Review; A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown

I was raised to read as many different genre books as I could. I always love to read fantasy, horror and especially memoirs.
A Piece of Cake was actually recommended to me by a friend when I was wanting to get rid of a Waterstone's voucher that I had kept for a while. Just the look of it caught my eye, I ordered it not knowing what it was about or how dark it really was going to be.
Of course this wasn't my first memoir book.

I had first read A Child Called 'It' when I was quite young, and for anyone who hasn't read it, I suggest you go to a library and rent it or just buy it because it's brutal and sickening, but at the same time, it's a book you find hard to put down. 

Anyway back to A Piece of Cake. The book is about the author Cupcake Brown, starting from the age of 11 after the death of her mother, things sadly took a deep spiralling into a dark and adult work. She was living in a foster home where she was neglected and sexually abused resulting in a strong desire and appetite for alcohol and drugs fed by hustling.
After becoming a gangster when taken in by distant relatives her rapid decent into an addiction of crack cocaine ended up saving her from her death.

I have read this quite a few times, and every single time I just cannot believe that Cupcake Brown is alive and now working in one of America's largest law firms.

An inspiration and warning to people reading it.