Hold You Down
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4.0 • 10 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind…
New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s.
Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets of Harlem with an absentee mother meant that they had to have each other's backs. Now young, smart mothers they are determined to survive in New York City while raising their two sons, who have bright futures ahead of them.
Mercy is the quiet, straight laced hospital administrator, struggling to make ends meet. At night and on weekends, she pours her heart into her cooking and her dream of owning her own restaurant. Lenox is the diva, the wild child, looking for excitement and her big come up in life and love. Their boys, Deon and Judah, have been raised more like brothers than cousins, forging a bond that is unbreakable.
When Lenox heads down a path that she believes will bring success and power, it changes the entire course of her life and her family’s life forever. As a result of their mother’s choices, cousins Deon and Judah soon find themselves in uncharted territory.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
Customer Reviews
Depressing
Hold you down review
This reader is absolutely terrible. Not a voice actor at all. But more like someone who should read fairytales to second graders. Definitely not the voice you’d want to hear read a hood tragedy. Not to mention that all of her voices sound the same.
The 9 and 10 year old children’s voices sounded like they were three and four year old toddlers. Which ever two characters were conversing at any given time suddenly had the same voice, so it was difficult to follow the conversation. Her voice of Bennit was probably the most ridiculous of all. He sounded like she was trying to go for a cheap impersonation of a wiseguy, much less a real black gangster.
Also It would’ve been good for her not to record on the days when she was severely congested… it was just horrible.
OK enough of the story, if you’re looking to be severely depressed, this is a book for you. There are no real wins in the story. As we anticipated something
Good or bad happening, BAD always did. Just a very depressing book. Other than all the terrible misfortunes of the main characters in the story it was pretty boring…