Christmas in the Hood: Stories (Street Chronicles)

by Nikki Turner, K. Elliott, J.M. Benjamin, et al.

Book Overview

The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season. Christmas in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345497805
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: One World
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Hood Christmas

I've had some hood Christmases myself but none like these, The first one was ok, although I was wondering about a stripper catching feelings for these brothers so quick..2 weeks? yeah ok.I did like the ending though. Holiday Hell was a good one,Me and Grandma was interesting too. I didn't really care for Christmas Song had I was trying to push myself to read it but forget about it..aaarrrgghh!

I guess 4 out of 5 isn't bad.

Ok to make a long one short this book was pretty good.I enjoyed all the stories.The only one I couldnt get into or didnt bother to finish was A Christmas Song by Seth"soul man" Ferranti.I dont know what direction that story was going and when he started to introduce a billion characters I knew it was time to skip over it.Other than that the rest were good.

Christmas was off the hook!!!!

K.Elliott ****.5 Mo Shines ***** Dee Blackmon **** J.M.Benjamin***** Seth Ferranti****

Good Stories

RATINGS BY STORY: 1.) Secret Santa- K.Elliott *** 2.) Me and Grandma-Mo Shine **** 3.) Holiday Hell-Dee Blackmon ***** (My favorite story) 4.) A Christmas Song-Seth "the soul man" Ferranti-**** 5>) Charge It To the Game- J.M. Benjamin -***** (My favorite story)

Good Stories

I haven't read but one of Nikki's offerings, and this book kind of drew me in especially the story about the stripper who gets ripped off at Christmas time, but in the end gets the ultimate blessing. I really liked that story. Secret Santa is the name of that. i really liked it because I can relate and been there too. I believe every sister should have a Secret Santa out there to set her back on the straight and narrow.Out of all the stories, "Charge it to the Game" was the one I didn't care for. That Meeka was a true piece of work to begin with and then to do what she did was not right. I don't care what you said, but it was not right. "Holiday Hell" was grim but the ending made up for it. The story about the dope dealing grandma was great too. There are a lot of senior citizens in the game now trying to supplement their checks and what not and that is not right. All around, a good book.