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1/5⭐ It's a very strange narrative voice that felt like the experience of an ADHD train of thought in narrative form. The omniscient narrator would enter a room, hone in on a particular person or detail, get sidetracked into a different time and/or space describing the history of the character or historical relevance of an object, eventually return to the room, and then do the same thing with every single character/object in the scene. O_O

Rating: 2.5 Stars!!
Review:
I hated how mean the characters were to the man character and how the storyline never picked up.

Starting Book 3 of October and Book 146 of 2020!!!

During a cholera epidemic in 19th-century England, a fifteen-year-old girl takes on two jobs - one of which is to be a "dress lodger" at night - to take care of her young baby boy and herself. This is historical fiction as I like it best: richly-detailed, complex, and gritty, vividly depicting the social stratification among people of different classes.

#SheWorksHardForTheMoney #FierceFeb @Cinfhen

#readjanuary- #DressesOnCovers (and in titles)

I read this book quite a while ago, but I remember loving it.

This is not at all the kind of book it says on the back cover. I was so surprised to find out what the story was like. It was ok. But the detailed describtion of surgeries and the life of an prostitute during historical London made it a bit difficult to read and at parts it was so gross.

Just finished this one on audio -- the author did a fine job with descriptions of both characters & setting. It was easy to imagine myself there. The difficulties of medical professionals of the time was interesting. However the plot was a bit slow.

Just finished the first chapter of this audiobook. Intriguing storyline but not sure about the narrator addressing the audience ???