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In this sequel to Money Shot, Angel Dare is working at a cheap diner under an assumed name after her stint in Witness Protection failed to protect her. She's out of the porn business, but not exactly out of the sex business: she describes how she got a place to stay by flirting with a man in a restaurant until he bought her a steak and took her home, where, she writes, I paid for my steak.
After a spectacularly ill-fated chance meeting with an old flame from her former life, Angel finds herself saddled with a very young man she feels responsible for, his washed-up MMA trainer, and a tide of violence that gets bigger and bigger until it swallows up everything in its path.
Very page-turny, very dark but not in the same way as Money Shot (less betrayal and everyone being horrible, more sudden shocking violence), set largely in the MMA world which was interesting but not quite as much for me as the porn world. But Angel still has a sex worker's mindset even when she's not specifically doing sex work, so that world is never really gone.
I briefly puzzled over why it took me so long to get to this book considering how much I liked Money Shot, and then checked the date of my review of the latter: November 2019. Right. 2020 is why.
After a spectacularly ill-fated chance meeting with an old flame from her former life, Angel finds herself saddled with a very young man she feels responsible for, his washed-up MMA trainer, and a tide of violence that gets bigger and bigger until it swallows up everything in its path.
Very page-turny, very dark but not in the same way as Money Shot (less betrayal and everyone being horrible, more sudden shocking violence), set largely in the MMA world which was interesting but not quite as much for me as the porn world. But Angel still has a sex worker's mindset even when she's not specifically doing sex work, so that world is never really gone.
I briefly puzzled over why it took me so long to get to this book considering how much I liked Money Shot, and then checked the date of my review of the latter: November 2019. Right. 2020 is why.
