vabalas’s Reviews > Tipping the Velvet > Status Update

Unrealistic af. The protagonist becomes a sex worker, yet the men are never forceful or creepy. She dresses as a man but nobody suspects her of being a woman, and almost every female character is a horny lesbian. Is the author really this naive or does she take the reader for a fool? Are we forgetting that it’s the 1800s? Whats the purpose of writing abt the past if the portrayal of it is unrealistic anyway?

18th page and I’m missing my summer job at a music hall💔 I’m tired and slow, but my imagination is heightened in states like this. Blushing and loving this book already

5 pages in and i already want to try an oyster though ive always refused to