"They were more than best friends, she and Barb and Ethel. The radical, the farm girl, and the good girl; back in the world, they might
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"They were more than best friends, she and Barb and Ethel. The radical, the farm girl, and the good girl; back in the world, they might have never met each other, might never have become friends, but this war had made them sisters.�
・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・� Okay, I get the hype around The Women now. I see where everyone's coming from. I've never had a book make me ugly cry on one page and then laugh immediately after. Admittedly, I was nervous to start it because I don't read as much historical fiction as I used to, and how the topic is the Vietnam War, a war I grew up hearing about from my parents. Now that I've finished, this was refreshing to read after a month of lower to mid-tier reads for me despite its heavy content. I know it's ironic to say about a book filled with so much violence and hurt and war, but there's something about Kristin Hannah's way of writing a story and sucking me in that made it enjoyable to read.
Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse, decides to join the ANC--Army Nurses Corp--after sending her brother Finley off to fight in the Vietnam War. Her motivation? "Women can be heroes, too." Despite her parents' wishes, she enlists and goes to Vietnam where she becomes a combat nurse. She meets Barb and Ethel, her two new roommates during her time in Vietnam, both of whom are nurses. They become friends and make new memories together during a horrible time. After serving, Frankie comes back home to a country that hates her--even her family hates her--and is protesting a war that shouldn't have happened. She finds out that Vietnam War veterans are treated horribly, especially the women who served. "There were no women in Vietnam," they tell her.
I think the hardest part for me reading this was the medical procedures and injury depiction.I don't mean this in a bad way at all! Yes, the injury depictions were quite graphic at times and there were moments where I had to put the book down because I was in tears, but it didn't affect my enjoyment of the book. It hurt because this book is based on real-life events. People did suffer all of these gruesome injuries during the Vietnam War. A lot of the men who went over to Vietnam didn't even go because they wanted to; for anyone who isn't aware, there was a draft in the US for the Vietnam War. These were men--some of whom were barely out of high school--who had lives back home, dreams and aspirations, families, friends, and loved ones who cared for them.
As a healthcare professional, I think all of the medical scenes where Frankie, Barb, and Ethel are triaging patients and performing medical procedures hurt way more and hit me on a deeper level because these are the types of injuries and disease states most health sciences students learn about in school but hope to never see in real life. Yes, even I learned about different procedures and mechanical ventilation in pharmacy school! I had experience working and rounding in ICUs and emergency rooms during my clinical rotations. Although the patient cases I saw there don't even hold a candle to combat medicine and the things medical professionals in the military see daily, the procedures and treatments themselves are the same. I've also had the unpleasant experience of being there while a doctor is telling a patient's family and friends that a patient has neared the end of the line despite everything we've done to help them, and I felt Frankie's pain when she's had to do that. I hope no one reading this has to be in that position because it hurts you as much as it hurts the patient's loved ones.
I also think Kristin Hannah did a good job portraying and handling the topic of PTSD. PTSD wasn't added to the DSM until 1980 and we've made progress in how to treat it since then, but I think she did a good job of portraying the signs and symptoms of PTSD in Frankie after she came home from the war. The nightmares, the flashbacks, and Frankie's spiral into more and more erratic behavior is something that is not for the faint of heart but is unfortunately something that many people go through to this day and it doesn't even have to be from war. It's even more heartbreaking to read when she seeks help but is turned away because she is a woman and no one believes that she was over in Vietnam serving her country.
Going off of that, the way that she also portrayed the treatment of veterans after they came back home from the war is unfortunately, still a problem we have in the US today. Many veterans don't get the support they need and there's still a high rate of suicide among military veterans in the US today. There's a quote by George Washington that says, "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by our nation." There were so many times when I was reading the book and I said to myself, "Holy crap, the US treats our veterans like absolute garbage."
On a lighter note, I love, love, LOVE Frankie, Ethel, and Barb's friendship. I would be crying over one scene on one page, and then I would literally flip to the next page and Barb would make a funny joke and I'd just burst out into laughter. I love that even after they all left Vietnam to rejoin the civilian world, they still kept in touch despite thousands of miles separating all of them around the country. They have the kind of female friendship that transcends time, distance, and hardship. Whenever something happened, they were always there for each other. The amount of times Barb and Ethel would catch flights just to see Frankie throughout the book- that's the kind of female friendship we should strive to have. Their loyalty to each other was wonderful to read about.
I took one star off for a certain character whose name starts with R and rhymes with "Bye." That's it. If you know, you know. I will admit that Frankie was very quick to fall for different guys throughout the story and she had different love interests throughout the years, but I think that's just a part of being human and being in her twenties. She was 20 when she enlisted, was in her mid-twenties by the time she came home, and then was in her thirties by the end of the book with the time jump. I can see how it would take away from how powerful the overarching theme of the story is and her friendship with Barb and Ethel, but it provided a little bit of lightheartedness and romance in an otherwise heavy book in terms of its content.
Overall, this book was absolutely devastating to read, but in the best way possible. I'm so glad I took a chance on reading this and this will be a story I think about for a while. If you're on the fence about picking up a historical fiction book, I think this will be one of the books I recommend to people.
P.S. If you want to read more about the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective--I also thought that was lacking in The Women but figured it would be better to recommend this book instead since it's written by a Vietnamese author--I HIGHLY recommend The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Qu� Mai. It's one of my all-time favorite books.
P.P.S. I wanted to leave a little shoutout here to my boyfriend who helped me with all of the military abbreviations and all of the military jargon throughout the story. I learned that the helicopter on the front cover is a UH-1 which soldiers nicknamed the Huey so that's why everyone was referring to the helicopters in the story as Hueys haha! He comes from a military family like Frankie's in The Women! He's in the National Guard and his grandfather served in the Vietnam War. I know he has ŷ so maybe he'll see this review and see this note...more
“Sometimes, family isn’t just what you’re born into—it’s also what you build in the aftermath of loss.�
This was absolutely heartbreaking to read. I ha“Sometimes, family isn’t just what you’re born into—it’s also what you build in the aftermath of loss.�
This was absolutely heartbreaking to read. I have a lot to say about this, so my apologies in advance for the long review.
Some backstory: when I was a teenager, probably around 16-19 years old and even a little bit into grad school when everyone was in lockdown in 2020-2021, I was chronically on YouTube like any other Gen Z teenager/Gen Z young adult growing up. It was a wild time if you weren’t there to witness it, or perhaps you just weren't in that corner of YouTube. There was the whole Team 10 vs. Clout Gang beef (had to dig up that from the archives of my memories) in 2016-2017, beauty gurus like Manny MUA, Laura Lee, Tati, and the like were all over causing drama left and right between filming makeup tutorials in 2017-2020, influencer culture was reaching its peak, and of course, how can I forget Buzzfeed Unsolved?
One of the YouTube channels I subscribed to (and I’m still subscribed to, albeit I haven’t watched YouTube in a while because I have to do adult things now) is called Tea Spill. She, and along with a few other channels I subscribed to, were “drama� channels that objectively reported on anything suspicious or bad that was happening in the YouTube community. Occasionally they would give their brief takes on the drama and what they think about it, but for the most part, they just reported things how they saw it and would do follow-ups as necessary.
I'm pretty sure Tea Spill's channel was when I first learned about 8 Passengers and Ruby Franke; I feel like I remember watching a video she made reporting about Ruby and Kevin Franke's video about taking the door off of Chad's bedroom and making him sleep on a beanbag on the floor in their basement. I remember sitting there in complete shock wondering, "How is this going to change anything? How is this going to discipline a child over a harmless prank he pulled on his younger siblings? Isn't this too extreme? Like, shouldn't the punishment fit the crime?" In case you don't know, this punishment came about because Chad pranked his siblings into thinking they were going to Disney World. It's honestly a harmless prank I feel any older sibling would do to their younger ones.
And honestly? This isn’t just some petty beauty guru drama. This was real life. This was someone’s family, someone’s home, someone’s livelihood, that was on full display for everyone to see and this didn’t even count the horrible reality of what went on behind the scenes. While I have not seen the released police reports of the photos and Ruby’s journal, I know enough to say that absolutely no child should ever go through the physical, mental, and emotional abuse that Ruby, and eventually Jodi, put the Franke children and the Franke family through.
Looking back, I knew there was something wrong with family channels that exploited their children for views and likes. Having cameras up documenting everything that goes on in their lives was just absolutely horrible and stripped the kids of a normal childhood and privacy. 8 Passengers took that to a whole new level, and just when things couldn’t get any worse, ConneXions came into play. I remember watching these recap videos these drama channels made in complete horror as the Frankes documented things like sending their 6-year-old child to school without lunch and not bringing her any food after a teacher called home about it, canceling Christmas for the youngest Franke children and made them watch in confusion as their older siblings opened their presents, and of course, when the police finally arrested Ruby and Jodi, where Shari’s memoir begins in the prologue.
Reading this memoir made me uncomfortable, but not in a bad way. It made me uncomfortable knowing that this was the life that Shari and her siblings grew up in and she wanted to protect them but she couldn't. Shari was struggling herself under her mom's roof; I couldn't even imagine how Shari felt for years until she moved out. All Ruby saw her children as were dollar signs and were willing to exploit them for money. If they fell out of line, she beat them, screamed at them, and manipulated them into thinking they were at fault. She pulled them out of school, denying them a proper education, and her and Jodi’s ways of living isolated and broke their family in more ways than one. It was a narcissist at her finest and her peak, and Jodi only fueled that fire. It was scary to see how Ruby and Jodi essentially weaponized religion to get people to fall in line when they were probably the furthest away from being Christian themselves. Like, imagine someone telling you that talking to your coworker of the opposite sex was a sin that God wouldn't approve of, and you have to push them away and not even do something as simple as making eye contact with them or even look in their direction. It tore multiple families apart, even the Frankes.
Some quotes hit me hard:
“No child should ever have to earn a parent’s affection. And no amount of achievement can ever fill the void where unconditional lover should be.�
“For a moment the terror lingers—even in the afterlife, will I never be free of her?�
“It felt like I was waking up from a long, hazy dream. The fog was lifting, and in its place was a blinding, brilliant truth: It wasn’t me. It had never been me. The dysfunction, the chaos…it was all Ruby. It always has been.�
The only questions running through my head the entire time were, “Why didn’t anyone do anything about this? Why did it have to take Shari to call CPS and take matters into her own hands for anything to get done?� For example, the teacher who called Ruby to let her know that her youngest daughter forgot her lunch at home…TEACHERS ARE MANDATED REPORTERS! HOW DID THE TEACHER NOT THINK TO REPORT THIS TO ANYONE? I know she mentions later on that her neighbors started putting calls into CPS as well, but I really hope that they were reaching out to them way before that instead of being bystanders watching literal crimes unfold in that household.
(Also, as a licensed healthcare professional, how did Jodi get away with practicing without a license for so long? Did no one see her questionable teachings/methods/practices and think, "Oh yeah, uh, this seems really wrong. Maybe I should do some research into her before I start taking classes from her and dumping thousands and thousands of dollars on them?" Maybe it's just me because I know how all of this works from the inside, but if a pharmacist, nurse practitioner, PA, etc. practiced without a license or got their license suspended, everyone and their mom would know by the end of the week in some way, shape, or form. Like, it's literally public record if you have disciplinary actions on your license.)
My heart absolutely broke when Shari spoke about her depression and the root of it being Ruby herself. Don’t get me wrong, there were probably about 10 times throughout the book when I started crying, which is honestly a personal record out of any book I’ve read. But that hit me so hard, especially since Ruby told her that she was pulling her out of therapy because the “doctor said so.� I still believe that Ruby made that part of it up because it wasn’t part of her “picture-perfect� image of the family she put online for everyone to see. I see a lot of myself in Shari to some extent when she spoke about her need for validation and perfection since I'm like that to some extent. It was one of the only ways she would be able to receive approval from Ruby. If she fell out of line, she would be reprimanded, so the best way to cope was to follow along. It was amazing to see her character growth and her determination to break off from Ruby's regime and do better for herself, her siblings, and her future.
This was one of my most anticipated reads of 2025, and I can say that it did not disappoint. It was so satisfying to watch her grow into the person that she wants to be with a steady support system around her, and I’m so glad she’s in a much better place now and put her story out into the world. I can imagine that it feels so liberating for Shari to put this out into the world and talk about her perspective and experience on everything that's happened to her. I'll stand by the belief that Ruby and Jodi should've gone to prison for life instead of their actual sentences. Additionally, as someone in New York reading this, I hope that the "free-range parenting" law in Utah that Shari talks extensively about towards the end of the book changes because of something like this happening to the Franke family. I can only hope that her other siblings are also okay and will be able to heal from this part of their lives and become a family once again.
5 stars
Trigger warnings: emotional, physical, and mental abuse towards minors and children, child abandonment, narcissism, grooming/extreme age-gap relationship, mentions of suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety, panic attacks -- December 30th, 2024: I added this book to my Book of the Month box so this will be worth the wait since my box won’t ship until this is officially published. January 7th can’t come soon enough....more
"Happiness couldn’t be won. It couldn’t be hung around our necks while a crowd of thousands cheered. It wasn’t a prize, something we had to suffer
"Happiness couldn’t be won. It couldn’t be hung around our necks while a crowd of thousands cheered. It wasn’t a prize, something we had to suffer and toil to earn. If we wanted happiness, we had to create it ourselves. Not in one shining moment on a medal stand, but every single day, over and over again.�
⋆꙳•❅*°⋆❆.ೃ࿔*:�*� ₊⋆⋆꙳•❅*°⋆❆.ೃ࿔*:�*� ₊⋆⋆꙳•❅*°⋆❆.ೃ࿔*:�*� ₊⋆ Holy crap. I don't know the last time I stayed up until 2 AM to finish a book, and that says a lot. I think I have a book hangover after finishing this and the last time I had one was when I finished The Thirteenth Child back in November 2024. I understand the hype now, and I think The Favorites might be my favorite book I've read this month. This needs to be turned into a Netflix series or just a show in general on any streaming platform to fill the void that Spinning Out left in me after the show got canceled. The Favorites was quite the read after my last disappointing read and review.
To start off the actual review, I want to say that the book is formatted similarly to Daisy Jones & The Six where there's bits and pieces of "interview style" dialogue since there's some characters that participate in a documentary about Kat and Heath's skating career. The story alternates between Kat's version of events and the documentary where the producer and some of the side characters give their take and interpretation of events. If you liked DJATS and its fast-paced, high drama storyline, you'll absolutely eat The Favorites up. I found myself continually turning the pages wanting to find out what happens next, and the short chapters (they were all around 5 pages or less) helped to make it a page-turner of a book. I don't remember the last time I got lost in a book like that, and that's one of the "wow" factors that the books I read need to have to reach 5-star status for me. The other "wow" factor is if there's any part of the story that made an impact on my life or made me think about life, and The Favorites did this, too. There's more about that towards the end of this review.
Growing up (and still to this day), I watch the figure skating portion of the Winter Olympics. I wasn't a skater myself, but I loved seeing all the glittery costumes, the way these skaters are so in sync with each other, the way they perform all of these lifts and jumps and turns to a soundtrack playing over the speakers and make it look so easy even though it takes years of practice and perfection to get where they are today...I loved all of it. Reading about Heath and Kat reminded me of Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue from the Canadian Olympic team (except Scott and Tessa probably didn't have a crazy, toxic relationship behind the scenes and off the ice). Bella and Garrett Lin reminded me of Alex and Maia Shibutani from the American Olympic team. I'm not sure if this was the vibe that Layne Fargo was going for, but for what it's worth, my brother--who doesn't even read or watch figure skating in the Olympics--read the synopsis and even HE got the same Scott and Tessa vibes from Heath and Kat. I'm probably not the first person to make this connection but just wanted to put it out there.
The story was filled with drama that made it feel like a Netflix show. There were so many twists and turns, so many betrayals, so much heartbreak, and so much emotion. In the words of that Marie Kondo meme, "I'm so excited because I love mess!" I loved reading about Kat and Heath's beginnings in a small Midwestern town to making it big and going international. You could sense the passion and dedication between them, but you could also sense Kat's determination to be the best ice dancer the world has ever seen. You got to see it all- the ups and downs of not only Kat and Heath's careers but their relationship off the ice. I don't get attached to characters, but I could feel Kat's emotions coming off the page. I felt her rage when she lost, her triumph when she won competitions, and her anger when the people she loved and cared about betrayed her trust or did her wrong.
The one thing I will say is that there is a specific subplot/trope that happens towards the end of the story that just pissed me off to no end. To avoid spoilers, I'm not going to say what it is, but it flat-out made me uncomfortable. All I'll say about it is that it IS in the trigger warnings that I always list at the end of my reviews and Kat was definitely justified in her reaction to said instances (I, too, would also throw a chair across the room if I was her). I was debating whether or not to take a star off my overall rating because of it, but I decided not to because my enjoyment of the rest of the story outweighed that specific subplot.
(Also just as a side note, I feel bad for Garrett. He's like a pure cinnamon roll character who did nothing wrong. He's like that one guy in that Vine that's at Waffle House saying, "Can I get a waffle? Can I PLEASE get a waffle?!" while he watches the 2 Waffle House employees beat each other up. The employees are Kat and Heath and Bella's off to the side cleaning the counter.)
As some of you may already know, I usually don't start my reviews with a quote unless it's something that hits home for me. I know if most people are going to quote anything from the book for their review of The Favorites, it's probably going to be one of the many quotes that Kat has throughout the story about her wanting to win and establish herself as a gold medalist at the Olympics. Or maybe it's a quote that shows off her competitive nature and how she's willing to do anything to win. I chose a different quote at the beginning of my review. It's not because I wanted to be "different" or go off the beaten path, but to talk a little bit about how the quote resonated with my personal life. I feel like that specific quote was the overarching message and "lesson" of the story and what Kat ultimately learns about life.
As someone who went to grad school to become a pharmacist, competition and competitive people were not a foreign concept to me. My class could've probably had its own Netflix series based on the amount of drama, lies, blackmail (yeah, blackmail), and toxicity that went on behind the scenes of smiley friend groups at school who all secretly hated each other and haven't spoken a word to each other after graduation. I've seen firsthand how competition tears people apart and it's devastating to see. I feel like a lot of people with a competitive nature--myself included, to an extent--tend to have the idea that you always want to seek out the next big thing, that next big accolade or trophy or award or title or major milestone because that's what's going to make you happy and fulfilled in life. But what happens when you finally achieve that goal? Do you seek out the next big thing and decide that your life will only be better once you achieve that? Or is there a point where you finally decide and come to the realization that there are more ways to be happy and content in life beyond that professional/academic validation? What happens when you reach the point where you go, "What now?"
In reality, that's not always going to be the case, and we see that with Kat's story in The Favorites. You might end up knocking down or hurting people along the way to get where you want to be, and that's what Kat, Heath, and Bella all did in this story...multiple times. They've all hurt each other in various ways and it was all in the name of either glory and fame or for straight-up revenge and to one-up each other. On the flip side, they've also all suffered to get where they want to be, and no one should have to knock others down or personally suffer to be a happy person or achieve happiness. At the end of the day, your medals, trophies, titles, accolades, money, fame, fortune, glory, etc. are never going to love you back. If you want to find love or happiness in the world, you have to create it yourself, and I think that's such a powerful message to have in a story.
I'm so glad I gave The Favorites a chance, and you should too. I've pretty much recommended this book to everyone and their mom since finishing it. I look forward to reading more from Layne Fargo in the future and I'm glad that this book has now been officially inducted and added to my "All Time Favorites" shelf on ŷ. This is the kind of story that will stay with me for a while because it is so memorable, and I hope that it does that for anyone else who reads it, too.
5 stars -- Trigger warnings:death of family members, foster care, mentions of abusive families/neglectful parents or guardians, drugging/poisoning, alcoholism, drug abuse and overdose, physical abuse, mentions of homophobia, hospitalization, detailed descriptions of injuries, blood, sabotage/blackmail, cheating/adultery, cancer, outing someone, difficult pregnancy, brief mentions of sexual content/sexual encounters (but nothing on-page or open door)...more
The fact that reading this put me to sleep for a solid 3-4 hours because absolutely nothing remotely interesting happened until the last few chapters The fact that reading this put me to sleep for a solid 3-4 hours because absolutely nothing remotely interesting happened until the last few chapters of the book should probably say enough about how I feel about it.
4 stars --- Trigger warnings: pedophilia, murder, domestic abuse/violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, You're Invited was WILD
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4 stars --- Trigger warnings: pedophilia, murder, domestic abuse/violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, abortion (it's mentioned, but none of the characters go through with an abortion procedure), death of a family member, incarceration, illegal drug use/drug addiction, age-gap relationships with a minor, elitism, blackmail, self-harm...more
Here I go again, reading another hyped-up BookTok book thinking I, too, will also like it but instead, I was left feeling conflicted about whether or Here I go again, reading another hyped-up BookTok book thinking I, too, will also like it but instead, I was left feeling conflicted about whether or not I do which seems to be the running theme with a lot of the books I've read this summer. Maybe part of it is because there are so many other people saying that they loved the book and so that means you have to love it too or there's something wrong with you, but to put this out there and make it crystal clear right off the bat: I don't think it was a horrible story or anything like that. However, I do believe there are two big things that prevented me from fully loving the story as so many others did:
1. The writing style: I feel like it's almost common knowledge in the bookish community at this point that Daisy Jones and the Six was written in an interview style where each character will pitch in their own thoughts as the interviewer is asking them questions. I knew that going into the book, but I felt that the interview style made it difficult for me to get hooked easily (compared to TJR's other books I have read) as I was struggling to keep up with all the characters and who they are as they were introduced for the first time.
Add on to the fact that the book was set up as each section is a different era of the band's history and everyone just going back and forth giving their thoughts on what was going on during that time (we're talking almost every line was a different character commenting unless they had a lot to say) vs. each character getting their own section dedicated to their commentary made it a little confusing to follow along with at times. In retrospect, I feel like it makes the most sense to have it set up the way it is in the book and have all of the commentary flow together. Giving each character their own section would probably make for a much more boring read since it would be reading about the same events from like, 10+ people's perspectives would be a bit much, but it would've made it easier to keep track of all the characters from the get-go.
However, I will say that there were times when I forgot that Daisy Jones and the Six weren't actually a real band (although there is speculation that they're based on Fleetwood Mac). Going off of that, I feel like that's when you start to know that a book is good-when the lines start to blur between fiction and reality-so I did get hooked eventually, it just didn't happen as quickly for me as it did for other people. If anyone was wondering, it wasn't until around the part where the band started to write the Aurora album that I felt a little more invested in the story. If you read the book, you'll know that's not until about halfway through the book. Maybe it's because that was when I finally figured out who was who in the story and what their role was or maybe that's when I knew the plot was going to pick up, but other than that, the first ~150 pages felt like a drag to me.
2. The characters: I just couldn't bring myself to actually feel attached to any of the characters. Usually, this isn't a make-or-break sort of deal for me when it comes down to rating a book because I know what I'm reading is fiction, but I feel like for a book to have so many main characters and a plot that involves the characters reflecting on their past experiences and emotions about being part of a world-renowned rock band while laying it all out in an interview, that feeling like you're emotionally attached to some (or all) of them would make your reading experience better. I will say that I think we can all come to the conclusion that Billy was an asshole that had a "my way or the highway" attitude about his band and his bandmates were getting fed up with it all and that's how resentment builds until the tension finally reaches its peak and things start to go downhill and if there's one character I didn't like at all in this story, it was Billy.
If there were any characters I liked, it was the women in the story: Daisy, Camilla, and Karen. I loved Daisy's unapologetic, (maybe a little too) carefree attitude towards life and how she challenged Billy, Camilla for her "I'll tell you how it is" attitude and the love she had for her family, and Karen because 1. she plays the piano and that's just biased because I also play the piano lol, and 2. for Karen's line of "Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people." and to that I say, SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
Overall, this was one of those books that was an "It's not you, it's me" sort of read for me. It was an enjoyable read once I was able to get into it; unfortunately, it took almost half of the book for me to feel that way. After reading this book along with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising, I feel like if I read Daisy Jones and the Six first before reading TJR's other books I wouldn't have paid much attention to the writing style and how it was written like an interview the entire time.
P.S. Is Mick Riva going to be mentioned in every book in the TJR historical fiction universe at this point because he is a trashcan of a human being...even if he's fictional.
3 stars -- Trigger warnings: abortion, absent parent/neglectful parent, alcoholism and alcohol consumption, addiction, adultery/cheating, death of a friend, death of a family member, drug use...more
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