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Trades Of The Flesh (2009)

by Faye L. Booth(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0230743412 (ISBN13: 9780230743410)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

MacMillan UK

review 1: This wasn't what I expected at all, especially with the cover it has. I was pleasantly surprised to find it a light story about the Victorian underworld; a look at prostitution and the laws surrounding learning medicine. It is set in Victorian England without shoving that fact in your face. Small details show the politics and environment it's set it. It's not about the dangers of being a Victorian prostitute or procuring corpses for medical studies, but about a girl who made a promise to her dying mother that she would do what she could to care for her sister in one of the few ways available to a young woman in Victorian England.
review 2: This is the kind of book I pick up from the library when I'm desperate--I'm totally out of reading material, the library cl... moreoses in 10 minutes, and none of the books I actually want to read are available at the branch I'm at and the books for which I've placed holds haven't been delivered yet. I grabbed several books off a fiction display and bee-lined it to check out, thinking if any or all of my random picks were awful I wouldn't read force myself to finish the books. But fortunately, it was a very quick read--I read it in a few hours--so the time commitment is minimal. It's pretty flat in terms of characters and the plot didn't live up to the back cover (really I should have known based on the front cover). I liked it well enough to finish reading, but I wouldn't recommend this book to a friend. less

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