The Book: Rumors, by Anna Godbersen
The Story: This is the sequel to The Luxe . If you haven’t read The Luxe and think that you might, skip this part, because I don’t want to ruin the first book for you.
Rumors picks up just a couple of months after the first book ended. The year is 1899, the setting is New York City. Everyone is still kind of in a tizzy over Elizabeth dying. Diana & Elizabeth’s mom has made her self sick with grief over her daughter and worry about money and is putting all that on Diana. Penelope and Lina are manipulative and crazy. Henry actually displays human emotion. And Elizabeth and Will are just about has happy as can be. Diana and Penelope are sort of fighting over Henry and more than one person gets involved in selling secrets. Newspapers are getting word that maybe something is amiss in the Holland household.
What I Thought: Honestly? I kind of thought this book was a piece of crap. It took me three days to read, and only because I couldn’t get into it at all. Nothing happened. I can deal with a lack of action if there is a reason. Say, character development. Nope. It was just a boring book with a “shocking” ending that was still pretty boring. I realize that this is a series, so some of the stuff is setup, but if you can’t keep me reading the second, why on earth would I read the third? I know that this series gets rave reviews, but I think I’m done.
One Comment
Wow, I’m really surprised to this review! I haven’t read the books yet (the first one is on my TBR, so I skipped the beginning of your post), but I’ve heard nothing but raves. I love it when I get to hear another opinion, though.