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Title: Graphic, But Great
Review: If you read Slammerkin or The Dress Lodger, you'll enjoy this book as well: it's very similar to the former, and less dreary than the latter. However, this book shares their somewhat gruesome graphic quality (the smells sometime virtually rise off the page) - it's not for the faint of heart. More positively, "The Crimson Petal" shows that even in an age of both figurative and literal constriction, women could escape their exploiters/oppressors. Like the reviewer ..., I was somewhat frustrated by the abrupt ending of this novel, though its deliberate ambiguity may simply be reflective of the uncertainty of the times and the charcters' morality themselves. A warning: jlind's review mentions a critical plot point that occurs near the end of the book - it's better to skip reading it, if you want that point to reveal itself to you.
