“Normally, it takes a lot for me to get into books written in the first person. I have to really-really love the narrator to keep reading past the first chapter. Ernessa T. Carter managed to pull me in with Davie. But that's not why this book is getting five stars from me. It's getting five stars because it's smart and funny as all get out. And she takes risk craft-wise that I just love. Like the fact that we should be able to trust the narrator and we totally do when in hindsight we shouldn't trust this little trickster worth a damn! LOL. She's sweet and likable but she also a hustling survivor. Davie Jones made her way out of hell because people underestimated her. The story actually depends on readers doing the same. And for that reason, I give this book five stars, bravo and a hell-yeah-do-that-shit! Good stuff! This is a book I would teach in a contemporary black women's writers course or even a popular culture course. And of course it's a must read!”
