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liralen's review
3.0
A grungy sort of fascinating, shall we say? Sage and Vicki have taken the thin excuse of setting a garden shed on fire to assume that they're on England's most-wanted list and set off for Paris. They expect to live artists' lives: a rented room, perhaps; a side job to supplement their earnings until they can eke out a living from their art.
Things...do not go to plan.
Every time you think things can't get grungier, you learn otherwise: it's a gradual spiral from crashing with a 'friend' to stealing food from an employer to a night sleeping rough to sleeping rough as a norm. New friends for whom homelessness is, by choice or by chance, a way of living.
It's that gradual slide that fascinates me, as Vicki and Sage again and again find themselves doing things that they couldn't have imagined even a few steps back. Their hard lines repeatedly prove to be soft lines, until something—not necessarily what you'd expect—pushes one of them to do a serious rethink.
I can't say I altogether enjoyed reading this, but enjoyment isn't always the point of grit and grime. It was unlike anything else I've read—and I can't argue with that.
Things...do not go to plan.
Every time you think things can't get grungier, you learn otherwise: it's a gradual spiral from crashing with a 'friend' to stealing food from an employer to a night sleeping rough to sleeping rough as a norm. New friends for whom homelessness is, by choice or by chance, a way of living.
It's that gradual slide that fascinates me, as Vicki and Sage again and again find themselves doing things that they couldn't have imagined even a few steps back. Their hard lines repeatedly prove to be soft lines, until something—not necessarily what you'd expect—pushes one of them to do a serious rethink.
I can't say I altogether enjoyed reading this, but enjoyment isn't always the point of grit and grime. It was unlike anything else I've read—and I can't argue with that.
hayleyshortcake's review
2.0
Really wasn't a fan of this but quite liked the ending although it was very abrupt.
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