Chloe Doe
By Suzanne Phillips
3 stars
Chloe Doe is a book about a girl with a troubled life. She is in a psychiatric hospital for prostitution. She is seventeen years old. Chloe starts out rebellious, she doesn't like being at the Madeline Parker Institute. The chapters also go from her home life (years before) to her life at the Institute. In the book, Chloe does speak some Spanish. The Spanish seems unnecessary. The book is well-written; I felt as if I was looking over this girl's life, as if she was close to me. However, some elements of this book are unbelievable, and it keeps getting more and more depressing. In most stories of a life struggle, the character finds something inside of them, something that tells them how they can change. I never saw this in Chloe Doe.
3 comments:
This is a good review but this book doesn't seem like a book I would really to interested in reading, although I could be wrong.
? sounds like a book i would NEVER read! she doesnt descover anything life changing?! then what would you write the book for in the first place?!
She never sees a reason to change. As the reader, I was thinking the story would end with Chloe going back to a life as a criminal. The last two pages seem to be written by a different person. I don't want to spoil the book, but really, there is nothing life changing that we see. The setting is good (a prostitute brought in from the streets to a hospital) but the author was trying too hard. She tries to make it into a big success story. It doesn't work.
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