Trailer Park Wives

The Single-Wide Edition

By: Denise Gwen

Narrated by: Lindsey Corey

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

Why, oh why, did Anne Marie Whitehall take her own life, swallowing away her pain and her grief with a handful of Nembutal capsules and a bottle of Merlot? Does Samantha Jacobs, the red-haired vixen grinding away on a pole at the Revue know?

Or perhaps Deena Cook, harried mother of four and a regular visitor at Children's Services?

Or does Cierra Maldonado, mother of two children by two different men, not receiving a penny of child support and working as a cocktail waitress at a chi-chi club in downtown Cincinnati know why?

Or perhaps Lettie Robinson, a 400-pound housewife of three healthy and hungry little boys, who knows the meat display at Wal-Mart better than the inside of her own trailer.

Well, someone knows why Anne Marie Whitehall committed suicide, but she isn't talking.

And everyone wants to know who the raven-haired, glacially thin woman is: the one who's walking around the trailer park and sending secret notes to certain dear - and dearly departed - friends.

©2014 Denise Barone (P)2015 Denise Barone

Crazy Funny Book For Sure!

This was very different than what I am used to reading. There is some crude language, some very obese women, strippers, neglecting moms, irresponsible babysitters, drug trafficking, betrayal, some mystery around an unexpected suicide, and all men are a waste of space. There are crazy moments, funny moments, bonding moments between the women that live in the same trailer park. We are familiar with the stereotypes and this audiobook brings them to reality.

The narration was excellent and brought the story to life.

Anne Marie’s suicide seems to be more complex than at first glance. The story is told in multiple POV. We learn about each of them and their struggles. We are left with multiple cliffhangers. I’m planing to get the second book to see how this story concludes.

"I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review."

tantalizing

okay this book was absolutely mesmerizing tantalizing incredible sad beautiful thrilling everything I loved it very much I think I will need to listen to it again to get all the saddle things the narrator was incredible as well
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Great Narrator! Good Story

Narrator Lindsey Corey does a great job with this story. I love the way she brings different characters to life in this audiobook. At times this audiobook is hard to listen too because of the subject matter. But I kept listening because Lindsey drew me in from the very start.

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

this book was given to me at my request for review

I enjoyed listening to this book kept wondering what happened to make the the people who lived in the trailer park live and act like they did.

Not my cup of tea

The narrator is excellent. She handles the variety of characters well.

This is a hard book (storywise) to review. The author is clearly talented, but the story gets bogged down in heavy situations and graphic descriptions. On one hand, the author writes in a way that elicits an emotional response. My own responses were visceral (sadness, disgust, anger, frustration). The descriptions are vivid. But this is also where the author fails to provide balance. The story and character building consists of four women's dismal lives being built terrible decision by terrible decision. Not so much character building as digging deeper into a mud pit.

Books give us a glimpse into the lives of others and are a form of escapism. I didn't find any humor or light moments. Yes, I know this is the reality of some women. They struggle to get by, they're constantly fighting for survival. That's well and good, but these characters are not living in a way that is empowering (taking ownership of their situation). They are victims.

Here's an example of what bothered me. One of the characters is asked to take off her watch and jewelry while entering a courthouse. Her husband starts arguing with the guard about his belt buckle/pocket knife. Then, she and her husband disrupt court proceedings, call civil servants hideous names...and then wonder why they're reprimanded. Later, a lawyer wearing a neat suit and carrying a designer bag comes in through security and the character assumes the lawyer's life is "so easy," and falls down a rabbit hole of self-pity. (I have a Ph.D. and I worked hard to earn it. A lawyer carrying a nice bag isn't a sign of an "easy life" - it's the fruit of hard work.) Every interaction feeds into the victim narrative.

The plot is so heavy on descriptions that there is little forward momentum. It's hard enough reading about one character's hard life (with exhibits A-Z), but multiply that by four with an occasional, 'Oh yeah. Anne Marie died.'

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

One of my favs!

Any additional comments?

I really enjoyed this and literally LOLed. It was a little on the trashy side but I loved being able to visit their world. Waiting for book #2!

RAW & TANGLED, KNEE-DEEP IN THE TRAILER PARK....

This was different, entertaining, crazy, and awesome! You have to be willing to "go there," but if you do, it's a hum-dinger of a story. It's raw and honest, not sugar coated. If you want "real," you'll get it here. Lots of people have been in those shoes, and it's a whole different world. Just take it as you see it, but I loved the story and the narrator was awesome, and I'd definitely read it again and recommend it :)
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Stereotyping at Its Finest

This book is about a group of ladies, that each have their own issues (cocaine, obesity, hooking, stripping, unfit parent, etc) and ultimately one of the friends chooses to take her own life, to escape the never ending battle. It almost seems like each woman has accepted their fate with not really wanting to change their life for the better, not just for themselves, but for their children as well. Yes, one speaks of moving to a different mobile home park, but it is just talk.....well you can want a Lamborghini, but that doesn't mean you are going to get it, especially without the proper steps.

The narration was beautifully done by Lindsey Corey, who does wonderful voices for each character. I did not feel like she was reading the book, but really acting the character, which was so refreshing.


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good

This book wasn't exactly what I was expecting but I still enjoyed it. It's definitely different from the other books I've done recently and the story \kept me interested. Good narration!

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This wasn't a comedy to me

From reading the blurb I really thought this was going to be a comedy...it wasn't! It was more drama and sad that anything and I'm not really a drama person. It had some interesting parts but...I'll lay it out for you - I read to escape the drama and I work in an environment where THIS is what I work with EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! So to read it...made me want to jump off a bridge and take some xanax first. It was just very depressing. It was true to life and I like to suspend belief sometimes. There's a mood I get in when I like books like this...I wasn't in that mood.