So I saw the synopsis for this book, and already it gave me rich black people in a Downton Abbey type situation. I mean, come on, that sounds amazing! And from the outset, it sounded interesting enough, and it started really well with the introduction of the characters. You have Olivia, who's expected to do right by her parents and find a match in High Society. You have Helen, Olivia's younger sister, whose goal isn't so much to marry into money, but be a mechanic and help her brother out in the ever growing automobile industry. You have Amy Rose, the Davenport maid, who is saving up enough money to try to buy her own business. And then you have Ruby, Olivia's friend, who is struggling to secure a match in order to gain financial security and high social standing.

Now normally I like multiple POVs, and I've read books with more than four. However, usually those characters fit together as pieces of the overall picture, and often they are headed towards the same overarching plot. This book felt discordant because each of the characters were veering off into completely different directions, and I felt a bit of whiplash every time we switched from one perspective to the next.

I think this would have been more interesting if there were less characters to focus on. While I liked Ruby just fine, her character could probably have been taken off the board and the story could have been more cohesive. The book is largely about the Davenport family, and Ruby often sits outside of that purview. Yes, she is a representation of an aristocratic black girl whose parents are struggling to make ends meet, but that could have been easily a problem Helen could tackle, because she's practically on her way to get disowned. And frankly, her subplot was pretty good.

Favorite perspective was Olivia, but ya know, I have a soft spot for Society girl falling in with the revolution, to become a burgeoning revolutionary herself. 

Will I read the next book? That's still up in the air.