All in all, this was probably on par with the first book in the series, though a bit higher on drama. A fourth narrating character was added to the mix, this one a poor black girl rather than a white socialite. However, the entire book is mostly focused on finding Gloria and Jerome and saving the...
Ingenue is very different from the first book, Vixen, in that we’re already familiar with the world of the flappers. Gloria has very truly rebelled this time and is bold enough to live alone (and unmarried) with a black man in 1920s America. I don’t know about you, but it takes a lot of courage...
J’ai lu il y a peu, le premier tome de cette saga, et j’avais vraiment apprécié, je n’ai donc pas résisté longtemps avant de me replonger dans l’histoire de Gloria, Clara et Lorraine.Si le premier tome, nous permettait d’entrevoir le monde des garçonnes, des bars clandestins, ça restait tout de ...
Ever since the debutante dinner, Clara’s social calendar had been just short of full. First Ginnie Bitman’s mother had invited her for lunch on Tuesday, and then on Wednesday she’d gone to Betty Havermill’s estate for a fancy dinner with the girl and her parents. Betty’s father was a famous Chica...
“I don’t see why I have to go to the wedding.”She and Parker sat around the expansive oak table in one of the Manhattanite conference rooms with Solomon, the private dick who had proven invaluable to Clara’s research on Deirdre Van Doren. The rumpled PI was actually a real swell once you got past...