The Fair Fight is about a girl who grows up in a brothel (a fancy word
for a place men go to have sex with the ladies for money) and becomes a boxer
until she gets hurt. It’s also about a woman who has to marry a man she doesn’t
love and who doesn’t love her, and about a man who loves himself more than the
people he’s sleeping with. Their lives crash together with fists, bloody
brawls, and pregnant bellies everyone learns something in the end.
Really, The Fair
Fight is about a girl, her brother, and her brother’s boyfriend. It’s also
about a girl, her sister, her mother, and her husband. It’s also about learning
to be a woman, to love someone who’s hard to love, to stop being a doormat to
someone who’s not worth loving, to be a friend, to survive when no one cares if
you do.
My first Goodreads
update while reading this book was not hopeful. The book was feeling endless
and I was mostly disinterested in the characters. I think part of my problem
was because the story starts with Ruth, whose language is heavy with the common
slang of her impoverished neighborhood. This made the book a little hard to get
into at first and Ruth hard to connect with. Once the stories started mingling
together, it picked up. The scenes are well described and the characters seem
realistic. There were still parts that seemed to drag or seemed mostly for show
and to add pages to this beast of a tome.
My
final Goodreads post: this book took a bit of getting used to. Solid story, a
few twists. Good characters and an easy villain. A solid read.
If
you are looking for a story focused on girls boxing or “the Female Fight Club,”
you’re going to be disappointed.
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