House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

 

Hello my lovely readers!

This was another Libby audiobook exclusive. The plot kind of hooked me, but this was just one weird book...and not in a good way. Let's get into it!

SUMMARY

19-year-old Magnolia Brown is broke and grieving. Her grandmother, Mama Brown, just died; her mom is nowhere to be found, and Magnolia has to figure out how to make ends meet to pay rent for her predatory landlord.

She chances upon meeting Cotton, a funeral director who offers her a job modeling. Magnolia accepts and dresses up as the deceased loved one of families and friends looking for one more conversation with their dearly departed. All is well and Magnolia is bringing in the cash, but as Cotton's requests become increasingly weird, she discovers there's a lot more at stake than just her financial woes.

MY THOUGHTS

Like I said before, this book was weird. It had no plot, no conclusive ending, just strange.

What was the point of this book? Magnolia was pregnant, then she got an abortion. She keeps seeing her death grandmother who is falling apart and urging her to see her aborted fetus. She's modeling and then having random sex with men she meets on Tinder. She ends up sleeping with Cotton (who has a weird kink himself). Then she leaves the company.

Mama Brown's ghost and whenever Magnolia thought of herself as an inanimate object were the only highlights of this novel to me.

There really was no plot to this book at all. I couldn't connect with it in any way. I was initially interested in this book because I used to work in the funeral industry, but this was just all over the place and at the same time nowhere at all.