{"id":268,"date":"2008-02-01T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T17:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2020-05-09T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:30:41","slug":"london-reign-by-ac-britt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"London Reign by A.C. Britt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0974298239\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=sistontheshel-20&amp;linkId=a3f7232df34cbbf394b4aefa3d1d4d26&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0974298239&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=sistontheshel-20&amp;language=en_US\" width=\"231\" height=\"353\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0<\/strong> Ghettoheat, Sept. 2007<br \/>\n<strong>Genre(s):<\/strong>\u00a0 Street Life, Young Adult<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong>\u00a0 224<br \/>\n<strong>Website:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghettoheat.com\">http:\/\/www.ghettoheat.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><p><strong class=\"rating\">Rating:<\/strong>&nbsp;<img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"3\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"3\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"3\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/blank_star.png\" alt=\"&#9734;\" title=\"3\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/blank_star.png\" alt=\"&#9734;\" title=\"3\/5\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your back is against the wall, what do you do? Do you cower in fear or fight back?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re 16-year-old London Walters, the protagonist of <strong><em>LONDON REIGN<\/em><\/strong>, you\u2019re both a lover and a fighter. For most of her young life, London has been fighting against everything \u2013 living with an alcoholic father, surviving the inner-city Boston streets, being gay and being perceived as a man. Unbeknownst to most women she dates, London is a man trapped in a woman\u2019s body. The love-em-and-leave-em playboy needs a special woman that can handle her and give her a reason to settle down.<\/p>\n<p>London thinks she might have the one \u2013 until one night she is forced to leave home. It\u2019s not something she wants, especially since she would have to abandon her little sister, Shantell, whom she always promised to protect. But she leaves anyway, taking a bus ride to Detroit, where she settles with little money and nowhere to stay.<\/p>\n<p>She looks for employment in an auto shop, and runs into the boss\u2019 daughter, Mercedes. London finds her attractive but hesitates because Mercedes is a bitch with a capital B; she doesn\u2019t want to mix business with pleasure. The pair begin dating, yet it comes to a head when Mercedes learns the truth about London\u2019s past. It jeopardizes her job and her well being.<\/p>\n<p>But London\u2019s a hustler, and has never let anyone keep her down for too long.<\/p>\n<p>A.C. Britt\u2019s <em>London Reign<\/em> takes you into the world of doing what you gotta do to stay alive. London is a real stud-thug, but you see she has heart. Good storytelling is the gift you\u2019ll receive in reading <em>London Reign<\/em>. You\u2019ll want to know what happens next to the bad boy, and if she makes it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed February 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 Ghettoheat, Sept. 2007 Genre(s):\u00a0 Street Life, Young Adult Pages:\u00a0 224 Website:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.ghettoheat.com If your back is against the wall, what do you do? Do you cower in fear or fight back? If you\u2019re 16-year-old London Walters, the protagonist of LONDON REIGN, you\u2019re both a lover and a fighter. For most of her young life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,49,52,468,534],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}