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Check out my review of Ruin Me, here Why do you think Street Art is starting to become more popular?   I think street art is becoming more popular because social media is making it more accessible. People can photograph and share it, and so finding art on your local streets   has become a communal sport of sorts. In the bigger picture of the art world, as the super-rich control the art world, artists are trying to take it back As the New York Daily News recently reported (after a Jeff Koonz Balloon Dog statue sold for $58.4 million at auction) “ As the .00001 percent run out of mansions to buy, they’ve poured their wealth into art. And not art many would find, well, good.” Street art subverts the whole gallery/auction/big money system. It’s the self-publishing of the art world.   What makes Street Art intriguing?   It’s lawless. It’s usually saying something provocative about the world we live in. It’s completely democratic – you don’t nee...

Synopsis: She lives in a world of beauty. His life is shrouded in darkness. When they meet, she must choose between everything she has and the one thing she has always desired. Lulu Sterling thinks she has it all figured out: with one more year left at NYU, she’s spending her summer interning at her mother’s iconic art gallery, determined to overcome the long shadow of her father’s suicide and prove herself to her critical mother. With her boyfriend, rising artist Brandt Penn, Lulu also hopes she will finally experience the love and desire that have always eluded her. But passion comes where she least expects it in the form of a brilliant, reclusive street artist known only by the tag GoST, and Lulu must decide how much she is willing to risk – and how far she is willing to go -- to claim it. My Review Lulu Sterling is finishing college. She is volunteering at her mom's upscale art gallery. Her boyfriend, is an artist. His name is Brandt Penn. However Lu...

Charlotte and William are about to have a new house guest. William’s sister, Mae. Unfortunately, Mae is a wild child and William does not like this. He tasks his wife, Charlotte into watching Mae. It is not long before Charlotte is intrigued by Mae and her short dresses and red lipstick. After Charlotte catches Mae sneaking out a few times to see her girlfriend, Fiona; Charlotte jumps into Mae’s world with both feet. It is in this world that Charlotte meets Jake. Jake is a bartender at a underground club. I have not read anything from Jamie Brenner or under her pen name Logan Belle. Jamie made me really fall in love with the Victorian era with The Gin Lovers. I flew through this book. This was a good thing as this book is really a combination of books 1 through 6. The characters and the story came alive. It was like I was transported back in time and could taste the alcohol that was being poured, hear the music that was playing, and felt adventurous with the short dress and r...