Skin Game

by Lawrence C. Ross

Book Overview

Keisha is drop-dead gorgeous. She's smart and tough, with big hopes for her future. She wishes she didn't have to strip at LA's Chi-Chi Club, but it's the only way to make enough money to attend... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0758219423
• ISBN13: 9780758219428
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Dafina Books
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Evolution

Anyone from a simular background can relate to this young girls struggle to be more than where you come from. I personally enjoed this book cover to cover. This is a story that could very well be reality. I look at her as a sister or cousin that grew up through trials.

Put on the oven mits....this story is HOT!!!!!

This is a fast pace, kept on track, no loose ends in your face raw story. Keisha is smart but born into a situation, and she has a goal,but has to find a quick way to achieve that goal. She makes some decisions, not always the best decisions, but she always tries to stay in control. Unfortunately for her all her decisions, don't turn out the way she planned them, and when she hooks up with Steven, through Sean is when things get down right ugly and dirty. If you can't take profanity, explicit sex, then you can't handle this story...because it so hot that you will need oven mits to read it!!!!!!!!! Keisha and Patra show us along with the other characters in the story, why some make the choices they do. All strippers are not hoes and all hoes are stupid. Some women along with men enjoy the line of work that they choose. Sometimes it is all about the money and other times it isn't. Keisha shows us that she is doing her thing to further herself in life and not have to always be in the game. Steven a sleazy businessman shows us that in the game you don't want to mess with the wrong one, but then the tables get flipped when Donovan steps back in the picture. See you never know who someone has in their corner to watch their back. Fast paced, in your face, straight to the point and leaves no loose ends story. If you can handle the heat, then enter the kitchen otherwise you may get burned. This is an adult story (If the sex wasn't so intense..this would be a great story for young girls to read also, but do to the nature of the business, I don't recommend it to teens). Good job in my book Lawrence Ross!!

very creative book

this book is a fast paced and a adventure with each pass page turner. Keisha Montez is on the hustle and is looking to make it to the big time. the writer does a very good job of pushing the main character into many different directions and yet keeps the Groove. a very good book and very direct about the Hustle.

Showing Her Skin to Win

Skin Game by Lawrence Ross is a fast-paced look at what a young girl will do when she feels she has no choices. Keisha Montez is a smart, beautiful girl of eighteen who is working weeknights as a stripper at the Chi Chi Club. She has been accepted at UCLA and is determined to attend, majoring in Women's Studies. Her mother, Veronica, has refused to fill out financial aid forms so Keisha is convinced the only way to earn money is by stripping. She does not like her environment and likes Sean her boss even less but she is bound and determined to get what she needs. While dancing she is discovered by Steven Cox, a former attorney and the owner of PIMP magazine. Steven is determined to grow from magazine owner to producer of pornographic movies. Once he meets the beautiful Keisha, he knows she is the one to get him where he wants to go. What he does not know is Keisha is not the run-of-the-mill stripper turned porn star and she is not one to be pushed around. Skin Game is a roller coaster ride that takes the reader from what is to what can be and shows how one young girl handles herself when she is determined. Skin Game is a recommended read for all readers who love a timely, well-told story of someone who makes bad decisions when young, yet works to rise above them. Angelia Menchan APOOO BookClub

Creative

This is an exceptionally creative book. It addresses peer pressure, focusing on goals, regaining focus, and also standing by what you belief. This can be a tool used for discussion especially amongst college groups or persons who may find themselves going outside the normal ways of making money in order to obtain a positive goal, such as going to college.