Very interesting book about the sacrifices you have to make to become great at something. Interesting characters and brilliant insights. It wasn't always easy to root for the main character, but I enjoyed the story overall.

This is actually a very interesting book. It takes us through the character growth and determination of Mildred Gower(the main character) to be and become more just another beautiful girl. This book is set in the early 1900's, a time when there were very few careers open to women other than as servants and prostitutes.

David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition. After completing his education, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving on to New York City where he was employed as a reporter for The Sun from 1890 to 1893, then columnist and editor with the New York World until 1902. David Graham Philips is known for producing one of the most important investigations exposing details of the corruption by big businesses of the Senate, in particular, by the Standard Oil Company. He was among a few other writers during that time that helped prompt President Theodore Roosevelt to use the term “Muckrakers”.