Book Review

Review for Don't Mess With The Quiet Chick

Wahida Clark Publishing, Cyndi Sinclaire, BD Hampton

3.5 stars rounded up to 4

Review for Don’t Mess With a Quiet Chick - Wahida Clark Publishing, Cyndi Sinclaire & BD Hampton

3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

This story begins with 19-year-old Niiema meeting up with her 19-year-old friend, Barbi, at a club, after a last minute invitation to go out for drinks. Maybe it’s because I’m an Aussie, but when guys are shooting pool just inside the entrance, that suggests it’s more like a pub, than a club to me.

While there, a big tattooed guy near the pool table catches Niiema’s eye. But as she’s shy, her friend, Barbi, takes the initiative to call him over. Derek (Big D) doesn’t hesitate.

Things escalate pretty quickly, and what follows is a night and weekend filled with heavy drug use, and filthy sex, so if those are not your thing, I don’t recommend you read this book. It begins a little slow with cringe-worthy words like lady parts, melting pot, soft spot, and reference to a wetted mound. But the language does get better (or more vulgar if you prefer that term – to me, it’s nothing).

Niiema is portrayed as a quiet ‘church mouse’ with strict parents. Barbi is portrayed as a brazen, foul-mouthed sl*t who has been with both women, and men. Because Niiema has strict parents, she’s never done any sort of drug, although she was curious about sex, just like any other teenager on the planet, in high school.

“Most of the boys in high school came and she never felt a thing, other than them groping like wild boars rooting through a briar patch. All sniffing and eating with no real course of action.”

I could identify with this explanation, and I did have a bit of a giggle.

On the way to D’s place, joints are smoked in the car. Things begin to heat up in the car on the way to D’s, and just continues to get wilder during the course of the weekend between the three of them, with further drug use (which escalates to include some of what I’d call hard-core drugs like ecstasy, coke etc.), as well as a couple of D’s friends who were invited over to deal with Barbi because D has his sights set on Niiema.

**SPOILER ALERT**

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arbi displays her true colors to her so-called friend, Niiema. By the end of the weekend, their friendship is over. For a ‘church mouse’ being raised in a strict household, it’s my opinion that Niiema is quite the little sl*t, too, although not to the degree Barbi is. Barbi is the absolute definition of it.

I have a couple of issues with this story. Apart from some editing issues (punctuation), and some missing, and misspelled words, there was one instance where I think the wrong name was used. “What now?” Barbie hissed. Pretty sure it was supposed to be Niiema speaking at this point. I won’t describe what they were doing. Not in a review.

Another issue I had was Niiema ‘forgetting’ her bra. Women don’t ‘forget’ their bra. You either wear one, or you don’t. And if you don’t, you KNOW that is going to be obvious to other people. D comes straight out and admits he’s a drug dealer. Now, I don’t know about you, but I don’t think drug dealers come straight out with that to explain how they make a living. I’m pretty sure that fact would be held close to their chest.

Another point that irked me was the following morning, while D’s cooking breakfast, he suggests Niiema takes a shower before they go out for some shopping (drugs and sex toys, as it turns out). Then, a little further in, Niiema asks if she can take a shower. To me, that was a bit of a slip-up considering D had already suggested it.

There are a couple of scene separations in the story, but they are not indicated with anything – just a blank line that looks like a double space. But that’s just me nitpicking.

In all, this is a short, steamy read – it can be read in one sitting. It does get very explicit with description, so, again, if this isn’t your type of thing, I suggest you give this one a miss. Or you could learn a few things … just sayin’.

I received this book from BD Hampton in return for my honest review.