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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I chose this book because it was on the shelf near P.J. Tracy and it had a red spine. My younger daughter gave me a challenge to read one book per week this year, on top of the 85 I read last year. Anyway, she gave me hints to direct my book pick. This pick gave me The Girl in 6E. I nearly put it back after reading the inside jacket cover and again after reading the first 25 pages or so, but I stuck with it. I am glad I did.
As you will read in the Goodreads snapshot, the protagonist is a really messed up young lady. She is obsessed with the idea of killing someone, not nice and neat, but bloody and painfully. To prevent that eventuality, she locks herself in her apartment even going so far as to have someone lock her in at night when the drives are the strongest. She makes a good living as a erotic cam model. She orders everything she needs to live from food to furniture to computer equipment online, requiring it to be delivered. The delivery guy finally gives up and signs for her packages himself.
I won't go on any further into the story line, but suffice to say it was sufficiently compelling for me to finish the book in a day and a half. I could feel sequels in the offing and will read them as they become available at my library.
I would not recommend this book for the prude or the weak of heart, but for everyone else, I can wholeheartedly recommend it.
Good reading.
As you will read in the Goodreads snapshot, the protagonist is a really messed up young lady. She is obsessed with the idea of killing someone, not nice and neat, but bloody and painfully. To prevent that eventuality, she locks herself in her apartment even going so far as to have someone lock her in at night when the drives are the strongest. She makes a good living as a erotic cam model. She orders everything she needs to live from food to furniture to computer equipment online, requiring it to be delivered. The delivery guy finally gives up and signs for her packages himself.
I won't go on any further into the story line, but suffice to say it was sufficiently compelling for me to finish the book in a day and a half. I could feel sequels in the offing and will read them as they become available at my library.
I would not recommend this book for the prude or the weak of heart, but for everyone else, I can wholeheartedly recommend it.
Good reading.
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Definitely far from what I was expecting that's for sure. I was expecting some thriller or mystery, and it was still a thriller but jeez. Main character is a sex cam worker so lots of sexual content, but aside from that still a good plot and interesting way to go about it.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm bouncing back and forth between calling this a four or five star read. I think it is a five star read based on how much I enjoyed it, but four stars for complexity/writing style. That being said, I still HIGHLY recommend it. Def not for anyone under 17 or 18 though
Whatever I thought THE GIRL IN 6E was about, I can't begin to tell you how wrong I was. Having said that I'm also now considerably more educated about the world of paid Internet sex services than I ever thought I wanted to be.
The story is told from the perspective of “Jessica Reilly” who performs virtual sex acts online (known as camming), for customers willing to pay $6.99 per minute. She works through agency websites, and her private site, and has an extensive clientele of return customers. Male and female. Straight and kinky. She's equipped to satisfy anyone's fantasies, from a bed and elaborate, very technical web-camera, equipment, toys and costume collection.
She's also a voluntary shut in who hasn't left her apartment in 3 years. Everything she needs is delivered – normally by UPS. The amount of effort she puts into her lifestyle is quite impressive, although from the outset the reasons are decidedly odd. Deanna Madden is quite convinced she will kill anyone she comes into close personal contact with. To the point where she supplies a neighbour with the illicit drugs he craves to lock her in every night.
The only person who gets close (and that's mostly “Leave It. Thank You” spoken through the door), is the UPS delivery man, who it has developed a bit of an obsession about meeting Deanna / Jessica. When he finally does, it's not quite what he was expecting and not just because of the camming.
But what do you do when you're voluntarily shut in, when you have the violent and high-risk sort of background that's slowly revealed, and a client who seems to be threatening something truly horrible?
Somewhere in the middle of the discomforting explicit sex acts, and the internal voice that obviously had a lot more to reveal, THE GIRL IN 6E became compulsive reading. The character of Deanna is strong, and whilst her voice is tempting, hinting almost teasing the reader, that sort of fits with her day job. It's very easy for the reader to feel some sympathy, just as it is to wonder where on earth this book was going.
Engaging, compelling, and inventive with really strong story telling, THE GIRL IN 6E has been revised and reworked from the original, self-published version “On Me, In Me, Dead Beneath Me”.
http://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/review-girl-6e-ar-torre
The story is told from the perspective of “Jessica Reilly” who performs virtual sex acts online (known as camming), for customers willing to pay $6.99 per minute. She works through agency websites, and her private site, and has an extensive clientele of return customers. Male and female. Straight and kinky. She's equipped to satisfy anyone's fantasies, from a bed and elaborate, very technical web-camera, equipment, toys and costume collection.
She's also a voluntary shut in who hasn't left her apartment in 3 years. Everything she needs is delivered – normally by UPS. The amount of effort she puts into her lifestyle is quite impressive, although from the outset the reasons are decidedly odd. Deanna Madden is quite convinced she will kill anyone she comes into close personal contact with. To the point where she supplies a neighbour with the illicit drugs he craves to lock her in every night.
The only person who gets close (and that's mostly “Leave It. Thank You” spoken through the door), is the UPS delivery man, who it has developed a bit of an obsession about meeting Deanna / Jessica. When he finally does, it's not quite what he was expecting and not just because of the camming.
But what do you do when you're voluntarily shut in, when you have the violent and high-risk sort of background that's slowly revealed, and a client who seems to be threatening something truly horrible?
Somewhere in the middle of the discomforting explicit sex acts, and the internal voice that obviously had a lot more to reveal, THE GIRL IN 6E became compulsive reading. The character of Deanna is strong, and whilst her voice is tempting, hinting almost teasing the reader, that sort of fits with her day job. It's very easy for the reader to feel some sympathy, just as it is to wonder where on earth this book was going.
Engaging, compelling, and inventive with really strong story telling, THE GIRL IN 6E has been revised and reworked from the original, self-published version “On Me, In Me, Dead Beneath Me”.
http://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/review-girl-6e-ar-torre
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
...'Normal people open their doors. People who have something to hide keep them closed'...
I was a little disappointed by this book. The story sounding interesting, Deanna, a cam girl who Is locked in her apartment in fear that she may kill, so she has to turn to cam sites for money. Yet when she does leave, she fails to kill twice. The book only really picked up once you realize that one of Deanna's clients, may be the key to finding more about a little girl's disappearance.
I was a little disappointed by this book. The story sounding interesting, Deanna, a cam girl who Is locked in her apartment in fear that she may kill, so she has to turn to cam sites for money. Yet when she does leave, she fails to kill twice. The book only really picked up once you realize that one of Deanna's clients, may be the key to finding more about a little girl's disappearance.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes