Steve McCondichie
Author of Lying for a Living
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The Parlor Girl's Guide by Steve McCondichie
The Parlor Girl's Guide sounded interesting. Unfortunately, the story fell short in so many ways. The plot seemed off somehow, like the individual parts didn't equal a whole coherent story. The characters were flat and lacking much development at all. I didn't connect with the story in any way. It's not for me. Thanks to NetGalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review.
The Parlor Girl’s Guide by Steve McCondichie
Disturbing tale of a young girl taken from her home to pay a debt her father, a sharecropper, owed. Her life had been miserable but something she knew well until she found herself in a house of ill repute and then much indeed changed. With drugs on board, entertaining to be done, people holding power over her and little say in her own life she was making the best of things until one day she had enough. Molly Lingo and Cotton Arnold met at where she worked and hit the road together after an altercation. Their experiences once they left were interesting and yet uncomfortable to read at times. Set in Alabama in the 1920’s this story told of poor people preyed upon and landholders who did the preying. I found it a bit difficult to read as it jumped around at times and I often wanted more information about the characters...and especially about what Molly and Cotton did after the book ended...I felt the story had stopped but it had not ended with a known future for the two of them.
Thank you to NetGalley and Southern Fried Karma for the ARC – this is my honest review
3-4 Stars… (more)
Disturbing tale of a young girl taken from her home to pay a debt her father, a sharecropper, owed. Her life had been miserable but something she knew well until she found herself in a house of ill repute and then much indeed changed. With drugs on board, entertaining to be done, people holding power over her and little say in her own life she was making the best of things until one day she had enough. Molly Lingo and Cotton Arnold met at where she worked and hit the road together after an altercation. Their experiences once they left were interesting and yet uncomfortable to read at times. Set in Alabama in the 1920’s this story told of poor people preyed upon and landholders who did the preying. I found it a bit difficult to read as it jumped around at times and I often wanted more information about the characters...and especially about what Molly and Cotton did after the book ended...I felt the story had stopped but it had not ended with a known future for the two of them.
Thank you to NetGalley and Southern Fried Karma for the ARC – this is my honest review
3-4 Stars… (more)
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