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A review by miss617
Brooklyn by Tracy Brown
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Let's get this out of the way: Brooklyn is not a likeable character. You sympathize with her in the beginning but, as she gets older, she becomes extremely conniving and selfish. Although she did a lot of people wrong throughout the course of the book, the first and last people she betrayed were the ones that really had me throwing up my hands.
I guessed the killer correctly, but not how they got to that point, so that part was a surprise. However, you will definitely side eye everyone Brooklyn interacts with because they all had a reason to want her dead.
Overall, you can definitely read this as a cautionary tale. When Stacey asks "how many retired hustlers do you know," Brooklyn should have listened. It was easy for her to get caught up in the life, but in the end she was too impulsive for her own good.
I guessed the killer correctly, but not how they got to that point, so that part was a surprise. However, you will definitely side eye everyone Brooklyn interacts with because they all had a reason to want her dead.
Overall, you can definitely read this as a cautionary tale. When Stacey asks "how many retired hustlers do you know," Brooklyn should have listened. It was easy for her to get caught up in the life, but in the end she was too impulsive for her own good.