While I throughly enjoyed this look into the lives of four famous women of the Algonquin Round Table, it wasn’t my favorite of Paul’s books. Perhaps it was the narration split into 4 perspectives, but I felt perpetually in suspense for the other shoe to drop. And while plenty of dramatic events happened, I never truly felt like a climax of the story was reached leaving the ending feeling somewhat unfulfilling. Nonetheless, I didn’t know much about the Gonk crowd and throughly enjoyed their wit and wry humor— though I know that Dottie would have found me to be a tedious bore!