This was a quick enjoyable read, pure if predictable storytelling. I actually most enjoyed the edges and back of the story. Some of the Goodreads reviews complained about the sidebar footnotes, but I really liked those, how they acknowledged the unusual, the unexplained and the ephemera of a time ...
For some reason, I am always drawn to stories about brothels in the 1800s. There is just something so interesting about the way women lived and the double life men engaged in just to be near them. In Richard B. Wright's Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard, prostitutes were tough women, boyish, rugged and vu...
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