Riding In Cars With Girls edition by Evangeline Jennings Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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A transgressive and cauterizing crime fiction collection with more twists and turns than a high mountain road, Riding in Cars with Girls is a hard, fast, and beautifully dangerous read. Consider the evidence
FIREBIRD -- A small town cocktail waitress. A glamorous stranger behind the wheel of a stolen muscle car. A raging forest fire. What could possibly go wrong?
ESCORT -- A high class hooker fucks a Mafia Don to death and the fallout forces an undercover Fed to make the toughest call of her career. Should she do her job or the right thing?
911 -- Alex is doomed. Nikki's along for the ride. Something about fjords.
AUDI -- South London's finest teenage car thieves stake their lives on an illegal road race.
TRANS AM -- A widow hunts her husband's killer across America. Route 666.
CROWN VICTORIA -- Two young runaway lovers with a steep price on their heads take a savage roadtrip through every kind of crazy.
Riding In Cars With Girls -- Dangerous curves ahead.
Riding In Cars With Girls edition by Evangeline Jennings Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Hey "noir" tough guys, watch out. These girls want to play, and they have been schooled in hard knocks of the kind most guys don't even know enough to have nightmares about. They're hot, sure, but they're not interested in you (and given the swinish males they have experience of, who dast blame them?) Look at them crosswise, or get in their way, and you're likely to get a bullet in the gut rather than a fist to the jaw.The writing pops and sizzles. Graphic sex and violence done with high literary flair and panache. Highly recommended.
This review is cross-posted at Goodreads and on my blog, [...]
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Riding In Cars With Girls edition by Evangeline Jennings Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Riding in Cars with Girls, a collection of six Fem Noir short stories and novellas, offers something for all but the most delicate readers. If you're looking for smart-talking pulpy thrills with bloody violence and explicit sex, climb aboard. If you love strong women taking matters into their own hands, step right up. If you want to peel back the action and read thoughtful reflections on every kind of identity, get in here.
Author Jennings was an editor and contributor on Cars and Girls, an earlier Fem Noir collection from Pankhearst. This time out, she's flying solo. Each story has its own voice, but they are thematically linked by, duh, cars and girls. They proceed at reckless speed with a high body count. I recommend taking a break between stories to use the bathroom, tell your family you love them, and remind yourself that probably no one is trying to kill you. But if you find yourself compulsively turning the pages, I'll understand
"Firebird" starts off with a song quote and seems at first like a possibly shaggy story being told at a bar the narrator met an alluring stranger who turned a sleepy town on its ear. This is a tale of revenge served very hot, with a devastating twist at the end.
"Escort" introduces a call-girl who has killed a powerful client, and the undercover cop who throws everything away to protect her. These two alternate narration right up to a twist ending that left me gasping.
"911" is part Scandinavian travelogue (structured like a Jarmusch movie, with long silences broken by occasional quirky utterances), part gritty fairy tale, with wise-cracking hero Alex riding a Porsche 911 to the rescue of Nikki, a sexy damsel in distress. After an early outburst of bloody action, this is the story of a long drive, and two people gradually opening up. The third-person narration cleverly and gracefully refrains from ever using a pronoun for protagonist Alex, who is biologically female but identifies as a man. Alex has trouble aplenty, but keeps the focus on getting Nikki to safety, and then on disappearing with a secret only hinted at in the narrative.
"Audi" follows Helen and Wendy, two teenagers from public housing, driving a stolen car in a road race that looks like their only ticket to a better life. Keeping to the identity theme, "Helen" is a street name and she never reveals any other. Wendy is Deaf but not disabled, as she demonstrates with her smarts and her driving. There's more than a little Springsteen in this tale of impulsive young lovers trying to break free the only way they know how.
"Trans Am" twists and twists again as the narrator travels Route 66 and gradually reveals layers and spirals of family dysfunction and abuse, right down to a shocker of an ending.
"Crown Victoria" was the jewel of Cars and Girls, and it was a pleasure to encounter it again in a new setting. Back then, I wrote, ". . . this story is thrilling and funny . . . and a surprising love story. It twists and twists again, and then when you think you have it figured out, twists one more time." Reading it a second time, I already knew the secrets, but that did not diminish the enjoyment. A tour de force of withheld information, the first-person narration never reveals the protagonist's name, age, biological sex, gender identity or preferred pronoun -- all information we've come to think we need in order to "know" a person. All of these things are hinted at and at the end, revealed, but by then, it hardly matters. The character has become a person. This is a story of rescue and revenge, with lots of bloody violence, explicit, rough sex, and an epic American road trip. More than that, it is a story of how much a person might risk for the one they love.
It's a such a simple idea when you think of it, take a standard noir setting, with added muscle cars, old cars, fast cars and gorgeous cars, and replace the male characters with female ones. It makes enormous sense to me, especially as I grew up in a country town where girls driving hotted up cars, and hanging around hotted up cars was pretty common. Granted there was a bit of dating of boys driving hotted up cars as well - but really we could have just had all those cars to ourselves.
Evangeline Jennings does a good job of building up her dark and dangerous settings and scenarios. In a series of unconnected (apart from the girls and the cars thing) short stories, a series of plot's are played out that come straight from the noir theme park. The dialogue is crisp and clever, the settings are frequently dry and dusty or mean and nasty, although there's some in the story 911 that could have come straight from the Scandi-tourism bods.
The twisting of expectation is done so elegantly and seamlessly that there's nothing here at all that screams "setup". That idea of women on the edge is so convincingly delivered, so believable that there's not a speed bump in sight when it comes to accepting either plot or motivation. Everything in these short stories is as it should be when it comes to dark, twisted and desperate. The sex is explicitly love, lust and control; the drinking is hard; the language is profane and profound; and the cars, of course, are fast and dangerous. Anybody who has read the other short story collection, CARS & GIRLS will recognise the last story - CROWN VICTORIA from that so there's a good opportunity for a re-read right there.
Fans of noir stylings, of pointed, sharp and unexpected storytelling that pulls no punches, holds no bars and gets right up in your face really should be doing themselves a favour and reading both of these collections.
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An in-your-face book of writing that will grab you. I appreciate writers who are somewhat off the grid, and Jennings is one of those I am happy to support. Check out this book as a resource for wider reading.
Hey "noir" tough guys, watch out. These girls want to play, and they have been schooled in hard knocks of the kind most guys don't even know enough to have nightmares about. They're hot, sure, but they're not interested in you (and given the swinish males they have experience of, who dast blame them?) Look at them crosswise, or get in their way, and you're likely to get a bullet in the gut rather than a fist to the jaw.
The writing pops and sizzles. Graphic sex and violence done with high literary flair and panache. Highly recommended.
This review is cross-posted at Goodreads and on my blog, [...]
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