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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
I’ve been wanting to read this book for the longest time and it was worth it! The characters are so endearing and unforgettable. Josie is a fighter and strong woman who refuses to give up her dream of going to college despite of her mother’s constant run-ins with the law.
My favorite character was Willie, the Madam, she is such a strong character and a mother figure to both Josie and the girls of the brothel. She is the one that protects Josie even from her mother. I truly loved her relationship with Josie.
I think that the best quality of the book is the relationship between the characters and how it develops through out the book. There were certain thing from the plot that I thought would have had a bigger impact to the story (like the murder). However, that was tertiary to the real plot of the book.
4.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My favorite character was Willie, the Madam, she is such a strong character and a mother figure to both Josie and the girls of the brothel. She is the one that protects Josie even from her mother. I truly loved her relationship with Josie.
I think that the best quality of the book is the relationship between the characters and how it develops through out the book. There were certain thing from the plot that I thought would have had a bigger impact to the story (like the murder). However, that was tertiary to the real plot of the book.
4.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really enjoyed this story but, I feel like it should have been about 100 pages shorter.
After falling in love with Ruta Sepetys' most recent book, "The Fountains of Silence," I knew I had to give another book a try! And I am so so glad I did.
This book, "Out of the Easy," takes place in the French Quarter, New Orleans, in the 1950's. Josie is a girl who longs for more--she has a head for books and wants to go to college. She really wants to go to college outside of New Orleans. Her mother is a prostitute and an absentee one at that. In fact, Josie is more raised by the madame and the other women of the brothel. Her escape is working in the local bookstore.
Mystery ensues after a recent bookstore customer ends up dead. So many people are questioned--including Josie's mother and her evil boyfriend, Cincinnati. Who is to be believed? What's the truth? And will Josie find her way to better her life?
Ruta Sepetys always has a way with words. Her historical fiction narratives are very much welcome and needed in YA. I appreciated seeing a whole different aspect of history and the South than usually portrayed in books.
This book, "Out of the Easy," takes place in the French Quarter, New Orleans, in the 1950's. Josie is a girl who longs for more--she has a head for books and wants to go to college. She really wants to go to college outside of New Orleans. Her mother is a prostitute and an absentee one at that. In fact, Josie is more raised by the madame and the other women of the brothel. Her escape is working in the local bookstore.
Mystery ensues after a recent bookstore customer ends up dead. So many people are questioned--including Josie's mother and her evil boyfriend, Cincinnati. Who is to be believed? What's the truth? And will Josie find her way to better her life?
Ruta Sepetys always has a way with words. Her historical fiction narratives are very much welcome and needed in YA. I appreciated seeing a whole different aspect of history and the South than usually portrayed in books.
This book was different from Ruta Sepetys other books, but I still loved it. Even though it was not as history heavy as Sepetys other books, it is still an incredibly well-told story. I couldn't help but love the characters who were so perfectly flawed.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is the third book that I've read from Sepetys, and I have to say that I'm officially a lifelong fan. As an avid reader of historical fiction, It can easily be distinguished whether the writer adequately researched the setting and historical events surrounding the time period or simply plopped their characters into another decade. Her books are the previous with such detailed writing that I'm transported into another time. All three of her books she has so far written completely immerse the reader into history. I feel so deeply when I delve into her books, laughing and crying and shaking my head. Her characters are smart and strong and make me want to be equally as bad ass.
Out of the easy was no different. The main character Josie strikes me as a wayward soul trying to make her way out from under the horrible umbrella of her prostitute mother, and she does so with a bang with advice from a bad ass madam who runs the town.
I can't wait to see what Sepetys will write next.
Out of the easy was no different. The main character Josie strikes me as a wayward soul trying to make her way out from under the horrible umbrella of her prostitute mother, and she does so with a bang with advice from a bad ass madam who runs the town.
I can't wait to see what Sepetys will write next.