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The Luxe by Anna Godbersen5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Needless to say, the ending paves the way for at least one sequel. ![]() The dialogue has its clunky moments, and the plot twist that drives the tale is telegraphed from the very start, but readers caught up in the fancy dress intrigue are unlikely to mind much: it’s all part of the dishy fun. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hook-ups. This tangled web includes not one but two sets of star-crossed lovers an upstairs/downstairs romance a scheming social climber a bitter servant girl and oodles of money, all set in a Edith Wharton via Hollywood vision of Old New York. In a world of luxury and deception, five teenagers lead dangerously scandalous lives. The narrative then travels back several weeks, tracing the relationships and events that have led to the somber assembly. The story opens in 1899 with the funeral of Elizabeth Holland, a well-bred beauty said to have plunged to her death in the Hudson River. ![]() On its back cover, this lavishly produced debut makes no secret of its twin influences. As an epigraph and an enthusiastic blurb from the creator of Gossip Girl ![]()
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