Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford has a lot going on in its story. It's a love story, a look at Seattle and the World's Fair during the 1910s and 1960s, and a look at the world of human trafficking. The story is interesting but not gripping. The characters particularly the secondary ones (the upstairs girls and downstairs girls) are not really well developed and in a book with so much going on, that only adds to the blur of it. Some of the plot points are not really well explained or seem to defy the logic of the situation (ex: Fahn's story line).

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