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Chargement... Lady Be Good: A Novel (édition 2018)par Amber Brock (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Light and fun are the words that come to mind for describing this book. The main character is a spoiled rich girl in 1950s New York City - so rich she convinces her father she to send her to Miami and then Havana for a little shopping, among other pursuits - and who is yet entirely focused on her place in the social pecking order. As she schemes to ensure she marries the right man, she manages to hurt her best friend and ruin her chances with the one man who has ever challenged her. Thankfully, one of the things this heroine is awakened to in the course of the novel is the unfortunate plight of others. Otherwise, this novel makes for light, easy, fun reading and I enjoyed the character evolution (even if it was predictable) and the atmosphere of the 1950s in New York, Miami, and Havana. ( ) I have to give this book 2.5 stars. In the beginning I liked it and then started to get bored about half way through. Kitty was one devious woman; only wanting what her friend Hen (Henrietta) had - her boyfriend for status and money and ploys to get him. Her father owned hotels and she do anything it seems from the beginning of the book. She goes to Miami with Hen and her father's business partner Andre, who her father expects her to marry and two of the band member's in her father's club in the hotel. She falls in love with Max, who is Cuban and is friends with another band member Sebastian. It ends well but not before she and Hen have a falling out (of course). It’s the 1950’s, Kitty’s family is among the newly rich. She’s 25 and her dad thinks it’s time for her to get more serious about life. He insists she gets to know his employee Andre. He thinks Andre would be a great husband for Kitty. He sets an ultimatum. She should marry Andre or get a real job at his company. He owns a hotel chain and he says that Kitty needs to start at the very bottom by cleaning toilets. He comes off as pretty intimidating at the beginning of this book and Kitty as pretty flighty. She feels like she can’t make a good match because she’s new money. But what she most wants is to marry someone from old money so she can establish herself as important. She doesn’t think her dad understands how hard this is for her. Kitty’s best friend is old money. Her friend Hen is engaged to a man that Kitty can’t stand. She decides to break them up and marry him herself. When her and Hen, along with Andre, go to Miami she decides to start her plan. She plants seeds of doubt in Hen’s boyfriend’s head. She encourages Hen to pursue one of the musicians they are traveling with. But soon Kitty finds herself actually falling for the musician Max. He’s not at all what she expected. This little snag could totally change her plan. At the beginning of the book, I found it hard to get into. Kitty seemed a bit childish and selfish in the beginning. But I did appreciate seeing her mature as the book went on. I really enjoyed this book, so much so that I read it in one sitting. Something about it sucked me in and made me keep reading to see how it would all turn out. Kitty is a master manipulator, and probably should have been an unlikable protagonist, but somehow I just had to root for her. I enjoyed seeing her perspective grow and change throughout the story. Though this is really a light read, it does address issues of class and race in the 1950s. At its heart there's a great message about standing up for what's right. Overall this was a fun, light read and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who likes historical fiction. Thanks to First to Read for the advance copy. Lady be Good by Amber Brock is a journey of self-discovery and almost a coming of age story for Kitty Tessler. Her journey, however, comes in the context of a romance. The romance plots in many ways takes over. The statement about themes of equality and prejudice is still made but in the context of the romance, making both less impactful. The end result is a simpler summer beach read, as the cover suggests. Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2018/10/lady-be-good.html Reviewed for Penguin First to Read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock's mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana. Kitty Tessler is the winsome and clever only child of self-made hotel and nightclub tycoon Nicolas Tessler. Kitty may not have the same pedigree as the tennis club set she admires, but she still sees herself as every inch the socialite--spending her days perfecting her "look" and her nights charming all the blue-blooded boys who frequent her father's clubs. It seems like the fun will never end until Kitty's father issues a terrible ultimatum: she may no longer date the idle rich. Instead, Kitty must marry Andre, her father's second-in-command, and take her place as the First Lady of his hotel empire. Kitty is forced to come up with a wily and elaborate plan to protect her own lofty ideas for the future, as well as to save her best friend, Henrietta Bancroft, from a doomed engagement; Kitty will steal Henrietta's fiancé, a fabulously wealthy but terribly unkind man from a powerful family--thereby delivering the one-two punch of securing her now-fragile place on the social ladder and keeping her friend from a miserable marriage. Then Kitty meets Max, a member of a band visiting New York from her father's Miami club, and her plans take a turn. Smitten, but still eager to convince her father of her commitment to Andre, Kitty and Hen follow Max, Andre, and the rest of the band back down to Miami--and later to Cuba. As Kitty spends more time with Max, she begins waking up to the beauty--and the injustice--of the world beyond her small, privileged corner of Manhattan. And when her well-intended yet manipulative efforts backfire, Kitty is forced to reconsider her choices and her future before she loses everyone she loves. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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