Vacuum in the Dark

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Beagin, Jen	4-week checkout	Due 04-29-2024
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Beagin, Jen	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024

Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend--a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story--and her efforts to restart her life since haven't exactly gone as planned. For one thing she's got another bad boyfriend. She calls this one Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona's clients. Dark and his wife aren't the only complicated clients on Mona's roster...there's also the Hungarian artist couple who remind her of troubling aspects of her past and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As Mona tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the pains of her youth, she winds up on an eccentric, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to the home she grew up in and that--she hopes--will unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future.

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Disappointing submitted by lizgiessner on July 7, 2023, 9:26am This was a disappointing sequel to "Pretend I'm Dead" which I really liked. Mona continues to have strange relationships, but in this book, they feel forced and "over-the-top". Also, Mona's musings seem more random, less meaningful, and often ridiculous. I still do like Beagin's writing style, but more often than not I did not enjoy this book.