The Ease of Access by Jeff Musillo

The Ease of Access by Jeff Musillo

Review by Stephanie Wallace

Overall Rating: 4 stars

Overall Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 252
Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Ease-Access-Jeff-Musillo/dp/1491838574


Synopsis:
(Directly from Amazon.com) - The Love Is Gone In this tell-all, our bored, apathetic and greedy narrator embarks on a mission to demolish his world by revealing the ins and outs of his former job as: Hollywood's Most Wanted Prostitute. Does he feel superior? Does he feel remorse? Does he feel anything?

My synopsis: The narrator sets up his tell-all tale about four of his former clients as a Hollywood hooker.  Each tale is a short story of sorts providing insight into the psyche of those who would solicit a prostitute and further divulges the blasé attitude of the narrator.

Review:  The author does an excellent job of keeping to the narrator’s “voice”.  He establishes the character without ever giving us any physical description or even so much as a name – all of our interaction as the reader is from an emotionally detached perspective.  While no formal names are ever introduced for any of the subjects, the author does an amazing job of enticing the reader into guessing who his Hollywood subjects really are and if in fact they are fictitious.  The verbiage is eloquent – beautiful even, poetic by all rights.  It is apparent that Mr. Musillo is a poet and master of the English language.  My only suggestion or critique would be that the narration have more peaks and valleys, anticipation, climax.  It reads more as a memoir than a work of fiction – which may be what the author intended.