I'd really give this a 1.5 star rating but because Ella Kate was a cantankerous, old bitch who made me laugh, I'll swing up to 2.So this story is about a vapid, young lawyer who is framed for bribery and mishandling taxpayer money...I guess...and winds up in a two-stoplight town in the south, fix...
This is one of those easy read, relaxing chick-lit books that you read when you dont want something heavy. Its nice, its fluffy, and its oh so predictable. First of all, I hate the name Annajane. Something about it makes me cringe. Her and Mason are the only characters who really have a lot of ch...
It is amazing to me that I can read books that I think are very different, yet they end up similar. I was not aware that I was following up reading a book about renovating with another one! I like Mary Kay Andrews. Her female characters are fun, independent women, with real doubts about love. N...
I have to qualify, this is better than her other book that I read earlier this summer, but not as good as other books that might share this rating (from me). The characters were better drawn, foils were less obviously so. I don't like the wrap-it-up-in-heavily-expositional-epilogue thing (cheatin...
I liked this novel - it was very entertaining and fun to read. I liked the characters and thought they were believable as well as intriguing. The main character is Annajane and she is quite likable - I was hoping she would get her man back. Celia is easy to hate and she deserves Davis, who is Cel...
Best friends Weezie and BeBe are each planning big events - Weezie is getting married and BeBe is having a baby. When Weezie sees a picture of her fiance in the paper with a gorgeous woman on his arm, she gets a little worried - he's in New York training as a chef at a posh restaurant. BeBe tal...
This one did take me a little longer to get into, only because it seemed to jump from character to character and i just hadn't gotten to know them yet. And I also didn't like the way everyone seemed to try to guilt Ellis into staying at Nags Head instead of letting her put her career first, if th...
I’d read Savannah Breeze before picking up this book at the library. So I was already familiar with some of the characters, and it was fun to see them from a different angle.Newly divorced Weezie Foley is putting up with a lot. Her ex-husband is living in their townhouse with his new fiancé whi...
Never having read Mary Kay Andrews, I was not sure what to expect. The Overdrive synopsis from our library catalog says: “Keeley Murdock's wedding to A. J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiancé entangled with her maid of honor at the rehearsal...
Bebe Loudermilk is pretty overwhelmed between her grandmother being in the hospital and her grandfather needing help, her restaurant to run and her rental properties needing sudden repairs. But along comes Reddy, a man she meets at a charity dance, who seems to be the answer to her problems. Wh...
Little Bitty Lies is the Mary Kay Andrews book for Dateline fans, and a Dateline fan I am. While I certainly appreciated the somewhat divergent plot of Little Bitty Lies, as a Friday and Saturday night murder mystery obsessee, I couldn't fully immerse myself in this read due to sheer unbelievabil...
Post listen review: Not the best and not the worst of the lame romances that I have been forced to listen to. It's really hard to go through all the audiobooks in the library without getting a LOT of romance in there. Here is the plot such as it is. Two chefs are in competition to become the ...
“Mrs. Griggs? This is Sheriff Schumann. I was wondering if you’d have time to answer some questions for me.” It was barely 8 a.m. on Tuesday. Riley was sitting on the front porch at Shutters, sipping her coffee and watching a blue heron poking around at something in the front yard. It had rained ...
“Which idiot put these lights away last year?” I demanded. Only six shopping days left till the big day, and as always, I felt overwhelmed with stress and anxiety. The ceaseless jangle of the radio, playing an endless stream of hokey Christmas songs made my nerves raw, and...
Linda repeated. “Seems like I know that name. How long has he been on the force, C.W.?” “He’s no rookie,” C.W. said. “My guy said he’s been around for maybe seven or eight years. He used to work for the DeKalb Sheriff’s Office before he went with the city.” I took a sip of coffee. “So Ragan and h...
It was nearly eight o’clock. She was simultaneously sweaty, grubby, hungry, and tired, but she had work to do if she was going to comply with Bryce’s orders to move ahead with the demolition of the casino, pending approval of the demo permit. She grabbed her laptop and began firing off messages: ...
Since it was where Laurie-Beth and Payton would stand to say their vows she wanted to make sure an errant antler wouldn’t fall off and bonk the couple on the head. Concussions were never fun at a wedding. She’d arrived at the cotton warehouse late Saturday afternoon, already behind schedule. He w...
"Them's my mama's diamonds," she said, nodding for emphasis. "Bet you never seen nothing like that before, have you, Miss Julia Callahan Garrity?" "No ma'am," I said truthfully. "I never have, Miss Loudene." She dumped the jewelry on the battered Formica kitchen table. "Go ahead and look, girl," ...