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A review by claudiacantread
Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen
3.0
This was very much like a ‘pass the time’ comfort read to me. It was a fine mystery with at least fairly likable characters.
Our main character, a young 20-something fresh out of college, isn’t sure what to do with her life just yet, and finds herself involved in the family business of solving crimes. When a coworker of hers is found murdered, Annie finds herself pushed to solve it and finding a reason to stay in her small town that she thought she escaped from with a college education.
The setting of deep Texas was utilized well to create a kind of culture around it. I think there were a little too many side characters and time jumping around that made the story a bit confusing and muddled occasionally. I guessed the culprit (go me!) but that didn’t make it less interesting in this case since it was a fairly good turn.
I did like its voice and perspective around feminism in the south and problems with rape culture in a lot of the communities around it. Patriarchy was the real villain here and I can get behind that.
Overall, it was an easy listen and a decent way to spend a few hours. It felt like cable tv.
Thanks to Netgalley and RB media for a copy of this audiobook. Narrated by Sandy Rustin who did a good job but boy was it accented, often heavily.
Our main character, a young 20-something fresh out of college, isn’t sure what to do with her life just yet, and finds herself involved in the family business of solving crimes. When a coworker of hers is found murdered, Annie finds herself pushed to solve it and finding a reason to stay in her small town that she thought she escaped from with a college education.
The setting of deep Texas was utilized well to create a kind of culture around it. I think there were a little too many side characters and time jumping around that made the story a bit confusing and muddled occasionally. I guessed the culprit (go me!) but that didn’t make it less interesting in this case since it was a fairly good turn.
I did like its voice and perspective around feminism in the south and problems with rape culture in a lot of the communities around it. Patriarchy was the real villain here and I can get behind that.
Overall, it was an easy listen and a decent way to spend a few hours. It felt like cable tv.
Thanks to Netgalley and RB media for a copy of this audiobook. Narrated by Sandy Rustin who did a good job but boy was it accented, often heavily.