Lola

Melissa Scrivner Love
Contemporary Fiction
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Lola is power, beauty, brains, and violence in  cargo pants and a wife beater.  She is always armed, hungry, and in charge…until she isn't…then she is usually in a trunk or getting the shit beat out of her.    I read for enjoyment, to escape, to learn, to be entertained and Lola does that for sure.  It is character driven, with Lola at the center.  She is the matriarch of her family, her gang, and her community.  She rules from the shadows until she is outed by her brother Hector, who is her Achilles heel.  She is by all standards a ball buster, with a true sense of justice and delivers it without blinking.  She befriends the weakest "Lucy and Valentine"  and truly sees herself as Noah building the ark.  She wants to make her community a better place free from cartel and possibly all men if she had her way.   She is and wants to be the Alpha. A great story laced with violence and a heavy nod to gender and race  equality.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read for a fair review.