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Pandora's Box: A Novel

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This book is terrible every time I was reading it I feel asleep, it has no suspense, it just doesnt keeps you interested, you just finish it because you began reading it but thats all.

Allison Hobbs tells a good story about Victoria who was burnt and robbed of her inheritance forcing her to call Pandora's box which is a brothel. She gets addicted to the fast money and material things until major things start happening at Pandora's box that makes her have to rethink her job. Very explicit well told story that puts you right in the brothel not as a prostitute but as a spectator.Very good debut novel.

This book was okay. If you do not have patience fo slow books, i strongy do not recommend this. Victoria is a single mother who spends all of her inheritence on a music career that does not happen. As a result, she turns to a brothel as a source of income. But, Pandora's isn't r average whore house, these women have serious issues.

Reds and Dominique are old, and are barely making money

Bethany and Sheena are strung out on drugs. Bethany ends up leting her infant die, the question is did she kill him.

Miquon is a chubby, theiving, ignorant single mother.

Victoria is trying to be a mother to her son, but having to have sex for money is pitty. One day a customer comes in and it soon changes her life.

This book shows how women are forced to make ends meet, and how some choose jobs that are degrading but pays at the same time.

i actually could not get into this book.it didn't draw me look so many other good books:chyna black,true to the game,flyy gurl,coldestest winter ever,etc. i just couldn't get into it.

This is the first Allison Hobbs novel and the first urban book I ever read about 2 years ago. It really turned me on to these kinds of books and I've been an Allison Hobbs fan ever since. It's a great read, highly recommended.

Sort of felt like this was more of a womans' novel when I started reading it but it kept me in suspense throughout. Many twists and turns and no certainty that main character Victoria was going to come out unscathed.Ms Hobbs takes us down into the seedy underbelly of prostitution and what it does to the women who, for one reason or another, get caught up in that world. She puts a human touch to these women and illicits sympathy and compassion from the reader, although she takes an honest look at what many of these women become over time. The question throughout is, will Victoria become one of those women or will she escape in time?

Allison Hobbs, in her debut novel details the story Victory Carlton. Victoria, a wannabe singer, falls on hard times after she invests the small inheritance left to her by her Grandmother Nana on making a demo with a sleazy manager, Justice Martin in order to gain exposure for her in the music industry.

When the record deal falls through, in desperation and as last resort, Victoria, takes the name of Pleasure and joins the working class of prostitutes at a brothel called Pandora's Box.

At Pandora's Box, Victoria meets the sleaziest people, which only adds to her depression about the change in her life. But it is not until Kareem walks through the doors that Victoria allows herself to open up to the possibilities of love again. Even with the prospect of love on the horizon, is Victoria able to give up Pandora's Box? Or will she allow the fast money to control her life and stay at Pandora's Box?

I found the story enjoyable, but felt that the author spent too much time on the other characters at Pandora's Box, thereby letting the main character's story take a back seat too often. I also found that Kareem's character was not fully developed and thereby a great love story was lost because of this. The ending to the book was too quick and the tone of, "They lived happily ever after," was not fitting for all of the drama that Victoria and Kareem should've had to deal with, in her chosen profession.

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Vanessa A. Johnson http://clik.to/vanessaajohnson

Allison Hobbs, I give you a thumbs up on your first novel. I couldn't put it down after the first few pages. I had no idea on what goes in brothels or "massage parlors" and this opened my eyes quite a bit.
I was proud of the main character, Victoria, who took that risk to do what she had to do to provide for her son and keep a roof over his head.
She sunk to lows she never thought she would have to go to and encountered women from all walks of life who were at "Pandora's Box" for various reasons.
Very good read.

Pandoras Box should be called Pandora's Drama. This was surely a steam roller. Baby girl Victoria's life gonna have you really hoping she was a lil more ghetto in the beginning because she never stand up for herself or does she. Get the book and see if life in the brothel is really life or a heavy weight. Allison never fail me. Pandora's Box: A Novel (Zane Presents) definitely have four corners of drama on 19th and Market in Philadelphia.

The book is soo boring. I had previously rwad put a ring on it by hobbs. That was a slow book, but I wanted to give hobbs a chance. I read the book on my way to kansas, from where I live, ita 8hrs away. So I had time to waste. The whole time am thinking who is who. With it being a whore house, theses ladies are pretty boring and seemingly unattractive. I couldn't keeep up with the personalities or the main character victoria.. I havrny fifnished the book yet, because in my mnd am guessing the end. However I will finish it... EVENTUALLy. If you want the book, which in my opinion you not messing anything, borrow it, I said borrow not buy or purchase..