Mary, Everything (The Flapper Covenant 01) by Cassandra Yorke was a wonderful surprise to read. It’s a time-travel with a twist (more parallel realities) and center stage are a group of young, capable women wielding a boatload of very interesting magic. The start felt a bit disorienting to me but after a few chapters I got what the author was trying to do and it began to flow. Evil men with horrible intentions a –plenty, but Courtney - with help of her newfound friends - comes into her power(s) ...

4.5⭐️ – Have you ever felt like the time you were born in wasn’t the one you were supposed to live in? Like you don’t fit in your own life? What if it were true?In 2004, Courtney is a twenty-year-old student working at her university’s archives. As part of the first real job she’s given, she has to read yearbooks from the 1920s and feels intensely attracted to that period, recognizing people in photographs when she shouldn’t know them, feeling more alone than ever when she has to let go.I’m once...

4.5/5 StarsI’d heard some really great things about his book before I picked it up, and the synopsis alone sounds absolutely fantastic, but nothing could have prepared me for what a fun, whirlwind of a ride this book was! Mary, Everything opens in 2004, and follows Courtney who is spending her Summer working in her university’s dusty archives. While out on her lunchbreak one day, she bumps into Sadie – who feels slightly out of place and is dressed in a seriously cool vintage outfit – and the tw...

This book is a wonderful experience of both life and love. Cassandra really captures the era…the 1920’s…. All of her characters are lively…fun…. smart…. and strong. Time travel has been used a plot many times before, but this author gives it an original twist. Not only does she create a parallel universe to the 1920’s but allows the character to become completely immersed and actually become a part of living as if she has been there all of her life. It’s a well-written story with a heroine you l...

W o w.It's raw, it's in your face, and it's so deeply personal. This book really goes for the gut.It's urgent and passionate right from the beginning. After the prologue, the author switches back over to 2004 as a kind of flashback. It might seem kind of jarring, because you've just started to get comfortable with her lovely picture of the 1920s, but eventually I realized I couldn't appreciate 1921 until I'd seen 2004. Courtney's "present" gets increasingly ominous and there's a hint of somethin...

The problem with finishing a ‘first in series’ is that you immediately want MORE! When I started the book there was an intentionally jarring back & forth, but the main characters were so intriguing you are carried along for the ride. Then things change and there are more characters and I could only hope that we would get back to the others ... and by halfway through you are tracking the detailed arcs of more than a half-dozen main characters and organizations and side-plots and minor charact...

This is without a doubt the best book I have ever read about extradimensional lesbian flapper sorceresses. The book is captivating. The first quarter or so sets a mood, and this mood intensifies and evolves as the story progresses. Deft action sequences are interspersed with teenage heartthrob drama, but somehow things never careen into the cheesy territory of Twilight and its ilk. The reader will note that there is no need for a male hero nor a male love interest, and indeed on a core level thi...

Like Django Wexler says, "Well, *I* obviously enjoyed it, or I wouldn't have written it. Hopefully other people will too." I really do enjoy reading it sometimes. I spent five years channeling a safe, cozy place, and sometimes it's nice to go back and visit when everything gets to be too much.

I do hope others will feel the same. :)

This novel is the Snake’s Suspenders!Cassandra Yorke draws us into the story on Page 1 and never lets us go. Her use of serial 1st person narration brings an immediacy to this fast-paced account of four college girls who have no understanding of their arcane powers until they are forced to use them in order to survive. And while we obsessively turn pages (or scroll), we are lured into each character's thoughts, dreams, disappointments, and fears, often revealed with a rich irony and humor. Ms. Y...

Wonderful story with intelligent characters. Beautiful descriptions. Poetically written. One of my favorite new authors. Definitely a must read!I lost so many hours of sleep to this book, but I can't remember the last time I gave up so many hours so willingly. Even when I was screamed awake before 9 AM by a hungry toddler, I never regretted those late night hours spent in Autumn Grove with four of the best friends I've ever had.Cassandra had me from the start, and even if I'd wanted to resist, I...