The Hood Rats (Triple Crown Publications Presents) Paperback – October 26, 2008

E.R. McNair introduces Gary, Indiana's own brat pack: Bre, Nesha, Nicky and CeeCee. These notorious hood ladies put their lifelong friendships to the test as their young adulthood filled with partying, sexing and drugging crashes, leaving them scrambling for the worry-free past. Ultimately, the Hood Rats must face their futures alone as differences between them are simply too extreme to hold the group together. For some of the girls, opportunities to escape the hood are taken as acts of God's grace; for the others, the hood becomes a permanent hell in which so many others have found themselves trapped.McNair constructs an undeniably realistic narration, giving Bre, Nesha, Nicky and CeeCee their own voices throughout the novel. This is not a release to be missed - The Hood Rats will inspire readers to love unconditionally, hope in any case, and always look to change for the better.

THIS IS MY STORY AS WELL AS MILLIONS OF YOUNG FEMALES IN THIS WORLD, THAT WAS SUROUNDED BY CRAZINESS OF DA HOOD,AND FRIENDS EASILY CAUGHT UP IN IT!!! I LOVED THIS STORY BECAUSE IT WAS SO REAL TO ME, I'VE FOUND MYSELF IN SEVERAL OF DA SAME SITUATIONS WITH MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS. HOOD RATS A LITTLE HARSH (NEGATIVE), I WOULD NAME MY BOOK " DA BREAKS"!!! GREAT ENDINGS AND VERY ENTERTAINING, KUDOS TO THE AUTHOR!!!!!!!!!

APOOO Rating: 5 starsAmazon Rating: 5 starsBre, CeeCee, Neesha and Nicky are known as the HOOD RATS. Four friends that each tell their individual stories of love, heartache, and pain. Each girl living the hood life, living the best life they can with what they have.Bre is the quiet, shy one out of the group. The one that seemingly has it together the most. She is the voice of reason. The one who will intervene between the other friends to keep the peace. She lives vicariously through her girls' lives, since she is more laid back.CeeCee is a hood rat in every definition of the word. She is a mother of three children whom always seem to be in the care of their grandmother. CeeCee loves to smoke weed, drink and party and although she has a man, she has someone on the side as well. Will she realize that she is playing a dangerous game before it is too late?Neesha will do whatever and whoever to get what she wants. She does not care what anyone says about her. She has the mentality of a dude when it comes to sex; she will have one coming in the front door and the other leaving out the back. Say what you will but the girl is getting paid. She is the fighter in their clique. You mess with one of her girls, you best believe you are will receive a beat down.Nicky is the one who has suffered the greatest loss. With all the losses she has experienced she lets life beat her down to the point where she begins trying to cope with the heartache that she has experienced through the use of drugs. It has her doing and acting in ways she normally would not.When tragedy strikes, the bond of friendship will be tested. In HOOD RATS you will find a story of friendship, love, betrayal, tragedy, lies and deceit. Do not judge this book by its cover because it is not the typical hood book that you would normally get coming out of TCP. I was pleasantly surprised to see that this had positive attributes in it. I look forward to reading more by this author. The story had me constantly turning the pages.Reviewed by Leona R.APOOO BookClub

We are introduced to four friends:Bre,CeeCee,Nicky and Nesha.They are known as the Hood Rats.They each live the hood life and live it the best way they know how.Bre is the quiet one and the peacemaker of the group.She is reasonable and has it together more than her friends.She lives her life through her girls being that she's the reserved one.CeeCee is a straight up hood rat.She's a mother of three who loves to smoke,drink and party.Something tragic happens but will that make CeeCee change her ways before it's too late?Nesha does whatever she wants whenever she wants and there is no shame in her game whatsoever.She is a fighter and doesn't give a damn what people think of her.Nicky has a experienced many losses in her life.She gets so down that eventually she starts using drugs and starts acting funny towards her friends.This book is about friendship and there friendship was tested.It was a quick and easy read.

This book was ok the females wasn't all hood rats to me. The mainly one that say hood to the end was Nesha.Ok 4 women grow up together Bre, Nicky, Nesha and CeeCee. They all had there problems as friends and they all had there problems either being a mom or men issues.Bre the main character of the book. Well she was a alright character she was mainly the type of girl that like to keep the drama down and keep her girls talking. Like Nicky said, Bre's the captain save a ho. Bre had her issues with trying to get to know here dad that decides to write her after he find out he is dying.Also she try to be the middle man between the drama with her friends.Nicky have her issues she sleeping with CeeCee's kids dad because she upset with CeeCee sleeping with Tone that Nicky was so in love with but, he didn't pay Nicky and attention. Nicky has her issues with drugs and don't really care about anything.Nesha she is the main hoodrat in the group. One of her kids get taken by his dad because Nesha don't want to grow up and do what she is supposed to do as a mom. She the main one that rather fight then to talk. But, Nesha ends up in way a lot of trouble later on.CeeCee decided to change her ways after her kids dad DayDay gets shoot. She goes to church and find jesus. She then take her GED test and pass and then ups and moves down south to start over with her kids. She leaves all the bull behine her back in Gary. She forgives everyone that did her wrong even her kids dad.Overall it was a ok read. But, still wondering where the title hoodrats comes in place with these girls. I like the topics a bit but, wishing more drama was involved with Bre and her not being so good to shoes a lot.Ok read.