Deadly Little Scandals (Debutantes #2)

Another Jenifer Lynn Barnes book for y'all: "Deadly Little Scandals" (sequel to "Little White Lies").

[""Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League-by way of Skull and Bones?"

Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called the White Gloves, Sawyer soon discovers that someone in the group's ranks may have the answers she's looking for. Things are looking up... until Sawyer and the White Gloves make a disturbing discover near the family's summer home--and uncover a twisted secret, decades in the making.

No one is quite who they seem to be. "]

My coworker recommended this book duo to me after she finished reading #TheInheritanceGames series (new series, same author).

I went into this one (book two) wanting to know "what the fuck is happening" ... it took a while for me to figure it out. And even when I thought I knew "what the fuck is happening" ... I was wrong. Soooooooo fucking wrong.

And then, when you have a theory (or six), you're still wrong. About all six theories. About every theory. Until there's a couple of girls in a hole (not a spoiler--its in the prologue) and a gun and a couple of near-impossible secrets. Because hooooooollllllllly fuuuuuuuuuuck those secrets (they're big and complex and I'm still not sure I fully understand everything)

The first book had a quick, one-page "present" section every couple of chapters, followed by several "previously on..." chapters. Both combined to create dual cliff-hangers that made taking a break really hard (and going to sleep at night--who needs sleep when a book can keep you warm at night, and awake at work the next day). THIS book had a quick, one-page "present" section, a handful of "previously on..." chapters, annnnnnnd several "two and a half decades ago" one-page chapters, all mingled and mixed in there making the secrets even more deadly and even more cliff-hanger-y (which, okay, that was a really, really good joke, if you read this book, you know what I mean).

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