Review: From Underground Book Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
In the opening scene of Birthdays of a Princess, a girl named Tiara viciously attacks and maims a woman in a Vancouver Starbucks and cannot recall why. Tiara is placed into custody, refusing to see her mother, and an aging detective sets out to identify the victim and understand what motivated the attack. The story of Tiara’s upbringing in Texas participating in child beauty pageants and what Tiara and her mother thought was modeling work is parsed out in bits through Tiara’s returning memory, the investigative breakthroughs of the detective, and the partial recollections of Tiara’s mother, who ceded much of Tiara’s upbringing and career management to her sister-in-law, Gracie....read more at UndergroundBookReviews(dot)com