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A review by a_novel_ty
Honor Thy Thug by Wahida Clark
2.0
OKAY!!! so book 6 in the Thug Series by Wahida Clark and the gang has all returned. Trae, Tasha, Kaylin, Angel, Jaz, Faheem, Kyra, Rick, and others….and they’re all getting on my GODDAMNED nerves.
okay so lets start with…
The Good?
the book was good…i can at least say that. Wahida resuscitated this series because the events of this last book was about to send her writing career to an early grave. While this book is definitely not the best out of the series…its the best out of the second half of the series…I’m beginning to think of the 6 books in the series as two separate works. There’s the classics which are the first three books…and then there’s these.— anyway the story was interesting. some new issues were brought in, some thrilling plots put into motion…things got REAL.
The Bad?
She’s basically ruined the characters and what they stood for and represented….i think the big issue with Wahida and the direction these books have taken is, she’s forgotten who her core audience is….i think she’s forgotten who she was writing these books for.
Yes i came for the hood shit, yes i came for the thug loving…but let us not forget that LOVING has played a key role here! where is the love Wahida? what happened to it? i think she needs to remember that the majority of the loyal fans of this series are females, who do not care that Trae and Kay can and will bust their guns, or that they will make all this money or whatever the hell, but that they were good guys and they LOVED the women who held them down! cmon Wahida!
Another thing…alot of the shit in this book was just STUPID. and the main reason it took me damn near a week to really get anywhere with this book…i was so close to just saying fuck it and not reading this book anymore because some of the things that were going on were just NOT plausible, and as a person who GREW UP in the hood around this shit…i have the authority to say that. — i don’t care what hood you grew up in, or what code you follow. no one will EVER be ‘okay’ with their best friend trying to kill their brother! and i don’t care how much you hate your brother. blood is blood. you’re not going to stab my brother in the neck with intentions of killing him and then have drinks and a blunt with me later on that day while we discuss what went down! like that’s just NOT plausible….ugh
The annoying
for whatever reason…Wahida started writing these books in first person narrative…now that would be fine and dandy if the characters weren’t hood as fuck and narrated the story like they were relaying a crazy ass escapade to their homies on the block.
it is also very tactless to plug yourself in your own damn book using your own ratchet ass characters like…i don’t care about your other books and I’m not going to read them. you making your character give you a shoutout and plugging one of your other books is NOT going to make me buy it so please stop…especially considering the other books are anything but spectacular.
anyway…there’s going to be another one…and I’m excited for it, but honestly i hope she wraps this up soon….she’s already decimated the characters and their relationships to a point where I’m indifferent to what happens to them…i would really like to leave this series with just a little bit of love for them….
okay so lets start with…
The Good?
the book was good…i can at least say that. Wahida resuscitated this series because the events of this last book was about to send her writing career to an early grave. While this book is definitely not the best out of the series…its the best out of the second half of the series…I’m beginning to think of the 6 books in the series as two separate works. There’s the classics which are the first three books…and then there’s these.— anyway the story was interesting. some new issues were brought in, some thrilling plots put into motion…things got REAL.
The Bad?
She’s basically ruined the characters and what they stood for and represented….i think the big issue with Wahida and the direction these books have taken is, she’s forgotten who her core audience is….i think she’s forgotten who she was writing these books for.
Yes i came for the hood shit, yes i came for the thug loving…but let us not forget that LOVING has played a key role here! where is the love Wahida? what happened to it? i think she needs to remember that the majority of the loyal fans of this series are females, who do not care that Trae and Kay can and will bust their guns, or that they will make all this money or whatever the hell, but that they were good guys and they LOVED the women who held them down! cmon Wahida!
Another thing…alot of the shit in this book was just STUPID. and the main reason it took me damn near a week to really get anywhere with this book…i was so close to just saying fuck it and not reading this book anymore because some of the things that were going on were just NOT plausible, and as a person who GREW UP in the hood around this shit…i have the authority to say that. — i don’t care what hood you grew up in, or what code you follow. no one will EVER be ‘okay’ with their best friend trying to kill their brother! and i don’t care how much you hate your brother. blood is blood. you’re not going to stab my brother in the neck with intentions of killing him and then have drinks and a blunt with me later on that day while we discuss what went down! like that’s just NOT plausible….ugh
The annoying
for whatever reason…Wahida started writing these books in first person narrative…now that would be fine and dandy if the characters weren’t hood as fuck and narrated the story like they were relaying a crazy ass escapade to their homies on the block.
it is also very tactless to plug yourself in your own damn book using your own ratchet ass characters like…i don’t care about your other books and I’m not going to read them. you making your character give you a shoutout and plugging one of your other books is NOT going to make me buy it so please stop…especially considering the other books are anything but spectacular.
anyway…there’s going to be another one…and I’m excited for it, but honestly i hope she wraps this up soon….she’s already decimated the characters and their relationships to a point where I’m indifferent to what happens to them…i would really like to leave this series with just a little bit of love for them….