Think Gossip Girl meets The Great Gatsby . This is the world of The Roaring: 1925 New York City . . . where alcohol is illegal and speakeasies are all the rage. Where glitz & glamour, murder & scandal, and love & heartbreak create a perfect cocktail of rather fascinating events. The Roaring follows the lives of six extra special, uber wealthy Manhattan adolescents, in which one of them, Roxy Elliott , conveniently happens to be the daughter of New York City's most powerful mafia family. The novel is filled with stories and events that our main characters are thrown into between the years of 1925 and 1926. The deeper you read into this roaring world, the darker the stories become.