Review: Short story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2014
Close Your Eyes, Sweet Angel by M. J. Winn is quick tale about life choices and the how these choices can outline a life.Chandra’s biggest regret is also what she considers the best decision she ever made. The choice was to give her baby to grandmother because she could not support her. You see Chandra is a prostitute and, at the time that she gave the baby up, a drug user. She works in a gentleman’s club. On Valentine’s Day she starts seeing a little girl in the brothel and in the hallways of her apartment building. Once she realizes that the little girl is her daughter, she decides to change her way.I would give this book a 3 out of 5 rating. It was very well written, just not my cup of tea. I would have liked to see more depth to the character and maybe a little more to the story. The reader is actually left to draw their own conclusion at the end of the story. You could feel Chandra’s remorse about her daughter, but that is all of the emotion that you can connect with in this story.