Katie King
Written on Jan 4, 2016
Does anyone else get a bad feeling about Mr Cairns? Poor Elizabeth.
Ugh Lina...now I know she won't be going away any time soon.
Onto Splendor!
Two months have passed since the dramatic homecoming of Elizabeth Holland - Manhattan society eagerly awaits her return. But Elizabeth won't rejoin her sister Diana's side. The whispers are beginning - is all as it seems behind closed doors?
Uptown, Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker are the city's most celebrated couple. But despite the glittering diamond she wears, the newlyweds share little more than scorn for each other.
Manhattan's most envied residents appear to have everything they desire: wealth, beauty, happiness.
However, in a city where appearance is everything, sometimes the most practiced smiles hide the most scandalous secrets. . . .
- ISBN10 0061345725
- ISBN13 9780061345722
- Publish Date 27 January 2009
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English
Reviews
Does anyone else get a bad feeling about Mr Cairns? Poor Elizabeth.
Ugh Lina...now I know she won't be going away any time soon.
Onto Splendor!
jesstheaudiobookworm
Written on Jan 1, 2015
Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews
Written on Jul 5, 2011
Truthfully, this book pissed me off. I've never been "and they lived happily ever after" reader, in fact I prefer they don't as it can sometimes be too cutesy. In Envy, evil triumphs over good and it annoyed me that the two main characters I love to hate, Penelope and Carolina somehow always manage to fall on their feet. Penelope wins the guy, as read in Rumors, true she acquires a proposal through blackmail and is in a loveless marriage but that is besides the point. As for Carolina, her sugar daddy dies and is left a vast fortune making her the "high society" she has always wished. Personally, I would have preferred if she lost everything and had to sleep in the gutter. (one can wish can't they?)
The Hollands have their ups and downs and usually land on their butt rather than feet. Despite, Henry being a married man he still plays with Diana's affections and I'm starting to think he's a bit of a dog. Elizabeth has yet to make an appearance outside the home since her miraculous return and is starting to cause gossip, coming out on a trip to Florida only for her sister's sake.
It is in Florida where horns come out. Penelope goes back to her skimming ways, this time pulling her brother into the act and Carolina continues her deceptive fictional past to win the heart of a wealthy bachelor who seconds Henry's eligibility. Both Holland girls sit on the train to a hellish vacation seemingly oblivious to the devils surrounding them but catch on to more than they show.
Emotions run high on Envy and is a continuation to the highly addictive "The Luxe" series. Just because most of the characters are despicable doesn't mean I toss it in the fire with the disgust, no no I devour it like Snow White's apple.
rakesandrogues
Written on May 31, 2010
Furthermore, I just get even more frustrated with the Diana/Henry pairing. It's really agonizing to read about.
I hated that most of this book was not set in Manhattan but I guess I can forgive that. I was curious to see how people did the beach back then.
I feel like I was annoyed the whole time I was reading this book, but I did read it straight through. I gave it a three but it's probably a 2.5. I just want closure so I will read the last one.