Date Finished: 18 July 2013
Series: Flappers, #1
Rating: 4*
Read the Goodreads description here.
You know when you’ve had a book sitting in your bedside table for absolute ages but you feel guilty about reading it because you’re supposed to be reading something else which you really can’t get through, so every time you pick it up your brain is like: “Nooooo you monster, you should be reading Pride and Prejudice because it’s a classic and you have an exam on it in a week, this is wrong this is wrong this is wrong!” so you only end up reading a page, but once Pride and Prejudice is finished, you just pick up that book and devour it in a couple of days, cover to cover, like that ice cream you’ve wanted for months but knew you shouldn’t have then finally caved because, duh, it’s ice cream.
Ahem. So, um… yeah that was pretty much my relationship with
this book. And to make it even worse, it’s exam time, so there was the added
guilt of, “You need to study! You can’t fail school! You need school to pass at
life!” but that little voice was easy to shut up with a cup of tea and a book…
with an open Maths textbook nearby.
I’m not going to lie, books set in the early 1900s are kind
of my kryptonite. There’s just enough drama and scandal to make it interesting,
but no supernatural creatures, or balls, or skinny jeans, or corsets. And of
course, there’s always the promise of the Three Glorious G’s when reading a
Flapper-esque novel - glamour, gossip, and guys. The juicier the gossip, the
badder the boys (badder? Really, Amy? And to think I just did a blog on
grammar… oh the delicious irony…), the more glamorous the… everything, really.
Of course, Vixen was no exception to this rule of
Flapper-dom (okay, wow… today is really not my day). And the tree-way narrative
actually worked. Usually it really annoys me that just as one character’s story
is getting interesting, the chapter ends and another character jumps in with
another drama. The writing was good overall, but every now and again I couldn’t
help feeling the teeniest bit bored, hence the four-out-of-five stars. On the
whole though, I couldn’t and wouldn’t put it down.
I’m just a little annoyed at the ending. I really do NOT
want to go and start the second one just to find out what happens to everyone
(notice how I’m trying something new, called NOT SPOILING THE STORY – probably my
biggest flaw) because I really DO have to go study for exams… I’m also trying
this new thing called NOT FAILING SCHOOL, which just isn’t working out seeing
as I’m prolonging the large Physics cramming session I should have started by
now by writing a review for a book, which prevented me from studying in the
first place… Why is my life such a mess? (That was a rhetorical question. Don’t
answer it; I like living in denial.)
But we all know that someday, somewhere, I will go read that
book… And I’ll love it… It just can’t be today (whyyyyyy? I want it nowwww
*sob*) because I have to study.
P.S. I just had three cups of coffee. I don’t know if you
can tell…
P.P.S. Go and do your studying or whatever you should be
doing because I know you’re procrastinating at something but before you do go
watch my favourite procrastination video that I watch while I’m
procrastinating here
P.P.P.S. Please comment in the comment box below because I
know you have something to say that I want to hear be brave don’t be sad you
know you want to comment and while you’re here you should also hit that
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something new I didn’t actually I did but you know poetic license and all I
should really go study now BYEEEEE
Read my blog on grammar here
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