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A review by jessies
Dakota by Gwen Florio
3.0
I'm honestly giving this three stars instead of two because the subject matter was interesting, even if the story was predictable.
Lola Wicks is a big city reporter now living in rural Montana, covering the local Indian Reservation for the town's newspaper. After a missing girl is found dead outside of town, Lola discovers that the dead girl, along with other young girls missing from the Reservation, may have been working as prostitutes in the Dakota oil fields.
The oil book towns of the Dakotas have interested me for a while. Small dying towns suddenly became over crowded with workers from nearby oil fields. In these towns men would likely out number women 100 to 1. These areas are prime areas for sex trafficking.
Florio is a journalist herself and discusses the facts of these areas in an interesting way; however, her character's and plot fall short. Generally I do not like mysteries with journalist protagonists. It seems like they always need to be rescued and Lola is no exception. She takes stupid risks to find the truth, most of which had me groaning.
The general plot was very thin. We never learn much about the murdered girls or the girls who have gone missing, just that they all had problems with drugs. I would have been much more engaged in the story if I had some kind of emotional attachment to the victims.
Library Thing Review
Lola Wicks is a big city reporter now living in rural Montana, covering the local Indian Reservation for the town's newspaper. After a missing girl is found dead outside of town, Lola discovers that the dead girl, along with other young girls missing from the Reservation, may have been working as prostitutes in the Dakota oil fields.
The oil book towns of the Dakotas have interested me for a while. Small dying towns suddenly became over crowded with workers from nearby oil fields. In these towns men would likely out number women 100 to 1. These areas are prime areas for sex trafficking.
Florio is a journalist herself and discusses the facts of these areas in an interesting way; however, her character's and plot fall short. Generally I do not like mysteries with journalist protagonists. It seems like they always need to be rescued and Lola is no exception. She takes stupid risks to find the truth, most of which had me groaning.
The general plot was very thin. We never learn much about the murdered girls or the girls who have gone missing, just that they all had problems with drugs. I would have been much more engaged in the story if I had some kind of emotional attachment to the victims.
Library Thing Review