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Reviewed: Jan 24, 2010
Dark Child by Travis Hunter RAW Rating: 4.0 (out of 5) Travis Hunter is back with DARK CHILD and the taboo subject of baby selling to the highest bidder. Urban Brown is a white man who was raised in the foster care system in Atlanta along with his bi-racial sister, Jamillah. Urban counted the days and worked hard to escape the ghetto he was forced into because of the death of his parents. His sister, a once promising track star, stumbled into drugs and stayed in her own self-induced ghetto. One evening Urban receives a call from his foster mother who reveals the latest shenanigan of Jamillah’s. She has a six-month old baby boy. With a special place in his heart for children, Urban takes the child as his own. From here several developments occur: Urban’s sister wants the baby back and their foster mother wants the baby while several poor women and teenage mothers in rural Georgia are being coerced into relinquishing the rights to their children. DARK CHILD mixes intrigue with crime and passion, creating a moving and dramatic novel. The story weaves from the present to the past of the characters, so a fully developed history is told and understood. The dialogue and emotion exhibited is realistic, humorous, joyful and heartbreaking. DARK CHILD presents many questions; however, the most telling – is it truly in a child’s best interest or is it for the love of the almighty dollar. Reviewed by Dawn Reeves, RAWSISTAZ.com © Copyright 2001-2008
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