DNF. I did not like the story at all, The writing style wasn't for me and I couldn't stand Kandace.

I voluntarily read the advanced sneak peak of this book and I loved it. I need more ASAP, I can not wait for this book to come out!

While I like the serious underlying issue that this book addresses (young girls going off alone and being seduced into a different world).. I just couldn't get into it!
I did not connect at all with Kandice!! In fact I actually really really disliked her! I found it hard to read because of my feelings for her!

I don't even know what to say about this book.. it just wasn't for me ✋🏼

I really, truly enjoyed reading this book even though it was completely unrealistic. Kandace is a good girl with a big heart. After her mom is in a horrible car accident, Kandace takes care of her as well as her own younger sisters. They rely on their aunt V to help out as well. Kandace’s dad has been gone for two years and she has only spoken to him a few times over the phone. He sends money but it is nowhere enough for Kandace and her family to live off of, especially with her mom’s medical bills. Kandace decides to go find her dad and what he is up to and why he can’t come home. She goes on a roadtrip with her boyfriend Kyle who has to turn back, leaving Kandace at the bus stop. At the bus stop, Kandace meets April, an exotic dancer who ends up taking Kandace under her wing. Making several thousands of dollars a night and getting free designer clothing is not half bad, Kandace decides. The story goes back and forth about Kandace being a dancer and at the same time trying to figure out her dad’s exact whereabouts. Like I said, this story was pretty unrealistic and really glamorized the world of exotic dancing, taking drugs, and having what seemed like endless amounts of cash. This was a fun book to read. I would recommend it as a beach read.

Thank you to Netgalley, Renee Blossom, and Revolve for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I was given an advanced copy of Goodbye, Good Girl by Renee Blossom through netgalley for an honest review. I first off would like to thank Pikko’s house/Revolve along with the author for the opportunity to read this novel.
Kandace is an eighteen-year-old girl who just want to do write by her family. I found the first few chapters of this book really sad because I feel like a young girl should have to do so much to have to take care of her family. I understand that a girl needs answers and I understand that a father has to make a living but I felt that there was so much secrecy that the father daughter bond that should have been there just wasn’t.
As the story progresses Kandace is left by her boyfriend Kyle on her way to California and she is forced to continue the journey alone. I enjoyed the Character of April the girl who gets her into stripping and I enjoyed the story even though some people might find it a little too much I thought it was on the tame side since I don’t think all strippers are treated as well as these two girls were. The only downfall to this story for me is I wish that the father would have either don more to support her or at least not been so judgmental of her life style choices considering he was the reason she started this journey to begin with. Overall a 4-star rating from me. I look forward to reading more from the author.

The synopsis for Goodbye, Girl had me HOOKED and I was so excited to start this one. Unfortunately, it just didn't work for me and I had to DNF (did not finish it) it.

I'm 41% done with Goodbye, Good Girl: DNF'd at 41%. Far-fetched and unrealistic, from the good girl, risking more than necessary to find her disappearing father to the stripping, which sounds more like sex slavery.

Somehow the author manages to make these aspects a bore.

Goodbye, Good Girl sounded like it would be would coming of age type story and while it was, it turned out to be a little bit more of a story about strip clubs to me. Initially, Kandace was taking care of her sister and her Mom who had been in a terrible car accident. And the events occurred, and she went looking for because she believed he was in danger. I had to give her credit for that, I thought she was doing something good for her family. But she got all turned around and ended up meeting a girl who worked in a strip club who talked her into working there for some money to be able to get to where she believed her Dad was. And this is went down hill for me. I’m not really interested in the behind the scenes of a strip club, I really wanted to know if she was going to find her Dad and what was going to happen.

I did get my answers, but I just wish I would have been able to connect with Kandace more, but since most of time was spent with her coming and goings, and happenings within the strip club, my connection with that I had the beginning of the book faded. She redeemed herself in my eyes toward the end and the ending was a fitting one. Now, I see that I am in minority on the reviews, it seems lots of people seemed to enjoy it a lot. And all I can say is, this just wasn’t my kinda read and I had hopes it would have been. I think that fans of contemporary reads will like it.

Great breakout novel! You actually feel like you're living the life of the characters.

The story is contrived, the characters are caricatures and flat, and the plot is completely, utterly unrealistic.

I really liked the sound of this book but when it came to reading it I struggled to push on to the end.

Some parts seemed to go on and on and to be honest I was kind of bored. Kandace seemed to jump real quick into becoming a stripper and taking drugs. The whole search for her father was a bit mysterious but I felt it really culminated in nothing at the end.

It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either.

I was given this book as an ARC through Netgalley (available October 2017) and when I started reading it I wasn't sure I would like it. But somehow I got into this book about Kandace and her life at home. Her priorities such as school and finding her father was heartwarming.

The story takes us on the adventure of 18 year old Kandace, not only trying to find her father, but through the choices she makes when faced being alone and broke. She hooks up with April who turns her on to fast money by teaching her how to poll dance/strip.

Quickly Kandace is hooked on dancing, making money, having clothes - a rich life. But is this the life she wants or does her desire to go to college, and help her family out trump that. A good read and page turner!

Kandace Santellen is 18 years old and has assumed responsibility (to some degree) for her younger siblings and her mother who is addicted to prescription medicines to cope with acute pain from an accident. Her father has been away working for the past two years and is not providing enough money to cope with hospital bills for her mother. Kandy is not ready to go to college (and there is the issue of funding) and teaches dance in a studio to help out financially.

As things escalate she decides to go off in search of her father. She is stranded in St Louis when her boyfriend who was driving her to LA returns home. Approached by April, an exotic dancer, Kandy (stage name Autumn) becomes involved in the seedy world of stripping and drugs. Of course she is immediately a huge hit and earns thousands of dollars a night.

Sorry, but I found this book absolutely ridiculous. It took me a while to get into the vernacular – speech that was just too street which at times was totally incomprehensible to me. Characters that were nearly one dimensional with a plot that just didn’t work. Is this a ‘coming of age’ book – not in my opinion.

Clearly this is not my kind of women’s fiction and I can’t recommend it, but I am sure there will be many who will applaud.

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for providing an ARC via my Kindle in return for an honest review.

There were parts of the book that I had a difficult time believing, while other parts, I could appreciate the situation Kandace found herself in.
Parts of the book felt very rushed, while other parts seemed like it had been going on for months instead of days, and the ending left me feeling like the word allotment had been reach, so the book needed to end.
I'm left feeling like Kandace needs a few stable and reliable adults in her life to help her stay grounded.

I was really intrigued by the premise of this novel so when I was selected by the publisher to read it I was excited. I thought that it started off pretty strong. I read the first half quickly. But there are so many characters that don't add to the story whatsoever (all her friends) and the characters that are important seemed underdeveloped to me (Her mom, April, Markus, Kyle).
I will say that the plot is entertaining and I thought that April had some pretty funny one-liners. But all in all, I thought the number of characters was overwhelming at times and that negatively impacted the book.

I hate giving negative reviews, but this novel had a bit of an identity crisis. It starts out as a family drama, shifts into espionage, then descends into stripper-rama madness. Kandace is 18 years old and wants to go find her dad, who might be a chef or a spy (we never really find out what it is that he does). She convinces her boyfriend to drive her cross country to seek out her dad, which ends with him abandoning her in Atlanta (also for reasons that don't really make sense). With no other options, Kandace meets April, who convinces her to strip for one night in order to raise some cash so she can complete her trip. 5 minutes later, Kandace is one hundred percent on board with stripping and pill popping, which doesn't ring plausible at all given her background in competetive pole and her mother's issues with pills. The story then becomes almost pornographic in nature with over the top descriptions of the girls preforming etc. and by the end of night one, Kandace is participating in sex acts with customers and later, with April. She does eventually accomplish her goal of tracking down her father, but then no real explanations for his absenteeism are given. To wrap this up, I just kind of didn't see the point of this story besides being titillating. Kandace doesn't really learn anything from her experiences and this story doesn't really provide much insight into strip club culture, drug use, or family.

I found this book to start off rather slowly. However, it does pick up after a handful of chapters if you stick with it.

I received an ARC from NetGalley to read and review. The below is my honest, unbiased opinion. Thank you, Renee Blossom, the publisher, and NetGalley, for allowing me to review.

GOODBYE, GOOD GIRL is a coming-of-age story about Kandace Santellan, 18. At the beginning, Kandace is cast as the adult of the family: her father is away working, her mother is a drug user, and she has two sisters who rely on her. When she decides she can no longer handle her life, she decides to leave Pennsylvania for California, where her father is said to be working. On the way there, she's abandoned by her boyfriend in St. Louis. She meets April, an exotic dancer, who offers her a job, promising her enough money to make it the rest of the way to California if she worked just one night. Kandance accepts the offer and is quickly caught up in a lifestyle of lust, drugs, and dancing.

To me, this story screamed of a coming-of-age plot. Kandace (who is sometimes called "Kandy" in the book, a name at which I cringe as it's too cliche for the plot), and the writer relies on common tropes to tell Kandace's story: drug abusing parent, absent role models, a missing father, a child forced into a parental role, first love, first lust, drug using, fantasy lives, a naive main character, etc. Kandance makes her decisions without thinking, typical of a teenager and a coming-of-age story line. I found the author's portrayal of a teenager to be quite realistic. Often, I was cringing at the dialogue or the way Kandance reacted in certain situations, but that's because I'm not a teenager. So while the adult in me cringed, the writer in me respected the author's attempt at crafting an adolescent character in a starring role. I also appreciated that the author stuck to the dark and dirty side of humanity when telling this story. So many glamorize this lifestyle, but we get to see both sides: the fantasy and the pain.

With that being said, I couldn't relate to Kandance. Too many times I cringed at the things she said and the way she acted. I'm a fan of young adult literature, but this coming-of-age story was a little too unrelatable for me. I'm one who strives for realism, even in fantasy literature. So some of the character's cringe-worthy dialogue and unrealistic responses to situations were too hard to ignore.

Good Thursday all , hope your week is going great . Wow this is the last week of August where did the summer go . If you were like me I hope you soaked up the sun and read some really good books . Today we are going to review GOODBYE GOOD GIRL  by Renee Blossom 

                          BOOK BLURB 
    
When eighteen year old Kandace Santellan is ditched in St. Louis by her boyfriend on a cross country trip to reach her estranged father, she finds herself trapped––she can’t go home and she doesn’t have enough money to reach Los Angeles. She then meets April, an ambitious exotic dancer with attitude, who has a one thousand dollar wager––that Kandace can make the money she desperately needs dancing at the gentleman’s club The Palace in just one night. Rumored as an adult playground of fast money and faster pills, it’s a place where fantasy is king and problems are forgotten. Anything can happen.
But can Kandace strip her clothes for money, even if it is her only way to repair her broken family?
Feeling like time is running out, and out of options, she gets curious…thinking that after one wild night dancing, she would be on her way to LA. And her friends and family would never need to know. Could she make it work? Or will the club’s fantasy lifestyle take the good girl from Pittsburgh, and make her into someone she’s never met?
       
                       MY REVIEW 

     When I sat down to read this book I was at a bit of a quandary . Was this a coming of age book a mystery or and adventure read . Meet Kandace a girl who is up against it with mounting medical bills from her moms accident . Younger sisters that she has to take care of . A missing dad that hasn't been home in over two years .  When she has the opportunity to find her dad she takes it . But when she is abandoned by her so called boyfriend she is at her wits end . With a chance meeting with April , she enters a world where money is good and the lifestyle is fast . Will she get to LA will her family find out . 
      The characters in the book are well written but some of the characters came off as being one dimensional . Kandace is the lead character and sometimes you kind of want to slap her and sometimes you want to hug her and tell her that things will be ok . I felt that she was very naïve through out the book . She really didn't have doubts about her new job of dancing and stripping .  April is the friend everyone warns you about . She is there and leading you into some situations that are hysterical but also a little dangerous . She has no filter and will tell you what's what on any occasion . She is such a hoot to read  and you will giggle with some of the things that come out of her mouth . At least I did . 
    This is an intriguing book, you are taking on a journey of self discovery and coming of age . Throw in a little mystery and adventure and you have this book . I kind of felt that the beginning of the book is a bit slow and I wanted the road trip to start sooner . The conversations dragged on and on at the beginning which to me slowed down the build up . When they finally got on the road the book started to pick up steam .  Also I would of liked to see a bit more of the nagging feeling that she shouldn't be stripping instead of jumping right into it and having fun and laughing . Needed to see a bit more nervousness . 
Over all I really did enjoy this book and would recommend it to anyone who wants a good coming of age story mixed with mystery and adventure

This was so good, I have already recommended it to a number of people!