3.7 out of 4 stars.

Love, love, love this book. It takes place in New York City in 1938 featuring a minimum wage secretary named Katey Kontent, a mid-western free spirit named Evelyn Ross, and a waspy charismatic named Tinker Grey. The painted picture is that the three can do no wrong together until a car accident turns their worlds upside down. What unfolds next is a story that I could not get enough of.

The author, Amor Towles, is so thoughtful with each word put on every page that it seemed as though I was sitting right beside the characters in the book while their day to day lives unfolded. I saw myself walking down the streets of NYC and imagined perfectly what I would be wearing and I owe it to Towles’ skill of impeccable detail.

It has been a long time that I had this much trouble putting a book down and was able to get transported into an entire era as I was while reading this bestseller.

Please do yourself a favor and pick it up! The blessing and the curse is that it is not a series because I would love to learn more but feel as though it might ruin the high note I left on since it wrapped up perfectly at the end.

Postmark: Thank you to Erin Lesica for letting me borrow this book. I owe you one!