Review: Let me "Echo" the other reviewers:  This book is really good!  @badwordplay
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2014
I don’t know what is going on with me exactly, but this is the second book that I have read recently centered on the world of prostitution.  Hmm…  It is also the second book that I have read recently by this author, Budd Severs.  And I have to say, this book, and Scales of the Rainbow Serpent are wildly different.  Imagine if after Django Unchained, Tarantino said “You know what I want to do now?  Show tunes!”  …..I would totally watch that movie.Anyway, this story centers around Echo, a young girl who ran away from home with her sister after her mother passes away, to escape the mother’s abusive boyfriend.  Echo turns to prostitution to survive, and after her sister Erin dies, Echo and her pimp go back to the farm, to face whatever is coming.I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised at this book.  This book is somehow more lighthearted and fun than Scales, while at the same time much darker in tone.  This book is billed as a Satire, and I do see that, but it is so bizarre, that I have trouble pegging it in that way.  It is also interesting the way that the previous book (Multicolored Snake Skin) was more focused on the setting, and the tone and the story of the book was largely based around the setting, but this book (Resonance in a Dream: Sex something something) is much more character focused.  While the former book did have good characters, Echo and her cadre of friends, acquaintances, and enemies, are much more compelling and interesting to read.If I had to pit this author’s two books together, then it would be ridiculous, because books can’t fight to the death, especially Kindle books. But, I have to say, I enjoyed this book for its story that is bizarre, and unsettling at times.  I highly recommend it.