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A review by mattdube
The Cartel by Ashley Antoinette
3.0
This is a kind of weird book of "street crime," not least because in the novel, one character promotes the writers of this very novel. Also strange, this is the first part of a trilogy, but as that, it ended either twenty pages too early or too late to really feel complete. And also, the first couple chapters maybe serve the trilogy, but feel out of place here.
These concerns aside, I enjoyed this rollicking ride around Miami (and a little time in Flint) about turnover in a crime family, as the death of the patriarch leaves people scrambling to find and fill new roles. Once it's underway, we alternate between gang violence with high body counts and reasonably graphic sex scenes (which aren't kinky, just graphic), often in the same chapter. The typeface is large and this reads really quickly.
It's good, though I didn't want to read all three books. By itself, this isn't totally satisfying.
These concerns aside, I enjoyed this rollicking ride around Miami (and a little time in Flint) about turnover in a crime family, as the death of the patriarch leaves people scrambling to find and fill new roles. Once it's underway, we alternate between gang violence with high body counts and reasonably graphic sex scenes (which aren't kinky, just graphic), often in the same chapter. The typeface is large and this reads really quickly.
It's good, though I didn't want to read all three books. By itself, this isn't totally satisfying.