Review: no real story to be told - needs editing help
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2013
I got this from Amazon as a free book, and being a sucker for biographies/memoirs of all kinds I tried it out. I don't recommend that you do the same.The book is mercifully short -- it's intended as a teaser for a larger book -- but also underwhelming. The writing is awkward and her stories are confusing. She attempts to give people fake names (to protect them) but then sometimes must use either their real names or a different fake name -- so suddenly, she's in a room with one other person but that person will go by 3 different names. It's confusing and honestly not worth trying to keep up with.Also, the author assumes that you understand her background and personal story so she casually drops in 'oh yeah, and I was taking care of my mother who is unable to stand or walk' as if you were expected to know that and also NOT feel indignant when she leaves her mother alone in a grocery store for hours while prostituting herself. Another assumption is that the reader has any idea how the sex industry works. She mentions that she and other 'escorts' have a driver and use hotel rooms to meet men, where they have sex on-the-hour for 8-10 hours a day to make money, but there is no explanation as to how this works. Not that I need all the "secret details" but it is otherwise confusing when she's suddenly texting people and being upset about receiving text messages from 'clients' when the appointment was set up by other people.Ultimately, I think the author wants people to read this book and accept her credentials (she includes one sentence about how she's a psychologist) and see that she's doing this as an experiment and also because she's horny and NOT because she lives in the woods and needs money to care for her infirm mother. Which would be fine, except the book is really just stories (as much as she can remember) about having sex with men for money and she throws in a couple of 'fetish' types of stories to amuse the average reader (although they are extremely mild; one guy just wants to look at her feet through a video camera).In my opinion, the sex stories aren't worth telling. She'd be better off talking about the sex business, the industry, the psychology behind it, and her personal life struggles (her mom, finances, etc.). As is, this book needs SEVERE editing, including grammar and composition - as well as story editing.