Typically, this is a book that I would include with my monthly mini-reviews as it's the fourth book in a very popular series, but I just really felt I had to give it its own spotlight. You see, The Luxe series by Anna Godbersen is really my guilty pleasure in reading...but one that isn't so guilty that millions of others don't love the books as well. They have everything I typically do not care for in a book: excessive romance, gossip, catty women, and betrayal after betrayal. But...I love them. And I really loved Splendor.


Don't keep reading if you plan to read the other books in the series first!!!! Spoilers!!


So, Splendor picks up right where Envy left off and wraps up all of these wonderfully written characters and their lives quite nicely (though I'm so bummed the series is over). We are given the same main characters again: Elizabeth, Diana, Penelope, and Carolina, each with their own secrets, their own love lives, and their own deliciously described wardrobes.


Godbersen is incredibly talented in the way of drawing her reading into the lives of these characters and not letting them go until we have had the experience of being in late 19th century New York City. I am just in love with these books! And not just for the writing, but the covers look so pretty on my bookshelves. Those dresses! Sigh. To be able to wear just one of those for a day.


Anyone else loving this series and sad that it's ending?