Series: New York Rebel Girls, #1
Traits & Tropes: class difference
Genre/Setting: Historical; NYC, USA, 1904
Publication Date: 10.03.19
Rating: 5 stars
Sarah Fischer has been in factories since her father pulled her out of school at age 13 to help support her family. Now it's just her and her younger sister, Zelda, and Sarah is determined her sister will never face the exploitation she's known all her life. Sarah and her friend Julia to establish a women's labor union and start a strike among female shirtwaist factory workers to try to foment some real change.
Attorney Clifton Stokes works as chief of staff to the mayor of New York City and has a budding political career himself. He just has to make sure not to anger Tammany Hall and stick to projects he can actually finish. He has no business getting involved in labor movements and even less with their Jewish organizer and yet he finds it impossible to stay away from Sarah.
Despite their mutual attraction, Sarah is fully devoted to her cause and has no time for distractions, but when Tammany Hall learns of Cliff's connection to Sarah, they present him with an ultimatum: convince Sarah to end the strike or say goodbye to his future political aspirations and watch Sarah be made to suffer for her cause. Cliff and Sarah must rapidly determine where their priorities lie and just what they're willing to sacrifice to advance them.
This book is a stunning debut. It was well-written and evoked a time period I don't typically read in historicals and I found it very refreshing. This one sucked me in from the start Sarah's fight started to feel like my own. Sarah and Cliff had incredible chemistry and it was great to see them figure out how to make their relationship work when coming from totally opposite backgrounds. These two were both very flawed characters who showed lots of development and change and that made them so real and relatable, even when I grew frustrated with them. Also, I must say Cliff was a lovely hero charmed me right along with Sarah. The pacing was maybe a bit slow around the halfway point of the book, but it picked right back up and kept me engaged. I also found myself charmed by the secondary characters, especially Danny and Julia and I'm hoping this series will continue and we'll get to read more from them. I'll certainly be following it and this author; she's definitely one to watch out for and I'd highly recommend this lovely debut.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book and later purchased my own. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Attorney Clifton Stokes works as chief of staff to the mayor of New York City and has a budding political career himself. He just has to make sure not to anger Tammany Hall and stick to projects he can actually finish. He has no business getting involved in labor movements and even less with their Jewish organizer and yet he finds it impossible to stay away from Sarah.
Despite their mutual attraction, Sarah is fully devoted to her cause and has no time for distractions, but when Tammany Hall learns of Cliff's connection to Sarah, they present him with an ultimatum: convince Sarah to end the strike or say goodbye to his future political aspirations and watch Sarah be made to suffer for her cause. Cliff and Sarah must rapidly determine where their priorities lie and just what they're willing to sacrifice to advance them.
This book is a stunning debut. It was well-written and evoked a time period I don't typically read in historicals and I found it very refreshing. This one sucked me in from the start Sarah's fight started to feel like my own. Sarah and Cliff had incredible chemistry and it was great to see them figure out how to make their relationship work when coming from totally opposite backgrounds. These two were both very flawed characters who showed lots of development and change and that made them so real and relatable, even when I grew frustrated with them. Also, I must say Cliff was a lovely hero charmed me right along with Sarah. The pacing was maybe a bit slow around the halfway point of the book, but it picked right back up and kept me engaged. I also found myself charmed by the secondary characters, especially Danny and Julia and I'm hoping this series will continue and we'll get to read more from them. I'll certainly be following it and this author; she's definitely one to watch out for and I'd highly recommend this lovely debut.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book and later purchased my own. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6VaXFmgabf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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