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An Almond for a Parrot
by Wray Delaney
4.5 stars
I received a free copy of this book from Harper Collins in exchange for an honest review.
Video review (spoiler free): https://bit.ly/2XfhxYx
It’s 1756 and Tully Truegood is languishing in prison, accused of murder. In Tully’s own words, she writes down her story so those reading can understand her actions. From ignored daughter to famed and beloved courtesan, the reader follows Tully through the high and lows of your young life until eventually arriving to how she ended up behind bars.
This is an absolute fantastic book that had me hooked from the first chapter. I flew through this story and found it hard to put down at times (in fact, the day I finished it I had to get off the train for work with only about three pages to go and it was infuriating).
Tully is one of those characters you can fall in love with. She is young and honest, and her voice sounds exactly like this. I don’t think there was much badness in her at all, and I really just wanted to take her in my arms and protect her from all the evil in the world.
At first Tully’s proper voice in the book threw me off but I gradually got used to her way of speech and the book eventually settled down into the story and flowed really well. The chapters were short which made them easy to fly through and devour. I read fifteen chapters in my first sitting!
Tully is a very sensual and sexual person, from the time she is quite young and she enjoys and relishes in sex and sex with people she cares about. She owns her body in a way that’s really empowering and admirable. I loved her descriptions of a a lot of sexual scenes she both witnesses and takes part in because she gives different names to body parts (Venus mound and pleasure garden instead of vagina, and pleasure pole instead of penis for example) and while this could come across silly and moronic in other books, it doesn’t in this one because you know everything Tully is describing it out of awe and pleasure, and it’s Tully being Tully.
There was a magical ad supernatural twist to this story I was;t expecting but I grew to love it. It really fell into place and became an integral part of the plot and one, as a reader, I would anticipate and wish more of.
I really enjoyed the romance int his book. At first, I was afraid it would take over but Tully proved to be her own person and took control of her own story and I loved that.
This was a fantastic book with both a great historical setting as well as an a amazing female protagonist that you could respect, admire and just want to be friends with. Highly recommend. P.S This book is perfect for fans of TV show Harlots!
I received a free copy of this book from Harper Collins in exchange for an honest review.
Video review (spoiler free): https://bit.ly/2XfhxYx
It’s 1756 and Tully Truegood is languishing in prison, accused of murder. In Tully’s own words, she writes down her story so those reading can understand her actions. From ignored daughter to famed and beloved courtesan, the reader follows Tully through the high and lows of your young life until eventually arriving to how she ended up behind bars.
This is an absolute fantastic book that had me hooked from the first chapter. I flew through this story and found it hard to put down at times (in fact, the day I finished it I had to get off the train for work with only about three pages to go and it was infuriating).
Tully is one of those characters you can fall in love with. She is young and honest, and her voice sounds exactly like this. I don’t think there was much badness in her at all, and I really just wanted to take her in my arms and protect her from all the evil in the world.
At first Tully’s proper voice in the book threw me off but I gradually got used to her way of speech and the book eventually settled down into the story and flowed really well. The chapters were short which made them easy to fly through and devour. I read fifteen chapters in my first sitting!
Tully is a very sensual and sexual person, from the time she is quite young and she enjoys and relishes in sex and sex with people she cares about. She owns her body in a way that’s really empowering and admirable. I loved her descriptions of a a lot of sexual scenes she both witnesses and takes part in because she gives different names to body parts (Venus mound and pleasure garden instead of vagina, and pleasure pole instead of penis for example) and while this could come across silly and moronic in other books, it doesn’t in this one because you know everything Tully is describing it out of awe and pleasure, and it’s Tully being Tully.
There was a magical ad supernatural twist to this story I was;t expecting but I grew to love it. It really fell into place and became an integral part of the plot and one, as a reader, I would anticipate and wish more of.
I really enjoyed the romance int his book. At first, I was afraid it would take over but Tully proved to be her own person and took control of her own story and I loved that.
This was a fantastic book with both a great historical setting as well as an a amazing female protagonist that you could respect, admire and just want to be friends with. Highly recommend. P.S This book is perfect for fans of TV show Harlots!