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. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine