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!