The Opportunist

This book caught my eye because it was $4 on my kindle and looked interesting.

(Can I just say one of the things I love the most about my kindle, besides being able to read in the middle of the night, is that I can tape on any word in a book and it will define it for me.  It has been wonderful to learn what these big words authors use actually mean.)

 

Anyway...this book is about a "damaged" young woman.  Her father left when she was young and only came back around when he was broke and would take whatever money her mother had made for food.  At times that left them eating nothing because daddy dearest took the last dollar and went to McDonald's for his own dinner.  Awful and sad.  At the age of 17 her mother died.  She is basically alone. 

 

The hunk of the book comes for booka-bucks and a mother that is a snob. 

 

Together they make one hot mess.  They might be in love but it isn't really a healthy relationship. 

 

I can't decide what I think about this book.  One on hand it had some language and a few sexual scenes that I could have done without.  On the other hand it was interesting to read about how messed up people can be without a moral compass.  When they aren't taught correctly what happens...

 

I am glad I read this book it was interesting and I wanted to know what happened to the characters in the end.