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Murderville (2011)

by Ashley Antoinette(Favorite Author)

4.53 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1936399008 (ISBN13: 9781936399000)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Cash Money Content

series

Murderville

review 1: Murdervillle by Ashley and Jaquavis is a story of two little kids as they walk through their past.Liberty and A'Shai are grown up but as Liberty's dying A'Shai walks her through their past reliving their journey's through the streets. Their story will take them from an arranged marriage, Mexico's drug cartel, child brothels. hustling in Detriot, to escaping L.A's underworld. But ultimately, this story of love and redemption that will leave you breathless from the first page until the unpredictable and mind-blowing ending. Liberty's family was killed when she was young by the Rebel's, a deadly gang that A'Shai father owned. They took Liberty and made her work and cook, clean the house and she was only 10 years old she couldn't do much. Once her and A'Shai started talking mo... morere she felt more comfortable and he made a promise to protect her. Sadly he broke his promise because he was only 11 years old and he wasn't as strong as his father who tried to rape her or as strong as the soilders that pushed her around once they got on the boat called Murderville. Liberty was very weak and skinny and all she wanted was to be around A'Shai but once they were tooken away from eachother that changed everything. Liberty was forced to sell her body for money everyday just so she could make a living and better yet she was sold to a man named Samad who purchased her at a Gentelman's Ball when she was 18. That was the first time A'Shai had seen her in 8 years he was trying his best to get hurt by Samad had more money and would fight for the girl he wanted. Once Samad got her he controlled her made her cover up her whole body when they left the house made her do everything she said he watched her like a hawk. Would you want to be controlled that way? This book was sad but romantic towards the end because of all the things liberty went through as a child. I really enjoyed reading it because he told a story and not any old story but the perfect story. I actually felt like I was in the book but to think about it I couldn't put myself in Liberty's shoes because she went through a lot just to become the woman she was everyday she woke up. Did I mention A'Shai would kill himself over Liberty, that's real true love. My favorite part of this book was when A'Shai snuck into Samad's house to get Liberty I mean come on that was his childhood love and he promised to protect her so he's keeping his promise. This time hopefully. Im glad I picked this book because it ended very well but I would like to read on more because the way it was ended was not right actually. I would recommend this book to teenagers and adults mainly because its not really a children's book and it has a lot of violence in it also.This book does contain sex, drugs, violence and its people murdering eachother so mainly to adults and teens.
review 2: I would have given it four stars because although the story line was a bit depressing it was well written and a page turner. However, as a brown skin black woman-as I'm sure a lot of their readers are- I found it very offensive w/the authors incessant obsession w/subtly promoting lighter skin or mixed characters as better looking or in a better light than dark or brown skin characters. Liberty one of the main protaganists was held in high esteem for her looks-as it was noted because she was a light skin African and later noted had white genetic make up mixed in there. They also HAD to let us know that another one of the main female characters who was lauded for her beauty had beautiful locs but "not the right texture for it". What this does is let us know she doesn't have full on kinky hair so subtly telling us she has some mixed heritage in there as well. "Ah ha-no wonder she's beautiful!" Both of the most beautiful women in the brothel were not black at all. On the flip side, I can only recall one brown skin woman noted in the book-and she was never described as being pretty but was shamefully dismissed by both men she was in contact with. Also, two dark skin men who were I believe described as being "black as tar" or something to that effect were in short just evil. As black people we have to be diligent in actively rejecting these subtle or direct notions that somehow if you're mixed you're beautiful and if you just regular ol' black folk your beauty is not worth mentioning-if it's even believed to be there. It is important. Whether this was intentional or not it still has the same effect-black is not beautiful. And I actively reject it out loud! And it's even worse when it comes from our own. They have to be aware of it too. I won't be reading the other two simply because I don't want to unconciously internalize any of that nonsense! That's more important to me than a decent read. less

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