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    Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa4

    Sandy **Review Copy Provided by the Author**

    I have just finished reading Dirty Little Angels. After months of putting off reading this book I finished it all in a few days. It's a quick read, 170 pages, and a lot to take in. From the title, synopsis, and first few lines you know that this book is not the type filled with pretty little metaphors and purple prose. It's quite the opposite actually, seeing the world through Hailey's eyes is like looking through a broken, stained-glass window. Everything is gritty and soiled, the world is a dark place and everyone is either, broke, a criminal, diseased or all of the above. Yet despite everyone's dire circumstances they still hold strong to their faith and judge others as if their lives are so perfect.

    Hailey Trosclair, our protagonist is a sixteen year old girl with a gambling out of work father and a depressed mother who is still hiding in her room six months after a miscarriage. Her brother, Cyrus, is a nineteen year old, on probation, who hangs out with a man named Moses who wants to open a drive-through church. Hailey's friend, Meridian, is what would be our typical cheerleading, **** without the cheerleading. And the guy Hailey likes, let's just say I don't find candied-yam arms and red doll's mouths all that attractive.

    These characters among a couple of others are our Dirty Little Angels. When you first meet them you know that Mr. and Mrs. Trosclair are not what you would call decent parents but there are little moments in the story that show us in a different world they would be different parents. Cyrus, is one of the last role models I would choose for his younger sister but he still sees her as an innocent when we know she isn't. No one is completely good or bad in this story, and I like that because that is how the real world is. A good person can do bad things and vice-versa, it just depends which side of the scale you tend to lean on most of the time that classifies you as a devil or angel I suppose.

    In Dirty Little Angels you don't get one main event that drives the story along but a bunch of little tragedies and actions. The tragedies help move the story forward and the actions just keep you reading and waiting for the consequences you think will happen. And we get that, one particular violent event is the turning point in the story that comes about right in the middle that you know will change things forever for our heroine.

    I'll tell you when I was asked to read this book, months ago, I checked the synopsis to see what kind of story I was getting into. And knew that is was not a story I would typically pick out to read for enjoyment, but a story that would add something to my life.

    That's what Dirty Little Angels did, like all the books back in high school I hated to read, it brought some things into perspective. The world is not a pretty wonderful place one-hundred percent of the time, there are no good guys and there are no bad guys and no matter how long you try to hide and blame others for your problems whether it is their fault or yours you still have to try and fix things yourself.

    I would recommend this book for mature audiences, due to crude language and other mature content. by Sandy

  • An excellent story about real life4

    Mariana Sanchez Rico Dirty Little Angels is a book about real life, about things that can happen. Is, sadly, a reflection from real situations (dysfunctional family, violence). It talks about complicated subjects like right and wrong, religion, family problems, and personal issues and the way characters, especially Hailey, get through them.
    Is not a sweet, innocent story, but a really powerful one, is harsh a rough because is the only way the story could be. You can actually understand what Hailey is feeling and the reason of her actions.
    Is slow in one point, and it was a little bit difficult to read, just because I'm not get used to that writing style, but once you get familiar with the book is great, is like if you were talking face to face with Hailey and I totally liked that.
    The ending is shocking, not just because of what happens, is also shocking because Hailey has this final revelation, and she's just left to hope irty little angels to come and help her.
    Even though is harsh I really like it, because is a very different book, that totally gets the nature of the characters, like if it were a real situation. Chris Tusa has a very unique writing style that I'm sure you'll enjoy. by Mariana Sanchez Rico

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