What first drew me into Servicing the Pole was the quick, succinct voice of the character.  It is written in first person present tense—something that usually bothers me—but I scarcely noticed it when I began to read. 

Servicing the Pole isn’t a happy story—in fact, most of the time I found myself uncomfortable reading it, faced with issues I don’t usually face either in fiction or in real life.  As mentioned by the blurb above, Servicing the Pole is a story about a stripper who has bigger dreams than shedding her clothes.  At first, there is a distinction in her mind between stripping and prostitution, but as the story continues, the stakes become higher and the line begins to blur.  Hard, uncomfortable questions are raised by the narrator which will hopefully be answered in the continuing chapters (so far, there are only twenty six chapters up).

The prose is as raw and undecorated as the story itself.  It reads brutally, often uncomfortably, honest.  I found it refreshing.

If grey, gritty stories are what you like, this might be for you.

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