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Riding In Cars With Girls Kindle Edition

by Evangeline Jennings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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.
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    April 16, 2015
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"A smashing, original collection likely to be read again and again." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Very clever stories crammed with thrills and twists, I can't recommend this read highly enough." -- Julie Shaw, author of the best selling true crime saga, 'Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family'.

"Consistently tightly-paced, audacious and action-driven. In signature Jennings style, characters are damaged, damned and dangerous, and never quite what they seem. With her recognisably distinctive, dynamic and subversive voice, Jennings' narrators take us on a twisting, twisted joyride with sex, violence and secrets at each sharp and screeching turn." -- For Books' Sake

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00SENEHLI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Starshy
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 16, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 788 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 387 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Evangeline Jennings

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Evangeline Jennings is an unreliable narrator. She tells lies for fun and profit. Mostly fun.

If Evangeline was a song - and she'd really like to be, she'd be "Public Image" by PiL or possibly "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore.

Born and raised in Liverpool, where they invented football and popular music, she now lives in Austin, Texas. The black sheep of her family, she comes from a long line of Californian beauty queens on her mother's side. As she so often says, Northern Scum, Southern Belle.

Evangeline watches an awful lot of movies and TV. During the break she cooks popcorn and writes stories about revenge.

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  • Words, Images, & Worlds
    5.0 out of 5 stars In-your-face writing that is strong...
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017
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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.
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  • Karen Eisenbrey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buckle up.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2015
    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.
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  • Benoit Lelievre
    3.0 out of 5 stars Quite unique
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2015
    This was a perplexing read, but it had the merit of being interesting. The stories in themselves are quite standard crime fiction, but it's the way Evangeline Jennings have of telling them that's quite unique and sometimes fascinating. It seems like each novella is the ending of a longer story. Her characters have already changed at the beginning and are assuming new selves. The action is really blunt and the dialogue crude, like everything has been decided already. It's quite the mental gymnastics to try and piece up their lives together, but it sure it new. It causes pacing issues sometimes because Jennings doesn't seem aware of how she's writing, but it could very well become her biggest strength.

    Another weird quick of RIDING IN CARS WITH GIRLS is that sometimes the narrative will take a vacation for, let's say 5 or 6 chapters and you'll be left to deal with HOT, STEAMING (sometimes lesbian) action that borderlines on erotica. I don't read to get horny so it kind of bugged me, but I have to admit: it's very well written and it made me really uncomfortable to read in front of my co-workers sometimes :) Evangeline Jennings really knows what makes a woman beautiful, I'll just leave it at that. It was too much, too long for me these scenes, but if Evangeline Jennings learns how to channel these into better structured stories (structure is really the only place where her writing sometimes goes wrong), it'll be another tool in her set, because she has a knack for it.

    If your fiction has flaws, you should pray they are interesting flaws and Evangeline Jennings' fiction definitely is!
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  • Kelly Smith Reviews
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fast-paced and bad a**!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2015
    Riding In Cars With Girls is a great, fast-paced short story collection. It has a dark, noir setting, adding in hot rods driven by kick-a** females. My personal favorite was Audi, but no story here is lacking anything. You've got murder, sex, burglary and so much more crammed into very little space. But it's not crowded, it's just right. Like a bunch of teenagers filling a car to capacity, you know what you're getting into, but still run in to some surprises.
    I can't give this a very involved review, because I don't want to spoil the mystery of the stories for you. Just know that Evangeline Jennings wrote a great collection, one that many readers will be able to enjoy, no matter your gender.
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