Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.
Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson.
As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line - until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.
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(@vintagebooks, 7 March 2019, ebook, 352 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle, # POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book with a quote from your favourite author or amazon page)
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I really enjoyed The Mars Room. It took a few chapters for me to get into the book. Most chapters are from the POV of Romy but some were from the POV of other inmates and this wasn't always clear. This is quite a bleak book as you get inside Romy's head and discover the injustice of her two life sentences. I couldn't help but feel for her. This is well-written and compelling. I'd recommend it.
