Review: Sex, Drugs & Being An Escort by Ashly Lorenzana

ASIN: B004C446IC (ebook)

Page Count: 101

Summary:

(As written on Amazon.com)

My name is Ashly and for the past several years I have worked as a female escort. I started out by advertising in the now extinct Craig's List "erotic services" section. Having lived with my grandparents for most of my childhood, moving to Portland from the Oregon Coast gave me a chance to spend some time with my mother.

Like her, I'm a drug addict with a decided preference for crystal meth or "uppers" in general. In an odd and unexpected way, it was our addictions that brought us "together." It always seemed to be a man that ended up forcing us apart again.

Many new experiences were waiting for me in Portland, some of which I would never have imagined. Moving to Portland is where it all started.

This book is a scattered personal journal chronicling the last several years of my very unconventional life.

My Review:

Cover:  The cover looks self-done and is basically just a pic of the author with the title and author's name above and below the author's pic.  From the cover, you gather the book is about the girl in the pic, but if you didn't have the title above it, you'd never know it was about this girl's foray into Sex, Drugs & Being An Escort.

Plot:  There's not really a plot to this book, per say.  It is basically a glimpse into the life of a girl-turned-woman over the span of a few years.  It is an accumulation of blog posts created into a book ... so the emotionalism of this work is in extremes.  One day will be positive and happy and the next could be down and depressing.

There was a little back-and-forth between events as well ... which is really to be expected in this work because this book is, after all, made from a blog.  Who doesn't go back and forth between memories depending on the type of day we're having or how we feel on any given day?

Character(s):  There was really only one main character in this book: Ashly, herself.  To be as seriously messed up as she is, she is surprisingly grounded.  She's aware of the action-reaction process and believes things happen for a reason.

Overall:  This book was an interesting glimpse into the life and psyche of a lady who has ventured into the dangerous and crazy world of Sex, Drugs & Being An Escort.  My intentions were to finish reading this book earlier this month, but it was such a "heavy" read that I had to read it in small doses.  I would definitely recommend this for adult reading due to the language and sexual/drug references.