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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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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 missmore
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 andmore
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