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Renee Blossom

Autor de Goodbye, Good Girl

2 Obras 27 Miembros 6 Reseñas

Obras de Renee Blossom

Goodbye, Good Girl (2017) 22 copias
This Is You, This Is Me (2018) 5 copias

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I was given an advanced copy of Goodbye, Good Girl by Renee Blossom through netgalley for an honest review. I first off would like to thank Pikko’s house/Revolve along with the author for the opportunity to read this novel.
Kandace is an eighteen-year-old girl who just want to do write by her family. I found the first few chapters of this book really sad because I feel like a young girl should have to do so much to have to take care of her family. I understand that a girl needs answers and I understand that a father has to make a living but I felt that there was so much secrecy that the father daughter bond that should have been there just wasn’t.
As the story progresses Kandace is left by her boyfriend Kyle on her way to California and she is forced to continue the journey alone. I enjoyed the Character of April the girl who gets her into stripping and I enjoyed the story even though some people might find it a little too much I thought it was on the tame side since I don’t think all strippers are treated as well as these two girls were. The only downfall to this story for me is I wish that the father would have either don more to support her or at least not been so judgmental of her life style choices considering he was the reason she started this journey to begin with. Overall a 4-star rating from me. I look forward to reading more from the author.
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b00kdarling87 | 5 reseñas más. | Jan 7, 2024 |
What starts as a story about a young woman trying to hold her family together with absentee parents becomes a confusing coming-of-age story with a lack of true direction. I was unable to finish Goodbye, Good Girl after finding myself unable to keep up with the characters and unsure of what the book's direction was really meant to go in. I felt like we only saw the true Kandace when she was pole dancing or thinking about pole dancing, otherwise she was as unreliable as narrators come. Her reactions, her dialogue, her way of approaching life is confusing, and though that's true of many, I didn't feel like any of this rang true to reality. I expected depth and a story worth reading, but I didn't find any of that.

Ultimately, I am giving Goodbye, Good Girl two stars, as I did make it farther than I expected to. I think it has promise, it's the kind of book that has a story within its pages, just needs some true editing and a single story line to follow.
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CarleneInspired | 5 reseñas más. | Jun 14, 2019 |
Kandace Santellan life is not an easy one. Her mother is addicted to opioids following a major car accident and Kandace is tasked with taking care of her unwell mother and her two younger sisters. Her dad has not been around for the past two years due to his job, which Kandace does not fully understand. Right now, she is the glue holding her family together. She scrimps and saves every last penny, not earning nearly enough as a professional pole dance instructor, in order to take care of her family. All her friends have moved on to college, something that is not attainable for her at this time.

Kandace is really missing her father and she does not understand why he can’t be there for her and the family during their time of need. Sure, he sends home money when he can, but it is never enough. His job is clouded in secrecy and she does not even know where he is living. Things take a turn for the worst when a strange man packing a weapon shows up at her front door demanding information on her father’s whereabouts. Fearing for her family and for her father, she packs up her sisters and sends them to stay with her aunt Vivian, her mother’s sister, while she takes a road trip with her boyfriend trying to get to California to find her father. Kandace feels she is the only one who can help him.

Too bad her boyfriend gets called back home and Candace refuses to leave after their ten hour journey from Pittsburgh. In St Louis, not sure what the next move should be, Kandace winds up being targeted by April, a local pole dance stripper. Life suddenly takes a turn for Kandace and not in a good way or is it? Will Kandace make it out before it is too late? Or will she find herself and accept who she has become?

Kandace is only eighteen years old, and even though she lives in Pittsburgh, she is still very much a small town girl. Even though she has to act grown, she is still a young teenager trying to find her place in this world. You can see how much family is important to her and while she tries her best, she hasn’t really had time for herself to be a teenager or to learn about life in general. In some ways you can see just how naive she is especially once she meets April. For the first time, Kandace has freedom. Freedom from the responsibilities of taking care of a family and caring for her younger siblings. I think a lot of teens go through this especially if their home life is not perfect or they come from a one parent household where they don’t necessarily have the supervision or the help in making right or wrong choices.

I really felt bad at first for Kandace and felt that in a way she was targeted for her innocence and her vulnerability. Left alone in a city with no one to turn to, the glamour of making money, more money than ever thought possible held an appeal to Kandace. She IS a good girl. Is she doing bad things? I guess its left up to your interpretation. Stripping has such a huge stigma attached to it and in this day and age it is still frowned upon and girls are looked down at when their job is deemed by most of society as legalized prostitution. One thing that I was not comfortable with was Kandace’s easy acceptance on taking ecstasy especially after she wanted her mother battle through an addiction. Does it happen in strip clubs? I am sure more so than anyone would like to admit. But, it can also happen at any job.

Renee Blossom, author GOODBYE, GOOD GIRL, did a fantastic job of showing the other side of stripping and consequences with family members who do not necessarily agree with the job choice of a loved one. She really metamorphosizes Kandace from a good girl, a young, vulnerable teen, to someone else entirely – more of an adult, able to finally accept herself and make it out on her own. There are a lot of life lessons throughout this novel and I commend the author for shining a light on stripping and not making it overly one sided. She shows both sides of the coin, such as, the money aspect and the longevity of this type of career choice. I, for one, would never tell someone would they should or should not do with their life as long as they are making an honest living and are safe. I really recommend picking up a copy of this story, leave the judgement at the door, and journey along with Kandace as she finds her way in the world.
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RobynReo | 5 reseñas más. | Aug 15, 2018 |
I received the ARC via Netgalley.
I'm not sure exactly what this book was trying to be. Nothing really happens. The moral seems to be if you have terrible parents you are going to end up a hooker. We become so invested in her cause only to be let down too. So she grows up, big deal. Also, I had to stop reading several time as the morality of stripping was discussed, how great ecstasy is and the blatant chapter devoted to selling readers a car.
 
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timidmagick | 5 reseñas más. | Sep 16, 2017 |

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Obras
2
Miembros
27
Popularidad
#483,027
Valoración
3.0
Reseñas
6
ISBNs
3