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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
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This is one of my favourite YA, guilty pleasure, get-me-out-of-a-slump books. It’s just so fun and easy to read.
I love all the characters. Gloria, Lorraine, and Clara are all great main characters and narrators, and I enjoy all of their perspectives.
I also love all the tropes in this book. They were all predictable, but I love them nonetheless. The “fake dating oops I fell in love” trope, the “stern man with a soft spot for his love” trope, forbidden romance, pining best friends. They’re good tropes, Brent.
I also love the plot and setting. Flappers? Yes please. The white, seemingly perfect girl who wants to be a singer and is falling in love with the black musician? Also yes please. Illicit speakeasys, gangsters, secrets. Yes to all of them.
So, is this book groundbreaking? No. Is it predictable? Yes. But I don’t care because it’s a fun, easy read, and sometimes that’s all you need.
I love all the characters. Gloria, Lorraine, and Clara are all great main characters and narrators, and I enjoy all of their perspectives.
I also love all the tropes in this book. They were all predictable, but I love them nonetheless. The “fake dating oops I fell in love” trope, the “stern man with a soft spot for his love” trope, forbidden romance, pining best friends. They’re good tropes, Brent.
I also love the plot and setting. Flappers? Yes please. The white, seemingly perfect girl who wants to be a singer and is falling in love with the black musician? Also yes please. Illicit speakeasys, gangsters, secrets. Yes to all of them.
So, is this book groundbreaking? No. Is it predictable? Yes. But I don’t care because it’s a fun, easy read, and sometimes that’s all you need.
It was really slow in the beginning and I am not a huge fan of how the book ended and it just wasn't all that great
My Thoughts: It was just fabulous!
Vixen is set in the 1920s, which is my favorite time-period to read about. This is why I can easily say that I LOVED this book! I have said this a million times before and I'll say it a million times more, I was born in the wrong era!
The story moves incredibly fast and is really well written. I never got bored, not once. It was a great change from all the paranormals and dystopias that are so huge in YA books. I have always had a fascination with this time-period, as I mentioned before, but I don't have much luck in finding good books set in it. Larkin made me forget about our modern world for the day that it took me to read this novel and it felt like I was transported back in time to the world of Gloria, Lorraine and Clara. The story changed from the point of view of each girl every chapter, but once again I was impressed with how flawlessly the author pulled this off. I was never confused as to what was happening, as it was all chronological. The characterization in this book was phenomenal. Each girl had their own lives, their own struggles, their own flaws. Each of them have very different lives that show us unique aspects of the decade. I loved that Larkin was able to show Lorraine in a way that, although her actions should make the reader despise her, she was really just a damaged and jealous girl in need of a hug.
Now, onto the romance side of things. Of course! This was a part of Vixen that both bugged me and intrigued me. The fact that Marcus and Gloria are just friends was delightful. No love-triangle there, with the forbidden love and the best friend. It was obvious that there was no way that could happen, which made me extremely pleased. That type of triangle gets a bit old after a while, don't you think? So I suppose I should actually specify the 'forbidden love' as Jerome Johnson, the African-American piano player. It was sort of an almost love at first sight situation with Gloria and Jerome, but of course it blossomed into something more. I felt as if their relationship took of very quickly and there wasn't a lot of time in between when they were singing in the basement and when they were sipping hot chocolate at the ice rink. It was sweet, but a little fast in my opinion. I don't even know why I think that, but I do. Then there's Sebastian, Gloria's fiance. No doubt about it, I didn't feel any sympathy for him at all. He was just a lying, cheating pig in my eyes. GO JEROME!
The end of this novel was crazy. I was kind of expecting it, but not so much that I didn't enjoy it. The shock of it all was a huge twist from the romantic scene right before. It left me craving more of this incredible world that Larkin wrote about and I really wanted to go talk to my great-grandmother to see if she could tell me any stories of her mother in the twenties. Vixen is the perfect novel for anyone who takes interest in the Roaring Twenties and I'd recommend it to anyone who is getting tired of the same old YA material, (that I enjoy, of course) and are needing a break. Larkin has written a novel that is intricate and detailed, suspenseful and amusing. I loved every minute of it and I can't wait to get my hands on Ingenue, once it is restocked in the bookstore.
Vixen is set in the 1920s, which is my favorite time-period to read about. This is why I can easily say that I LOVED this book! I have said this a million times before and I'll say it a million times more, I was born in the wrong era!
The story moves incredibly fast and is really well written. I never got bored, not once. It was a great change from all the paranormals and dystopias that are so huge in YA books. I have always had a fascination with this time-period, as I mentioned before, but I don't have much luck in finding good books set in it. Larkin made me forget about our modern world for the day that it took me to read this novel and it felt like I was transported back in time to the world of Gloria, Lorraine and Clara. The story changed from the point of view of each girl every chapter, but once again I was impressed with how flawlessly the author pulled this off. I was never confused as to what was happening, as it was all chronological. The characterization in this book was phenomenal. Each girl had their own lives, their own struggles, their own flaws. Each of them have very different lives that show us unique aspects of the decade. I loved that Larkin was able to show Lorraine in a way that, although her actions should make the reader despise her, she was really just a damaged and jealous girl in need of a hug.
Now, onto the romance side of things. Of course! This was a part of Vixen that both bugged me and intrigued me. The fact that Marcus and Gloria are just friends was delightful. No love-triangle there, with the forbidden love and the best friend. It was obvious that there was no way that could happen, which made me extremely pleased. That type of triangle gets a bit old after a while, don't you think? So I suppose I should actually specify the 'forbidden love' as Jerome Johnson, the African-American piano player. It was sort of an almost love at first sight situation with Gloria and Jerome, but of course it blossomed into something more. I felt as if their relationship took of very quickly and there wasn't a lot of time in between when they were singing in the basement and when they were sipping hot chocolate at the ice rink. It was sweet, but a little fast in my opinion. I don't even know why I think that, but I do. Then there's Sebastian, Gloria's fiance. No doubt about it, I didn't feel any sympathy for him at all. He was just a lying, cheating pig in my eyes. GO JEROME!
The end of this novel was crazy. I was kind of expecting it, but not so much that I didn't enjoy it. The shock of it all was a huge twist from the romantic scene right before. It left me craving more of this incredible world that Larkin wrote about and I really wanted to go talk to my great-grandmother to see if she could tell me any stories of her mother in the twenties. Vixen is the perfect novel for anyone who takes interest in the Roaring Twenties and I'd recommend it to anyone who is getting tired of the same old YA material, (that I enjoy, of course) and are needing a break. Larkin has written a novel that is intricate and detailed, suspenseful and amusing. I loved every minute of it and I can't wait to get my hands on Ingenue, once it is restocked in the bookstore.
If the 1920s were a pile of information, Larkin only took what she found on the very top. She threw in some 20s jargon, very unnaturally, and focused mainly on fashion. Which does not create an immersive experience for the reader. The 20s did have some cool fashion but flappers were far more than that, this book does not show it. Rich teenagers who want to dress like one and drink, a lot. The characters are all pretty flat and stereotypes. They also completely change their personalities by the flip of the page. Larkin also doesn’t deliver climactic moments well either. Nothing made me want to keep reading. The book ends on a “bit” of a cliffhanger but I have no desire to read the next. The writing is a bit like a fanfic by a new writer. This story does not live up to the cover that originally drew me in.
I really felt immersed in the atmosphere of a dark, smoky speakeasy. I did get rather tired of all the "what do you want?" and "how do you feel?" questions all the time. Also, I was annoyed by the cliff-hanger ending . However, I did like it enough to read the next in the series.
When I first started reading this I was a bit worried I wouldn't like it but it actually ended up being a pretty good story. The characters are all interesting and I enjoyed the 3 different narrations in the story. There were also a couple of interesting surprises at the end that I wasn't expecting. I'm definitely excited to read the next book.
Started slow but picked up after a few chapters. Not sure how accurate any of it could be it seems a little far fetched historically. I can't see high society girls being flappers but I might need to read up more on that time period. It was a good story and I will finish the series.
It was a rich and captivating story. Good girl Gloria, manipulative Lorraine and secretive Clara were exciting to read about. It was full of action, complicated storylines, and boys that added into this series. I LOVED IT!