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Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love

Lola

by Melissa Scrivner Love

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  • Mar 2017, 336 pages
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  • Marybeth T. (Bellingham, WA)
    I was a little underwhelmed
    I guess my expectations were a little high. Lola being compared to Lisabeth Sanders in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a bit of a stretch for me. It was an okay read. I really enjoyed the LA setting. The characters fell a little flat for me. It wasn't the page turner I was hoping for.
  • Barbara H. (Thomasville, GA)
    Millenial read!
    I had a hard time getting through this book - I kept putting it down and going back hoping it would get better but I felt the storyline kept bogging down. This is a book for the new millennial generation...not my cup of tea. I read mostly thrillers however this book simply did not have what it takes to keep me interested. Lola was a great character and very believable in our world today, however the story felt empty and lacking in substance.
  • LS - Westford, MA
    Disappointed
    The book was fast-paced and at times, suspenseful. The main character in the story evokes sympathy and pity but at the same time, dislike.

    Perhaps my reaction to the book was ignorance in a lifestyle that is very foreign to what I know. I was disappointed in the book because of the writing style, and the need to keep the narrator or descriptors beyond the character voices in the same rough and crude vernacular, in what was possibly the author's intent to make the story more dramatically realistic. The timeline of the story was at times confusing. I had to go back and reread sections to make sure I didn't miss something. I thought the main character was flawed and not believable. The racial and sexist references in the book, woven through the story as an attempt to legitimize the main characters' behavior, seemed overdone.
  • Dottie B. (Louisville, KY)
    Lola
    Stieg Larsson changed the way readers view female sleuths when he introduced the unforgettable Lisbeth Salander. More recently Taylor Stevens follows the model with her character Vanessa Michael Munroe, motorcycle rider and world-traveling mercenary. These hardnosed anti-heroines are damaged, tough, practical, smart, and, yes, admirable. Unfortunately Melissa Scrivener Love's character Lola (also the title of the novel) doesn't quite measure up. Growing up in Huntington Park Los Angeles with a drug-addicted mother, Lola necessarily learns survival skills early. By virtue of her ability to kill swiftly and unsuspectingly, she becomes the de facto head of a small-time barrio gang. But in the end Lola is trapped by her ghetto mentality. I wanted to admire Lola's qualities—her street smarts, her protection of young Lucy, her ability to thrive within her environment. Yet I left the novel knowing that although Lola's skills enabled her to survive the rough streets of Huntington Park, she would not persevere in the larger world.
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