Friends, this book was not for me. This is a novel about a group of exotic dancers at a club in Atlanta called Boom Town. I really appreciate that the author wanted to tell the story of women who go missing that are the ones no one talks about. Women of color, exotic dancers, sex workers. However, I had a hard time following this one.
The main reason why is because I had a tough time keeping the character straight. All of the women dancers have a given name, as well as a stage name, and sometimes also a nickname. I could really remember their storylines and kept having to go back and re-read. The narrative also jumps back-and-forth between the present time and a year ago, and reading on Kindle. It was easy to get mixed up in what time period i was reading. I also Didn’t really visualize the age differences appropriately, which made the ending a little more confusing.
The characters in general just didn’t seem well developed to me, and I did find the nature of the book to be a bit disturbing.
So while this story wasn’t my favorite, I could see others enjoying it due to the provocative, gritty setting.
Thanks to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for the ARC. Book to be published 10/14/25
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