3.75 stars? I didn't like it as much as I did the first one, but just because the beginning was a bit slow. That said, Anna Godbersen is still one on my guilty pleasures and that's not gonna change any time soon. Her stories have something I crave. There's a lot of drama and a bit of romance. And...
The second novel in the Beautiful Young Things trilogy. In the second novel, we follow the lives of the three women we met in the first novel. It’s a rather dull novel, and is full of filler material that is boring, and not that exciting. It will probably lead to what’s to come, but for a whole n...
I enjoyed reading this book but it was a little bit of a let-down after reading the first book in the series and it looks as though this series is a bit bland compared to the Luxe series. The writing style is pretty and light and the cover design is beautiful and recognisable as a series, which I...
"I've never fooled anyone, darling. Sometimes I've just let men fool themselves."Wow. That's all I can really say about this book. And this is a good wow. Just from this sentence, one can glean so much from the whole plot of the story.I was perusing the shelves at work (putting away books of cour...
It's September 1899 and the Manhattan season is starting off with a bang. Elizabeth Holland, the darling of the high society set, has returned from her year in Paris in time for the first ball of the season, held at her best friend Penelope Hayes' newly finished and incredibly vulgar mansion. Pen...
She pushed a stray curl away from her nose and wondered at all that enormous feeling that remained within her, even after so many blows. It was now clear that she had deceived herself all those long months—and yet she still yearned for Henry. When she thought of him she thought of the breakers in...
could be heard up and down the platform. Inside the simple wooden waiting room, in the small mountain town where Will and Elizabeth had disembarked, benches emptied and hats were clutched as travelers ran for the lumbering iron beast that was preparing to depart again. The table between Will and ...
Two file://C:\Documents and Settings\nickunj\Desktop\book.html 10/28/2009 Page 2 of 128 THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES WERE SO THICK AND verdant… Three “THEY SAY THEY’LL BE CALLING TROOPS HOME SOON,” Colonel Copper… Four THE HEAT WAS STIFLING, AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE inch of floor—from… Five “THEY’VE AL...
Jones was speaking, too, in his more quiet and measured voice, which told Cordelia that it was something to do with the business and that she would learn of it eventually. But her body was still pliant with sleep, and she didn’t feel like talking to her brother when he was angry. Twisting her lon...
Astrid had spent its final blue hours beside the Marsh Hall pool, which was set somewhat beyond the house, between a pair of white stucco bungalows and two rows of tall, thin cypress trees. She had let the sun brown her skin and wondered whether she should explain to Charlie what she had erroneou...