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Summary: Where was the editor?
Review: Why, oh why did Ms. Frank's editor let this book go out with the first 250 pages as they are? This would be a great book if you start at page 250 and get someone to tell you briefly what is in the first part. More people in the South will sympathize with Fannie Mae than with stuck-up Caroline. Siddion's had the right formula with classy-girl-from-poor-family. This looks like no-class family does a sudden and unbelievable turn-around.
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Summary: Ice tea, mint juleps, and southern sass
Review: With her second book about the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Dorothea Benton Frank showcases her flair for describing Southern styles, recipes and family traditions. Whether fact or stereotype, her depictions of Lowcountry life teem with hilarity and exquisite scenes from nature. The river Edisto comes to life in all her majesty under DBF's pen. Her characters are well-formed, truly interesting and captivate the reader from page one. I didn't think she could outdo Sullivan's Island, but apparently DBF proved this reader wrong.'Plantation' revolves around the Wimbley family of Tall Pines Plantation and its mistress, Miss Lavinia. When her daughter Caroline moves home to Tall Pines after leaving her husband, Miss Lavinia is thrilled. Caroline must readjust to Lowcountry life after living the last fifteen years in New York and urge her son, Eric, to get to know the family. Interesting is an understatement when it comes to this family! From Caroline's hard-drinking, fishing-crazed brother, Trip, to Millie, the pseudo estate manager and resident hocus-pocus expert, DBF is an unending well of characters full of vitality and Southern sass. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys witty prose, and especially anyone who grew up with a southern mother. Keep 'em coming, Dorothea, yanh?
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Summary: worth the wait !!!!
Review: WOW!!! What a great book! Ms. Frank made us wait for her wonderful story of a crazy southern family but it was worth every minute of it!!! I just didn't believe there could be another exciting story to tell after Sullivan's Island, but Plantation is terrific!!!From the very first page to the last word, it was truly the a most entertaining story that does not follow the typical plot of so many novels-thank you Ms. Frank for the spicy twist! I loved each and every character and felt a part of that crazy family. (A Southern thing). Reading this book is like taking a wonderful summer vacation!!!I reccommend Plantation to everyone that needs a little summer fun...
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