Shameek Speight “The Pleasure of Pain” A Review

In this twisted tale you will be introduced to Tess, Iris, Vanessa, Ebony and Bless who find out that The Pleasure of Pain is a true testament that we always want what we shouldn’t have. Tess is a strong determined business woman by the day and queen of the streets by night. She will stop at nothing to get the life she wants for herself and her three best friends along with her man, even if it means breaking old bonds and creating lifetime enemies. What she doesn’t realize is in the game of cut- throat there are no rules. Bless emerges on the scene after being recently released from prison only to find that things are not the way they were before he got locked up. The worst part is the person he has to fight is the person he least expected would betray him. He is out for blood and hell bent on destroying anyone who gets in his way. Iris is secretly in love with Tess, but plays the friend card in order to get closer to her. She knows that Tess is in love with another man, however that doesn’t stop her from plotting to get Tess’ heart. Vanessa and Ebony are sisters who share the same father and they happen to be Tess’ top lieutenants. Their loyalty and love run deep for Tess and has never been questioned until now… With pleasure there is always a little pain as Tess and her girlfriends will soon find out. Will they break under pressure or will they show why women rule the world?
First off lets just say this book was all that and more.

 I enjoyed this book. Shameek Speight outdid himself. I was expecting this author to be a woman and was surprised it was a man. For an male he did a great job portraying these women. From the first page I was hooked. The set up of the book was just great there was no unnecessary information or spot filling in the book.


This story had me on the edge of my seat! It was full of action. It was a little heavy on the sex scenes but if you can get over that, is definitely worth the read. Bless a young hot drug dealer in the right place at the right time meets a young Tess & Iris and quickly become friends things go wrong not long after and that’s when thing pop off  and the Crew is formed. As Bless is Released from prison he has a feeling things are not right. Secrets, Love, and Lust are all the things this book holds Shameek does not hold back . I really want to wright more but its so many little things that can be called spoilers. This book was 5 stars and I automatically 1 clicked part 2