though.
November 30, 2015
The book was a great book, I plan to read more like it.
December 1, 2019
Wonderful book
Man I love this book. Couldn't put it down. You won't be able to get enough of it. One of the best books I ever read.
Man I love this book. Couldn't put it down. You won't be able to get enough of it. One of the best books I ever read.
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