I love that Wild Women and the Blues is historical fiction that's not about World War II, and even more so that's about the Roaring Twenties, which is a time period I particularly enjoy reading about. I love that it's told from the Black perspective in Chicago during Capone's bloody reign. I love that Honoree is a badass woman that, despite her circumstances, pursues her dreams and doesn't let men, money or the color of her skin stop her from doing what she wants to do. I do really wish that the book had been more about her having a career as a dancer, and exploring the jazz and music of the era. But not long into the book it definitely veers more into mobsters and betting and the fallout that comes to Honoree, her friends and the other people in her orbit. This also starts to get convoluted as things do when mobsters are involved - double-crossing and killing each other. And while it's all interconnected, I wish the book had focused solely on Honoree's story instead of a dual timeline with Sawyer in 2005. This part doesn't really bring that much to the story for me and almost takes away from an exciting whirlwind time of 1925/1926 in Chicago by both weaving in elements to connect the stories together and going back and forth between the two time periods themselves.