And she wants all this adventure with Frank, and the poor man can only resist her for so long. Over the course of the books, she comes to realise she wants freedom and love and adventure, not just to be a society wife. Mamie is almost engaged to someone else, and Frank knows that if her father knew anything had happened between them, Frank’s whole career would be destroyed.īut Mamie has other ideas. They’re super hot for each other right away, and I liked that they acknowledge this early on, but Frank is very level headed about the fact that it can’t lead anywhere.
Now, the romance is between Mamie, daughter of a super wealthy and old family, who secretly helps financially support poor tenement families, and Frank, her father’s lawyer who is trying to keep her out of trouble. This book isn’t her best for the Gilded Age setting-her most recent Fifth Avenue Rebels series is much more lush-but it’s still fantastic.
Also, she really drew the opulent setting of gilded age millionaires so vividly, but didn’t shy away from the seedy tenements and squalor the poor had to contend with.
I live in New York, and getting little references to places that existed in a completely different way 130 years ago was super cool. So far, this one is by FAR my favorite, though I’ve got the rest of this series to read, so that might change.įirst of all, the setting was brilliant. I’ve recently developed an interest in Gilded Age New York, and have dipped my big toe into Joanna Shupe novels.
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