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A review by mellabella
Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
4.0
I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway.
It took me a while to get into this book and really care about the characters. But once I did, I could not put it down. The ending was a little disappointing.
But the ride to the ending was filled with colorful characters.
Mazie was a warmhearted young woman living in NYC starting in the early 1900's. She loved fun, the streets, action...
She helps the homeless and anyone she can. As the book closes her concentration is on the men that line the streets.
There is a quote in the book that really moved me. "Helping is the easy part".
I volunteer and that is entirely too true.
Mazie is goodhearted. But someone like that can only die brokenhearted. She never found the romantic love that she clearly wanted. Her handsome service man marrying someone else and having as on with his wife. While she lost their baby. He always coming back to her to sleep with.
She was never thought of as anything other than a "Good Time Girl". Meanwhile she gave almost everything she had to people that were less fortunate.
I loved her relationship with Tee. A party girl and a nun.
Told from multiple pov's. I would have liked to have heard more from her sister Jeanie and anything at all from her sister Rosie. Or Louie
Mazie is a character that will stay with you for awhile.
It took me a while to get into this book and really care about the characters. But once I did, I could not put it down. The ending was a little disappointing.
But the ride to the ending was filled with colorful characters.
Mazie was a warmhearted young woman living in NYC starting in the early 1900's. She loved fun, the streets, action...
She helps the homeless and anyone she can. As the book closes her concentration is on the men that line the streets.
There is a quote in the book that really moved me. "Helping is the easy part".
I volunteer and that is entirely too true.
Mazie is goodhearted. But someone like that can only die brokenhearted. She never found the romantic love that she clearly wanted. Her handsome service man marrying someone else and having as on with his wife. While she lost their baby. He always coming back to her to sleep with.
She was never thought of as anything other than a "Good Time Girl". Meanwhile she gave almost everything she had to people that were less fortunate.
I loved her relationship with Tee. A party girl and a nun.
Told from multiple pov's. I would have liked to have heard more from her sister Jeanie and anything at all from her sister Rosie. Or Louie
Mazie is a character that will stay with you for awhile.