Hard Lovin' Straight Thuggin'

Hard Lovin' Straight Thuggin', Book 1

By: S. Yvonne

Narrated by: Katherine Dollison, Midnite Michael

Messiah "Gu" Carter vowed to protect his family of women without letting the streets take over, but when tragedy strikes, his whole world shifts.

Running into someone with answers forces him to decide, seek revenge, or face the past.

Turquoise "Qui" Edwards is book smart but lost in a past she can't remember. Caught in a deadly game, she holds secrets that could shatter everything. Will she keep quiet or expose the truth?

Brielle "Bari" Carter is Gu's little sister, making grown-woman moves with reckless consequences, but when the weight of her choices comes crashing down, not even Gu may be able to save her.

Rayliris "RaRa" Almanzar is a jealous woman willing to do anything to stay in Gu's life. But when obsession turns deadly, will she learn the hard way that another woman's happiness ain't hers to steal?

Love, loyalty, and street life collide in Hard Lovin' Straight Thuggin'.

©2025 S.Yvonne (Shalaine Powell) (P)2025 Podium Audio

It was funny. But definitely not my cup of tea.

I just didn’t like this book. Not my jive. A whole book with no sex…. lol nah I’m good!

True Love

I love all three books and can’t wait for the fourth. I would love for Bam to save and bond with her mother.

Storyline is cool but

There were some missed details and incorrectly used words. Like, people arriving places in separate cars but leaving in the same car and saying, I won't oblige, when describing them obliging. The female narrator would change moods and sometimes the whole voice mid sentence... her voices were inconsistent.

Not worth paying for...

This book had me torn. So the story itself was pretty good but not great. The biggest disappointment is the female narrator! She was absolutely awful and the crazy thing was she sounds normal when she was speaking for characters with minimal roles. But when she was speaking as the main characters it was awful. I had to keep adjusting the volume because she was loud and ghetto even if that wasn't the characters tone. I hate I spent money on this. It would have been better if it was a free virtual voice recording.

Don't listen to that last comment

That comment before had me thinking the dame book was sqeaky clean fluff. That's not true at all. It's not smut, but there's a lot of heat going on in there and the story itself was really good . The characters have some good back stories and theres some good build to the relationships. I actually enjoyed this one all the way to the end with zero bordum.