TRUE TO THE GAME

In this first installment of Woods’s wildly popular True to the Game series, a very young Gena meets Quadir, a millionaire drug dealer, and falls for him—hard. Narrator Cary Hite artfully portrays the many characters in a novel with street cred. Particularly fascinating are two contrasting elderly women—one cooks drugs for the dealers, and the other raises her grandchildren and prays for deliverance. The danger and high stakes of the criminal underworld ensure a wide range of emotion, which is perfect for audio. Along with the dealers and their women are neighbors, kids, and street people. Woods herself closes with a letter to listeners in which she explains her intent to alert her fans about the dangers of easy money and points to herself as a role model for overcoming obstacles and finding success. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2011]