The Lonely Hearts Hotel
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The Lonely Hearts Hote is a love story with the power of legend. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city's underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes -after years of searching and desperate poverty -the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same."----
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Beautifully written, interesting content–not for everyone. I think for me, the thing I liked best was the imagery and language and the descriptions of what it might have been like to live during the early 1900's, with the most interesting being the descriptions of the Great Depression.
I liked this book... but I didn't.
Nope. I should have known from the first chapter that I wasn't going to dig this book but then 5 or 6 chapters in, major trigger warning for me. Like, shut the book and chuck it across the room.
I get that for some people, the shock value of child sex abuse is what you need to create drama but for me... nope. I have no need for this.
