Of Glitter and Gold: A Canary Club PrequelSet during the flamboyant anything-goes era of 1920’s America, these three historical romance tales are filled with intriguing characters and rich imagery from the time period—with flappers, jazz music, gangsters, and lavish wealth. Escape to a different decade today with the compelling stories of the Canary Club. This novel can be read before or after … before or after The Canary Club.
Novelette 1- Gilded Cage
Masie, the flaxen-haired daughter of notorious bootlegger Dutch Schultz, returns home from boarding school to find her family in crisis. Her mother is dangerously unstable, her father’s empire is on the brink of ruin, and the boy she once loved has become a ruthless killer for hire. To keep her family’s dangerous secrets, Masie is forced into a lie that will change the course of her future—and leave her trapped in a gilded cage of her own making.
Novelette 2- All That Glitters
A dame with brains, moxie, and killer curves, June West isn’t your average flapper. She’s managed to endear herself to the son of one of the most powerful gangsters in New York, earning herself a spot in the limelight that she’s always longed for. With the infamous playboy at her side, June has become accustomed to living the high life. Lavish parties, expensive clothes, sparkling jewels—nothing is beyond her reach. But when her carefully woven web of lies finally catches up with her, she must make an impossible choice… come clean about her past and risk losing everything, or find a way to bury her demons—once and for all.
Novelette 3 – Nothing Gold
Dickey has been down on his luck since the day he was born. Flat broke and sick of being looked down on, he meets young socialite Lilly Rose at a wild party. The connection is like a strike of lightning. From a wealthy New York family, this debutante is everything he’s been told he can never have—and the only thing he wants. Determined to win her, he knows the only way to get her parents approval is with cold hard cash. So when a shot at the biggest score of his life comes around, he just can’t refuse…
Perfect for fans of Beatriz Williams’ A Certain Age or Libba Bray’s The Diviners, The Canary Club by Sherry D. Ficklin will entice Historical Romance fans of all ages. This Gatsby-era tale filled with dazzling speakeasies, vicious shoot-outs, gritty gangsters, and iridescent ingenues has also been compared to the television series Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING and BOARDWALK EMPIRE.
Novels inThe Canary Club Series by Sherry D. Ficklin:
- The Canary Club (Stand Alone)
- Glitter and Gold: A Canary Club Prequel
- Additional books following secondary characters coming soon.
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While the stories kept my interest, I wanted better editing and some reason for reading them. Are they the lead into a book/books?
The book was ok but not great. Don’t bother reading
Great prequel! It makes me want to buy all the books in the series! The characters are wonderfully written. You feel like you have known the family for years! Definitely recommend this book!
Scripted and mediocre.
Didn’t
Like it
For some reason part of the words of the book were cut off the pages after the beginning chapter. I wanted to read it but I couldn’t get all of the book on the pages. I tried different font sizes and other things but couldn’t get the pages to fit so I could read it. Not sure if it was the download or some other reason. I was using a Kindle Fire with the app to read but it didn’t set the pages correctly for some reason. If it gets fixed I would like to read and finish this story.
Dutch Schultz is a name known to those who follow the culture and history of the United States during a particularly perverted social experiment known as Prohibition. This boxed set of three novels tells the story of Masie, the daughter of Dutch Schultz, as she matures from a family member school-aged daughter to becoming a confederate in an enterprise she despises. It is not the morality of illegal alcohol sales that bothers her, it is how the violent trade changed family members. Masie despises her father, the prominent gangster. She is barely tolerant of the way her brother, JD, has become the willing assistant and second in command of her father. And she would like to have a much closer relationship with step-brother Vinny, the Dutch Schultz family enforcer. Adopted into the family at a young age, he is not truly a brother to Masie. And that suits Masie fine as she considers another role for him.
Glitter & Gold: A Canary Club Anthology by Sherry D. Ficklin might be a very interesting read but I will not be able to know that or write any type of a complete review. It consists of three novelettes: Gilded Cage, All That Glitters, and Nothing Gold. I read the first and was impressed. There is a taut writing style that presents clear and straightforward conflicts which logically would be resolved in some manner by the succeeding “chapters.” But that couldn’t happen because in All That Glitters the right margin of all pages is cut off so that I have to mentally recreate what words might have been written. In Nothing Gold, the problem does not appear. The problem cannot be fixed by changing font size or viewing options.
I was even willing to overlook a few horrible proofreading gaffes; I would have returned the work to my students and demanded revision in order to get a grade above failing.
I would ask for my money back from Amazon but this is a Kindle Unlimited selection so my only remedy is to return the book.
So, a one-star review for what is probably a good set of novelettes. As a reader, I should not have to write one-third of the offered selection.
@#$%^&*
Was NOT my favorite