The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay

You read the title and you think this book is gonna be about sex, and you're partly right. This isn't Fifty Shades sex though. Sorry, but if that is what you are looking for you won't get it with this book. I ask that you don't let that stop you from reading this book though as it is worth the read. The main character is a young girl named Moth (so named by her absentee father), she lives in the tenements in New York City with her Gypsy mother. One evening she is awaken by her mother and whisked a lady, she finds herself serving a very cruel master. Upon her escape Moth finds that her Mother has moved on and she is on her own, what's a girl to do? Moth finds herself recruited into a brothel, where she has many difficult decisions to make about her life.
The biggest flaw in the writing of this book were the little "tidbits" that the author added, it was distracting and made the story line seem disjointed. Some of the "tidbits" actually contain useful information that pertain to the story line and others are superfluous to the point they were annoying. Luckily the "tidbits" are in bold print so they are easy to over look ( I read this on my Kindle so I have no idea how this appears in an actual book).
I enjoyed reading this book, read it in less than day. I found Moth to be an interesting character, not just that she has a super cool name. Moth isn't the only fascinating character, we are introduced to a female doctor in 1871. I wish there had been a bit more character development and more background on Dr. Sadie.
The Virgin Cure is only Ms. McKay's second novel, not too shabby. Am I going to immediately run out and buy her first novel? No. I will, however, add her first book The Birth House to my book list and see if I can loan it from the library on my kindle. I am trying to figure out what category I would put this book: one I would buy or one I would only loan. I do not feel that this book falls into the category of  "OMG you HAVE to read this book!" but it also isn't in the "well that was a waste of a day that I'll never get back again". A good beach read, I will say that. I'm pleased that I read it but it doesn't fall into my re-read category so for me this is a loaner book but I don't think anyone should pass this one up.