You Can't Knock Wahida's Hustle!!!!
By Hotchklate "Coast2CoastReaders" (Bronx, N.Y.)

Wahida Clark is back with a banger!!! All Wahida's fans know that Payback is a Mutha was originally titled Don't Knock The Hustle but it's release took so long that another author utilized that title. But please believe that even with a different title Payback is still All That!!!!

Payback follows two best friends Brianna and Shan whose attitudes on life are totally different. Both women are dime pieces but Brianna manipulates men to get ahead while Shan would rather earn an honest living. Through it all their friendship remain strong until one of Brianna's hustles places both girl's backs up against the wall.

Brianna's trickery causes a domino effect that not even she can withstand, forcing Shan to become a player in a game she usually watched from the side lines. While Brianna finally sees the wrong in her actions but not before having to deal with Payback in it's most brutal form.

Payback is a Mutha is full of deceit, treachery, sex, murder and mayhem and is sure to place Ms. Clark back on The Essence Best Seller's List where she belongs!!!

Karma is a mutha too!!!
By The Wifey (Upper Marlboro, MD)

This was my first book by the author and I was skeptical at first. That all ended once she introduced the many players in this urban drama. The main characters are Brianna "B" and Shan - and both are as different as night and day. B stays fly and with weaves and designer gear by "playin' the playa's". While Shan earns her living the honest way - with a j-o-b. However, when B plays the wrong playa in an attempt to get some "payback" innocent bystanders get "caught up" and the lives of those close to her are held in the balance. Is it too late for B to make things right???

Also on hand are a bevy of characters - Shadee, Forever, Nyla, Peanut (Shan's brother), Skye, Zeke - and their backstories and you've got a drama packed with drama, drama and more drama.

Take a trip and read this tale of payback and karma. I literally could not put this book down - I was reading every spare moment I could.

Kudos to the auther for weaving a most enjoyable tale...granted there were many "players" in this story and they were hard to keep up with. However I commend the author for mixing all of the characters - and their drama - into tightly knit tale!!!

I look forward to reading more books from this author....

OFF DA HOOK
By Naadira (Phila. PA)

This was an excellent book! The characters were as gritty and grimey as they could be. And Real! There are so many brothas living on the low like shadee I wanted to whoop his A**. And so many women like Brianna that think they are playas and only getting played. So many women like Shan who get so jammed up with life's situations that if they do think about the consequences of their actions it just a passing thought. I was glad that Brianna for once thought of someone other than herself. The book kept me on the edge every moment and I finished it in one day! Keep doing what you doing Wahida from a fellow Trentonian!!!!!