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A review by burningupasun
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
3.0
You know those books where you didn't hate them, of course, but you also definitely didn't LOVE them? Yeah, this book is like that! The characters were good, and in general the writing was good. I even thought the "love triangle" was much more bearable because it was really more, 'girl has two guys she may be interested in' and less forced, you know?
But it just kind of felt like stuff was happening, and it wasn't too exciting. I actually preferred the second half to the first, because I felt like the excitement picked up, but it still didn't make me fall in love. Also, I felt New Orleans as the setting, but I didn't really feel like the historical aspects of it played as well, it was pretty easy to forget it wasn't a modern setting.
Overall it isn't a bad book at all, though, and I did really love Josie (and Jesse, and Willie, and Cokie), and I (mostly) liked the book's handling of the prostitutes without slut shaming them too much, etc.
But it just kind of felt like stuff was happening, and it wasn't too exciting. I actually preferred the second half to the first, because I felt like the excitement picked up, but it still didn't make me fall in love. Also, I felt New Orleans as the setting, but I didn't really feel like the historical aspects of it played as well, it was pretty easy to forget it wasn't a modern setting.
Overall it isn't a bad book at all, though, and I did really love Josie (and Jesse, and Willie, and Cokie), and I (mostly) liked the book's handling of the prostitutes without slut shaming them too much, etc.