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Still Candy Shopping

Name: Still Candy Shopping
Author: Kiki Swinson
ISBN: 9780984529001

by Kiki Swinson

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Overview

Faith Simmons decides to get her life back together by admitting herself into a drug rehab. But when she learns that she won't get her family back she falls into a relapse. Within a blink of an eye she is back on the streets and has drifted into a whole new world of chaos. With so many odds stacked against her, Faith will find it very difficult to come out of this nightmare alive.

Synopsis

In two stories about the consequences of heroin, Faith, a recovering user, discovers the price for relapsing, and Ben, a young hustler, becomes a target after his younger brother dies of a heroin overdose.

About the Author, Kiki Swinson

Kiki Swinson is a national best selling author of the powerful Wifey series. She has also penned the Playing Dirty & Notorious series, along with The Candy Shop & Still Candy Shopping. And with A Sticky Situation, Heist & Sleeping with the Enemy underneath her belt, people wonder how she comes up with so many different story lines.

Right now Ms. Swinson is hard at work on three new series entitled Wife Extraordinaire, New York's Finest & Cheaper to Keep Her.

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Library Journal

"Visiting the candy shop" means falling into the drug game. In Swinson's novella "The Candy Shop: Part 2," Faith Simmons, a former school principal and now addict, tries to get clean in rehab but bolts back to Norfolk's streets. After scoring heroin, she's picked up by Slim, an abusive psycho pimp who forces her into prostitution. Charging clients $50 for oral sex for her fix becomes Faith's ultra-grimy nightly task. Swinson's compact stunner is not for the squeamish. Amaleka McCall's "A Sucker 4 Candy" gives an insider's view of Brooklyn's drug game. Sixteen-year-old Ben Early is put on Deezo's payroll as a hustler. Ben slips up, and his baby brother, Keno, ingests pure heroin stashed in Ben's bedroom and dies from toxic shock. That's only the beginning of Ben's downward spiral. Dee vows never to have anyone cross him or bring attention from the police, and Ben becomes a marked young man.VERDICT Featuring powerful scenes about the drug game, abuse against women, and the viciousness of the streets, both stories skyrocket to stunning endings. Multiple copies will be required. —"The Word on Street Lit", Booksmack!, 12/16/10.