Love the cover

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I'm a big fan of historical YA as a genre. That being said, I wasn't a big fan of this book. It was heartbreakingly slow-- to the point that nothing really happened. I may like historical, but I like a little mystery or intrigue. This didn't deliver on that front.

There was a mystery, but I found it trivial. The hints weren't very well done, because I figured out the mystery long before it was time. I'm not a huge fan of that, but in a world where everything has happened before, I feel like it's a given. I don't have to like it, but I understand it.

I don't, however, understand writing in the third person. It took me a long time to figure out what was bothering me about the writing, but when I did it was like I noticed it everywhere. Suddenly it just hit me like a ton of bricks. We have a main character, but the story is never told from her point of view. While it's interesting, it mostly served to confuse me.

Just like the characters. I was confused by the characters, who remained flat until the end of the book, when I realized that it's not necessarily that they're flat, it's mostly that they're dull.

All in all, Debutantes just wasn't for me. I found the characters to be dull and the story boring. I wish that I had liked this more. ( )

I really wanted to love this book. I mean, who wouldn't with such a gorgeous cover? I just.. Couldn't get into the book at all. The life-changing surprise wasn't actually much of a surprise, and it could easily be guessed about 1/4 of the way through the book, and I didn't particularly like any of the sisters. I didn't DISLIKE them exactly, but I wouldn't have cared much if something happened to one of them. Basically, the thing that annoyed me most was Violet. Violet is incredibly focused on marrying money so she and her sisters can have a better life, but it becomes apparent fairly early in the book that she's really only concerned about herself. After they throw her the coming out ball, a wealthy guy proposes to her and she just says she'll think about it. Not only is she basically throwing the effort of her sisters back in their faces, but she was basically being offered the life she was longing for on a silver platter, and she turns it down stating that she couldn't see herself liking him years from now. That's completely understandable, it is. But why couldn't she have said that weeks before so they wouldn't have wasted their time throwing her the ball that SHE wanted so that SHE could find a wealthy husband? She treats her sisters horribly half the time, even though they're doing nothing but helping her get what she wants. I just never got into the book. I'm not saying it was awful, it just wasn't the book for me. ( )

I really wanted to love this book. I mean, who wouldn't with such a gorgeous cover? I just.. Couldn't get into the book at all. The life-changing surprise wasn't actually much of a surprise, and it could easily be guessed about 1/4 of the way through the book, and I didn't particularly like any of the sisters. I didn't DISLIKE them exactly, but I wouldn't have cared much if something happened to one of them. Basically, the thing that annoyed me most was Violet. Violet is incredibly focused on marrying money so she and her sisters can have a better life, but it becomes apparent fairly early in the book that she's really only concerned about herself. After they throw her the coming out ball, a wealthy guy proposes to her and she just says she'll think about it. Not only is she basically throwing the effort of her sisters back in their faces, but she was basically being offered the life she was longing for on a silver platter, and she turns it down stating that she couldn't see herself liking him years from now. That's completely understandable, it is. But why couldn't she have said that weeks before so they wouldn't have wasted their time throwing her the ball that SHE wanted so that SHE could find a wealthy husband? She treats her sisters horribly half the time, even though they're doing nothing but helping her get what she wants. I just never got into the book. I'm not saying it was awful, it just wasn't the book for me. ( )

I really wanted to love this book. I mean, who wouldn't with such a gorgeous cover? I just.. Couldn't get into the book at all. The life-changing surprise wasn't actually much of a surprise, and it could easily be guessed about 1/4 of the way through the book, and I didn't particularly like any of the sisters. I didn't DISLIKE them exactly, but I wouldn't have cared much if something happened to one of them. Basically, the thing that annoyed me most was Violet. Violet is incredibly focused on marrying money so she and her sisters can have a better life, but it becomes apparent fairly early in the book that she's really only concerned about herself. After they throw her the coming out ball, a wealthy guy proposes to her and she just says she'll think about it. Not only is she basically throwing the effort of her sisters back in their faces, but she was basically being offered the life she was longing for on a silver platter, and she turns it down stating that she couldn't see herself liking him years from now. That's completely understandable, it is. But why couldn't she have said that weeks before so they wouldn't have wasted their time throwing her the ball that SHE wanted so that SHE could find a wealthy husband? She treats her sisters horribly half the time, even though they're doing nothing but helping her get what she wants. I just never got into the book. I'm not saying it was awful, it just wasn't the book for me. ( )