Confidante: The Brothel

Lilliana Anderson

Welcome to Reading Addiction Blog Tour’s stop for ‘Confidante: The Brothel‘.

This is a sex novel styled memoir, so if you’re under the age of consent in your State, please don’t read any further.

The official blurb:

Ok, I’ll admit it – My mother in law used to be a sex worker. It’s something that she has confided in few people outside her immediate family until me. We are polar opposites in many ways but we get each other – as a result I have become the confidante in her life which is how this series has been born.

In 1989, Angelien was 32 when she made the decision to enter a brothel to help support herself and her two sons. She quickly became the most popular girl there with her Kathleen Turner looks and her excellent ‘acting’ skills.

Confidante: The Brothel is a collection of Angelien’s most memorable stories of her month working in the brothel.

This is a biography about friendship, discovery and of course sex.

My review:

I thought this book would be interesting and present a good view of things differently to the novel I reviewed yesterday. Indeed it did! Instead of being a classy escort, Angelien

I particularly liked the short bursts of information and various annecdotes. It makes it a novel you could pick up, read for a bit, and then put down without feeling frustrated. I don’t think it’s an edge-of-seat book, but it has a certain allure.

It’s interesting the way perceptions have and haven’t changed over the times about prostitution. Everything in this novel is about sex, even her early jobs, so I imagine that she was a very attractive woman, and couldn’t really help what she turned out doing. She’s als very practical, which I appreciated.

There are some tense changes and a couple of dialogue things that bugged me as I read, but it was quite well written. I was happy that it was a memoir type thing, and that made it easier for me to accept the different people as people (instead of characters that hadn’t been fleshed out). If they’re real people, it’s impossible to predict what their reactions on the personal side should be.

I’d actually be interested to read the other books in this trilogy. I’d probably give this one 4 stars for its genre, and not trying to be too high flaunting about it. If you’re looking for a romance, you won’t find it here, instead you’ll get a quite candid look at the life of a hooker.

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About the Author

Australian author of Confidante: The Brothel – Lilliana is a wife, mother of 4 and friend to many.

She lives a relatively quiet life in suburban Melbourne and spends most of her spare time writing the Confidante series as well as a racey drama of love and loss with the working title ‘What Might Have Been’.