Waiting on Wednesday: Ingenue

Title: Ingenue
Author: Jillian Larkin
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 351
Release Date: August 9, 2011

Bobbed hair. Short skirts. Cool jazz. Dark speakeasy. Anything goes. Meet the flappers, Gloria, Clara, Lorraine . . . and the rich young boys who love and loathe them.—Goodreads


The first book in The Flappers series, Vixen, was one of the first books I reviewed on this here bloggy blog, so it sort of holds a special place for me. But other than that, I actually found myself thinking about Gloria, Clara, and Lorraine the other day and suddenly desperately wanted to know what was happening with them! 


Lucky for me, Ingenue, comes out next month! (I'm so glad it's not next year like everything else seems to be!) I'm so so excited to go back into their oh-so glitzy and not-always-so-glamorous 1920s world. And to spend a little more time with one Marcus Eastwood. *grins*


Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  

Review: Vixen

Title: Vixen
Author: Jillian Larkin
Genre: YA, Historical Fiction
Page Count: 421
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

This book is absolutely addictive. Larkin's sultry, tawdry, beautifully detailed 1920s Chicago drew me in immediately, and made me wish that I could be right there with Gloria, Clara, and Lorraine, witnessing the glory days of speakeasies and feeling the dangerous thrill of mingling with gangsters, musicians, and flappers.

Each chapter alternates between Gloria, Clara, and Lorraine, who all have very different motivations, but, in a way, the same goal--they all feel trapped in their lives and what to be something more they who they appear to be--they want to be who they really are.

Book Trailer I Love: Vixen

While watching Pretty Little Liars with my roommate the other night, we saw the book trailer for Jillian Larkin's Vixen.

Up until then, I'd never really paid much attention to book trailers. I thought they were, well, a little silly. (I know, I know. Say it ain't so! But it's true, I did.) But this book trailer is gorgeous, well-lit, sexy, dramatic, and, though it mostly just teases you with promises of Chicago and 1920s and fishnets and guns and booze, it was all I needed to see to know that this is a book I want to read.

Check out the trailer below:

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Tell me your thoughts on Vixen, and let me know which book trailers you love in comments!