Book Review: In Him I Trust by NAKO Robinson

Yall...I love a long book. A Worthy Love by AE Valdez is 15 hours, 400+ pages, and is worth every second. This book is 14 hours of...something...

Trust...the MMC. We meet him as a misguided teen getting into trouble with his cousin Kendrick trying to hide from the cops at his friend Jasira's house. Later in the book, he has become a boxer with Kendrick as his manager and Kendrick's sister Paige as his publicist. Kendrick is a leech. He spends Trust's money like it's his. Yall know how people have entourages, right? Trust has one, and it's huge. $8K at the bar...and Trust wasn't even there.

FMC...Initially I thought it was Jasira but no...it's Whitney, the Olivia Pope of the book. She is all busy and is called in to handle things when Trust's life gets turned upside down based on a lie. He's in love with Jasira though, but she's playing games.

The lie? Abuse. Spread by a girl that got dismissed when she got too attached in like the 1st chapter.

But before we get too far, early in the book Trust finds Christ. I was not expecting that. This book gets churchy. It's filled with all the Christian sayings I grew up with. That came out of left field, especially with all the hunching, drinking, smoking, and cursing they doing. Oh, and that continues throughout the book. But, hey...

After the allegations come out, and he refuses to apologize for something he didn't do, he's suspended for 2 years. You know who checked on that man?

Nobody from his entourage, including family. And this is why you can't call everybody family. I mean he did change his number and fly to Jamaica but still. Trust centers his faith and makes changes to align with who he wants to be versus who he was. When he comes back, he realizes that Kendrick is not as solid as he thought he was, so he cleans house and starts over.

His new team, which includes Whitney, works PR magic and gets him back in the public's good graces. Whitney is praying for a man, while Trust is afraid to even be in the same car as a woman. His avoidant behavior is understandable but annoying as hell, but they figure it out. His mind to member connection was all but dead, and Whitney was acting like a dog in heat. Grief allows him to open up to her in more ways than one. Been there before, so I get it.

I don't even know what else to say honestly. There are so many insignificant characters that I could hardly keep up.

Favorite Quote: Growth can't happen without movement.

Trust realizes that you can't always go back to the way things were. After you know, you can't unknow. You know to push forward with knowledge that is sometimes painful.

Thank God I've moved on from this book. Now I'm not saying don't read it, but if you walk away feeling less than...don't say I didn't warn you.