Review: Brilliant!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
I am stymied. I cringed at the opening pages. Should I have been surprised? No, that wasn't it. It was just so ... so ... crude? Sexist? Politically incorrect? Did this writer have a clue what she was doing? Or is it that this just isn't my thing? I decided to keep an open mind and give it the benefit of the doubt as I kept turning the pages. In spite of my initial reaction I found myself pulled into this story of a single mother abandoned by her husband desperate to make some kind of living in a world where getting the bills paid has always been up to her. This book however is no cliche. Her husband has her hundreds of dollars in debt over herbal supplements that were supposed to make their fortune but instead make everyone sick with diarrhea. He joins a cult and his character remains as much a mystery to the reader as it does to her. She applies for a job at a record company through a temp agency both of which made my skin crawl. As she goes through the flow however it becomes clear that this is no picnic for her either... but she is not about to be anybody's victim. The author is a brilliant writer who is clever enough to dance with words so doesn't leave typos or grammatical errors to create confusion. Some scenes were so funny I laughed out loud... my kind of humor, a rare treat! Recommended for players, pimps, tricks, hoes .... and oh yeah, feminists.