The Davenports

Pretty typical historical romance, with etiquette and wealth and lineage concerns. The setting makes it interesting. Jim Crow laws blanket the south and threaten to move into Chicago. The parents generation and older includes former slaves. Two characters are half white. It all adds weight to a story that would be middling if set in Regency or Victorian times.

2.5 rounded up. The stories had too many parallels where I felt I was reading the same story just from a different POV. I wish this had a bit more differences in each story. I also was not rooting for each love story and wanted more of these girls being built up on their own. I'll be interested to see where the next book goes but not fully sure I'll read it.