Shameless Hoodwives: A Bentley Manor Tale

In the second novel from the authors of Desperate Hoodwives, four women will try to escape Bentley Manor -- a place no one has ever left unscathed...

• Keisha married the high school basketball star, but now Smokey's addicted to crack. Unable to feed her children, Keisha feels that she's not only hit bottom but has taken her children with her. When Smokey's brother offers to help, will it come at the ultimate price?

• Takiah abruptly fled her pimp husband with her baby. Desperate to start over, she finds a hiding place. Living with Grandma Cleo means returning to church -- but Takiah's salvation is the last thing on the pastor's mind...

• Princess is lucky to have found a ride-or-die friend in Lucky, who helps protect her from her mom's abusive ways. With a voice to rival Mary J. and Whitney, at just seventeen Princess holds a ticket out. But when Lucky is gone, will she have the courage to follow her dreams?

• Woo Woo has escaped the projects with her suburban husband -- the type of man every woman wants. But she can't resist sneaking back to Bentley Manor for steamy sexcapades with her drug dealer boyfriend. It's not only WooWoo who has a secret...

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GREAT BOOK! I LOVE THE BENTLEY MANOR SERIES, 2008-12-31
KEISHA, TAKIAH, PRINCESS ANS WOOWOO ARE FOUR DIFFERENT WOMEN IN THE SECOND BOOK OF THE BEST SELLING BENTLY MANOR SERIES, FACING THE SAME HEARTBREAK, GRIT, ADULTERY AND POSSIBLE DEADLY CONSEQUENCES. HIGHLY RECOMMENED. IF U LIKES DESPERATE HOODWIVES, THEN YOU'LL LIKE SHAMELESS HOODWIVES.


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Off The Hook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, 2008-12-19
This is the first book I've read by these two authors. I loved this book these two authors done so well wouldn't even know who wrote what part of the book or which characters they so much alike in there writing. Now book is based on all these women going though so much drama growing up in Bentley Manor the projects to these ladies. Woo Woo she got out of Bentley Manor by marrying a wonderful man name Reggie that stay in the suburbs but, Woo Woo found her self coming back to have a love feast with Hassan which blows my mind when I found out that Hassan a gal wow. Now Keisha she is a mom to 5 wonderful kids but, she is also a wife to Smokey that is a drug addict to no return. Smokey sells any and everything in the household to suport his habbit. Keisha always had a thang for Smokey brother Shakespear. He put Keisha though hair school and he also fell in love with Keisha. Now Takiah is a addict herself. She takes her and her baby and runs from her husband after a big blow out fight with her husband that lend him to jail. So she moves back to Bentley Manor with her grandmom Miz Cleo. She had to follow her grandmom rules no matter what. That lead her back to church doing only god knows what with the pastor. Now Princess shes a sweet heart. My best character in this book. She went though so much with her mom only caring about the men's she with to the point the men touching on Princess. Princess can sing her butt off that lend her to have her own record deal and get away from Bentley Manor and her mom. Miz Cleo and Miz Osceola they both are some great women that just trying to watch over Bentley Manor if that means they need to get there bats or there guns they will do so.

Great book overall. Have to totally get "The Hood Life" next for sure.:)


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PLEASE READ!!!!!!!!!, 2008-11-25
DESPERATE HOODWIVES AND SHAMELESS HOODWIVES WAS OFF THE HOOK.. I WAS HOPING MEESHA AND DIAMOND COULD COLLAB ON ANOTHER HOODWIVES JOINT B/C THESE BOOKS R A MUST READ!!!! 2 MUCH DRAMA 2 NAME IT ALL BUT IT IS DEFINITELY WORTH UR LAST DOLLA!!!


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Excellent!, 2008-10-09
This second installment was better than the first! There is always drama brewing at Bentley Manor. I felt for all the women. Especially Princess and Takiah. Did it have to end like that for Takiah?? that blew me away. and I never expected Woo Woo's secret. This was a page turner. Great book club discussion book. We're still talking about it!

Dawnny
Mahogany Book Club




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Better The Second Time Around!, 2008-09-23
Meesha Mink and De'Nesha Diamond have done it again. Shameless Hoodwives, the sequel to Desperate Hoodwives, gives readers more drama straight from the Bentley Manor housing project. As always, Miz Cleo and Miz Osceola are on the scene giving bird's-eye-views of the low-down dirt going on in the housing project. Then we have Keisha, the former drug-addicted mother of four, who is helping her husband overcome his own addiction demons. Alongside her is Shakespeare, her brother-in-law, who shows in more ways than one that he is his brother's keeper.

Next on deck is Princess, the 17 year-old neglected daughter of Queen. Through all of Precious' pain, she has one blessing that may very well get her up out of Bentley Manor; her voice. But how good is success when she has no one to share it with?

WooWoo, the sister of Lexi from Desperate Hoodwives, actually made it out of Bentley. Now married to a square and living as a suburban housewife, will she be able to stay away from the Manor when her heart is still deep in the projects with Hassan?

Last, and certainly not least, is Takiah who shows up on her grandmother's, Miz Cleo, doorstep with her infant daughter. On the run from her husband/pimp/pusher, Kameron, she faces her problems head on in the unlikeliest of places. Four women destined to make it out of Bentley Manor, but is there no place like home?

Mink and Diamond spiced it up a notch with this sequel. I was more shocked, with a purpose, and emotionally invested than I remember being in the first installment. It is a quick, entertaining, though dark, read that certainly did not succumb to the sophomore slump. The characters jumped from the page and I could not help but care for them; especially Princess. The third installment, The Hood Life, is due out in January 2009 and you better believe I will be in line for the madness. I recommend Shameless Hoodwives to readers who enjoy drama-filled reads with heart tugging plots. Bentley Manor fans will definitely enjoy this.

Reviewed by Darnetta Frazier
APOOO BookClub

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