Review of "Tattoo Girl" by Brooke Stevens

This horror tale is a bit different, but as the saying goes, once you pick up the book it is hard to put down.

When a young girl is found alone in an Ohio shopping mall after closing hours, the police find that she is unable to speak and covered with from head to toe with fish-scale tattoos. Along comes a woman named Lucy who adopts the young mute. Lucy was herself straight out of a circus having been in shows around the state as the "fat-girl" in a small tent carnival. While Lucy was the fat-girl, she was treated badly by her fellow performers. The owner of the circus regularly forced Lucy into sexual relations, and she had fallen in love with another performer who went along with the gang in treating her badly.

Now our mute feels very close to Lucy as both of them on embark on a journey of discovery and entrapped in a terrifyingly brutal kidnapping of both of them by Lucy's former abuser.