Review: The 5 star reviews are puzzling
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
The character Rose begins as a child in an inexplicably abusive household. After running away, she falls providentially into the hands of a kind stranger who, coincidentally, just happened to have lost his wife and a child just Rose’s age in a car wreck. He takes her in, christening her ‘Tink’.  He, in turn, was conveniently killed off in order to propel her ahead into the next contrived situation whereupon she was taken in by a heart-of-gold whore with a benevolent pimp who used “Babygirl,’ as she was now known, as a tease but was never required to put out. When her friend ‘Precious’ was killed atrociously by some evil johns and she decided to leave the business, she did so with the full blessing of Frank the pimp and a gift of $10,000. From there it was another leap into serendipitous events, convenient and useful acquaintances and yet another unproblematic change of identity. Somewhere through all this, she contracted some fatal disease that was never identified but found a way to make it back through a swamp to find her father and bestow upon him her forgiveness before dramatically expiring in the arms of her unrequited boyfriend.The entire tale was random and contrived. The stilted dialogue, the cavalier explanations of implausible chains of events and the lack of punctuation, particularly in regard to commas and proper nouns, left me feeling that the author had no real commitment to crafting a readable story.