Genre: Fiction/ Chick-lit
Review: Leelee Satterfield sells her restaurant and inn in Vermont and returns to her home town in the south with her two little girls and divorced. Unfortunately, she leaves her heart in Vermont as she tries to make a new life in Tennessee. Her three best friends are incredibly meddlesome and lucky for Leelee that they are. As Leelee's life falls apart again they have to step in as the Gladys Kravitz Agency and help their friend find the second chance at love and life that she's been searching for.
This was such a refreshing story. I love, love, love Leelee's three friends and the way the four of them interact. The book was fun and it held my attention. My hubby gave me some strange looks when I would laugh out loud and when I tried to explain it to him... well, it just didn't make much sense out of context. :) It was a fun story though with many laugh out loud parts. There was some profanity in it. It mainly depended on the character so a few paragraphs would be heavy profanity and then there would be pages and pages of none. Overall, this was a very fun work.
This was the sequel to Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter but I followed along perfectly; there was enough backstory that I wasn't lost at all.
Author: Patton actually got the idea to write this series when she moved back to the south from Vermont and realized that it would make a good story. (Personally, I think she was right.) She works as a tour guide for Franklin on Foot in Franklin, Tennessee where the Battle of Franklin was waged. She is also the mother of two boys, Michael and Will, and a Havanese dog named Rosie. She manages to write in her "spare time". (As a mother myself, that spare time doesn't come easily so this is impressive to me.) She grew up in Memphis, TN and graduated from The University of Alabama.
Rating: **** Three Stars
This was a complimentary copy from the publisher through the Goodreads Advanced Readers Program given to me for my honest review.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Yankee Doodle Dixie by Lisa Patton
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2 comments:
This book does sound heartwarming. They always say write about what you know. I am not familiar with the breed of her dog and will have to Google it. (-;
Helpful review, thanks for posting.
This book looks good! Going in the ever growing to read pile!
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