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A review by sjj169
Becoming Bonnie by Jenni L. Walsh
4.0
3.5 stars
After reading a fictional telling of Lizzie Borden I pick up this book next. Another couple of people in history that I am completely fascinated with: Bonnie and Clyde.
I may have a weird fixation with the baddies of history. Stop judging me.
This started at a young age for me..once I saw this.
This story is mostly all Bonnie's.
Not much is known of her early life so this author takes some liberties and fills in for us Bonnie and Clyde junkies what might have happened. AND she makes it believable.
The Bonnelyn Parker that is shown in this book starts off as a good girl. She gets good grades in school, goes to church every Sunday, takes care of her poor family and is loyal to her childhood sweetheart Roy.
Then her bestie Blanche talks her into going into a speakeasy one night with her....and her life changes forever.
"Saint Bonnelyn" is shocked but her family needs the money so now she is working serving up drinks and singing at the club. She ends up marrying her childhood boyfriend Roy (right before she turns 16)
and turns out he loves the club even more than she does.
Roy and Bonnie's relationship is a pretty rocky one and he ends up leaving her. (He is pretty much a turd and then I read that in real life he left her more than this book even says.)
Bonnie is shedding her good girl ways but they still are part of her...so when she meets her friend Blanche's boyfriends brother Clyde she knows that the way she feels around him and the way he looks at her can't be nuthin but trouble.
I liked this different look into Bonnie's life. It made me even more curious into her life..I just wish there was more available about her. I did find that she wore Roy's ring up until her death.
I'm actually ready for this author's next book where she goes into the life that Bonnie and Clyde shared together.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
After reading a fictional telling of Lizzie Borden I pick up this book next. Another couple of people in history that I am completely fascinated with: Bonnie and Clyde.
I may have a weird fixation with the baddies of history. Stop judging me.
This started at a young age for me..once I saw this.
This story is mostly all Bonnie's.
Not much is known of her early life so this author takes some liberties and fills in for us Bonnie and Clyde junkies what might have happened. AND she makes it believable.
The Bonnelyn Parker that is shown in this book starts off as a good girl. She gets good grades in school, goes to church every Sunday, takes care of her poor family and is loyal to her childhood sweetheart Roy.
Then her bestie Blanche talks her into going into a speakeasy one night with her....and her life changes forever.
"Saint Bonnelyn" is shocked but her family needs the money so now she is working serving up drinks and singing at the club. She ends up marrying her childhood boyfriend Roy (right before she turns 16)
and turns out he loves the club even more than she does.
Roy and Bonnie's relationship is a pretty rocky one and he ends up leaving her. (He is pretty much a turd and then I read that in real life he left her more than this book even says.)
Bonnie is shedding her good girl ways but they still are part of her...so when she meets her friend Blanche's boyfriends brother Clyde she knows that the way she feels around him and the way he looks at her can't be nuthin but trouble.
I liked this different look into Bonnie's life. It made me even more curious into her life..I just wish there was more available about her. I did find that she wore Roy's ring up until her death.
I'm actually ready for this author's next book where she goes into the life that Bonnie and Clyde shared together.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.