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 Bright Young Things Review 
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 What can I say about BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS... 
 I guess I should start with the fact that it isn't horrible, per se. There just isn't any substance, nothing to keep you interested or nothing to make you really care. 
 It is, like Godbersen's other books, fluffy and light, holding no real purpose or moral of the story. It is unlike her other novels in the fact that these characters had no souls. Not literally, because this is historical fiction-not fantasy-but I mean soulless in the way they were one-dimensional, shallow husks of characters. I hated every single one of them, even the ones that weren't spoiled rich girls. I actually cared about the characters in THE LUXE, I wanted them to be happy and achieve their dreams. This this book I kind of wish one of them would die, like we are promised in the beginning: 
 "...One Will Be Married, One Will Be Famous, and One Will Be Dead." 
 Which, by the way, brings me to my point where this tells us how all the characters are going to end up so why read the series? It is literally written out for you on who's future is going to be whose so unless you are completely unable to put two and two together, this entire series is kind of a waste of time. 
 Maybe I had too high of hopes for this one because I liked her other novels and was really excited about the time period. Who doesn't love the twenties? But it failed miserably at trying to capture the essence of "The Jazz Age." Because even though it was 1929 and the times were "winding down" or whatever, there is so much potential here. 
 The prologue was my favorite part, it made me genuinely excited for the book: 
 "It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared." 
 Where is this book? I want to read this book! 
 So overall: terrible characters, squandered potential from the time period, predictable plot, but a fluffy read that somehow, some way, keeps you reading until the end.