What would your stage name be if you were a stripper? I’m going with Aquamarine since colors seems to be popular. In Marie Rutkoski’s Real Easy we get to know the inner world of a strip club. Samantha aka Ruby is a stripper in 1999 at the Lovely Lady. She’s such an awesome person. An amazing stepmom, loving girlfriend, adored daughter, and a caring coworker. She also suffers from a medical condition in which she doesn’t have female hormones, so she takes medications to keep her more feminine qualities. We get to know a handful of strippers who all have colorful lives which we get to appreciate through the chapters they narrate. One of the strippers gets killed and another is missing. In the investigation into the murder and disappearance, we also get to know, Detective Holly Meylin, an investigator whose son died when her husband leaves him in a hot car. She’s traumatized but keeps going the best she can. Holly see...