Vintage and Vogue by Kelly Fireside

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I was really digging this book until a few things combined to make it a less than stellar experience.

First the good. Lots of great humor. There are some fantastic lines in this book. There are also some funny and interesting characters. Vintage and Vogue definitely feels like the set up for a longer series based in Owen Station.

Now the less than good – some of which overlaps with the good stuff. The funny and interesting characters: there are too many of them to do any of them justice. And it took page time away from Hazel and Sena which they could have used. This book spent a lot of time and attention on things that didn’t seem to really matter. The whole prologue and ghost thing didn’t really add to the story for me. It was like a hint of something really cool that could have been interesting but fizzled out into pretty much nothing.

And the bad guy? There was no resolution there at all. I won’t go into it more because I don’t want to spoil anything but what a disappointment that was.

The biggest contributor to me wanting to quit reading and struggling to keep going was the “life changing orgasm.” Sex is great and it’s important but an orgasm, no matter how good, will not change your personality.

If you’re looking for a light read where reality and character depth don’t really matter, this could be fun for you. There really is some good humor in there. And maybe now that the authors have gotten the foundation of the new make up of the town set, we’ll get stories with more depth.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this one.



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