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Flyy Girl

Flyy Girl

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good One
Review: Flyy Girl was excellent. I would read it over and over. It has everything action, suspense, and love. I cried plenty while reading this book. Add it to the collection.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Tracy's the flyyest
Review: i can honestly say that Omar did a grat job on this book for him to be a male. the book was amazing and i talked about how a young girl, tracy, grew up in the fast-lane she evenually slowwed her roll but she learn a lot in her teenage years. she fell in love like eighty times, but her one true love was a guy named Victor. Read the book its great. AND big ups to Omar Tyree. YOU DID A EXCELLENT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also cheek out FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY that book is the continuation of Tracy's life as she reaches STARRdom

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Raw story
Review: I enjoyed this novel. It was very enjoyable. The story was real and at times very raw. Although the follow-up book "For the love of money" had nothing on this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Flyy Girl
Review: My name is Giselle and I thought that "Flyy girl" was a very good book I had to read that book in good week. It made me think about my life and how the characters in the book relate to me and my firends. When it comes to boys and the problems we face with girls these days. The one thing I didnt like was the ending I really thought she was going to end up with Victor when he got out of jail, But I guess it was for the best. Now I am reading "For the love of money" and so far it's good and I will be back on when I am finished to put in a book review for that book also.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not very good at all...
Review: I am a huge fan of Black Fiction. And after reading some very good work from the likes of Eric Jerome Dickey and Heather Neff, I thought I'd give Omar Tyree a try. I'd heard quite a bit about him and the premise of Flyy Girl seemed interesting enough. However, the book was aimless. It just kept going and going and going with no visible end in sight. Now, I was very disappointed in some of the various messages the book tried to convey. But hey, every black novel doesn't have to be a morality tale. Here are some of my criticisms...

1) Tracy never gets over the drug-dealing Victor. I mean, this guy is bad news all the way around. Sure, he's "cool", but that's all Victor is. Eventually for the reader to be convinced of Tracy's maturation, her infatuation with this bad-boy has to come to an end. She has to see that this guy is all "flash" and no substance. Victor who only seems to get his act together in the last page of the book by becoming a member of the Nation of Islam. And Mr. Tyree's attempt at foreshadowing this conversion to Islam was poorly handled.

2) The explanation of slang terms was awkward and unnecessary.

3) The men in Tyree's world are terribly flawed. Tracy's father is a commitmentphobe and an unrepentant womanizer. Raheema's father is emotionally and psychologically abusive. Victor is a drug-dealer. Bruce is at heart a very good guy with a level head, but Tyree makes him out to be underconfident and completely hopeless with women.

3) The subplots had some real potential. However, he never seemed to pull them off. The Mercedes story could have been so intriguing...more so than the Tracy plotline. The struggle of Raheema and her family life.

4) The final conflict of Tracy's mother and her estranged husband was too brief and too contrived. Basically in Tyree's world, men can do whatever they want, however they want, with very minor or little consequence. Tracy's father abandoned his family to maintain a pseudo-bachelor existence for 9 years. Yet, the book portrays this man as a good father...I'm sorry, but any man who walks out on his wife and daughter so he can still play the field is not a good husband or father...I particularly disliked this character.

5) The story just went on and on. Tracy bounces from one guy to another. She never grew up. It just got flat out boring.

All in all, I guess this was just barely okay for a first novel, but I hope Tyree's writing style and storytelling has matured since this effort.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Flyy Girl
Review: I read Flyy Girl twice, that goes to show how much I liked it. This book is very realistic. The characters, the situations, the settings and also the relationships are very realistic. Omar Tyree really put life into these characters each character has a different personality. As I read the book I was able to picture myself in it. I felt as if I grew up with Tracey.As if I was there through all that was goin on in her life. I would love to read more of Omars books and hopefully become a writer just like him.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best books I ever read....
Review: I think this book is really good because I feel that there are alot of teenage girls like myself that could relate to it...i have to give alot of props to Omar Tyree on this book and just keep them coming....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Flyy Girl is FLYY!
Review: The book was very interesting and unique. The characters in this novel were very different. Some were smart, outgoing, dangerous, and/or mean.
The characters that Tyree elequently placed in this book are interesting and SPICY. I loved this book because it related to non-fiction situations and people that have personal, family, and mental problems. The author made this novel as real as possible by making the characters have different personalities. For example, some characters had an attitude, nice looks, bad looks, good and bad hair, and all sorts of things.
I would love to read other books somewhat similar to this one, if it has real situations and real everyday people.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Flyy Girl
Review: This book was interesting from the beginning to the end. I was able to finish it withen a week. Flyy Girl shows the life of a girl from when she was a child until she developed into a young woman. The main character is a young girl named Tracy who goes through a lot from her preteen years to her teenage years. She goes through a numerous amount of boys which she learns a lesson from each relationship.Tracy goes through many friends and she learns about the factors of life the hard way but in the end of Traceys journey she turns out to be a well rounded young lady due to all of her expeiences through out life. I highly recommend this book to any young lady because it shows the truth about growing up and the consequences of life due to ones choices.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ...i thought i would actually like it...
Review: At first I have to say I was really into this book. As a teenaged girl myself I could relate to alot in it. But the whole "sister soldier" thing was not all necessary. I mean its good to be a proud black woman but there was no need to go into the whole "the man" phase. Heck I thought that even the sequel would be better but after reading part of it i could tell it was gonna let me down..sorry wouldn't recommend it, it was more a waste of time


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