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Summary: Sometimes Love is Better the Second Time Around
Review: This is a story about divorce and revenge and really super antiques. Eloise "Weezie" Foley is an antiques picker who has to deal with a large estate sale, eccentric relatives, a hot ex-boyfriend, her ex-husband and his new girlfriend, who is living in a house that Weezie herself restored. As you can see there is a whole lot going on in this book that just goes to show you that love is sometimes better the second time around. I love this book and if you've got half a heart, you will too.
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Summary: A WONDERFUL, FUN READ!
Review: This story had everything -- first, it took place in the South, a great place to be. The heroine, Eloise "Weezie" Foley, is a hoot. Then there's her mother's alcoholism and her uncle, a resigned priest who is just coming out of the closet. There's Weezie's jerk ex-husband Ty and his man-eating fiancee. Quite a bit about antiques. We can't forget her new/old hunky boyfriend Daniel. Oh yes, and a dead body and a mystery. It doesn't get any better than this. I love the author's style. There are so many funny lines in this book, it kept me laughing. I wish the author would write a sequel. I would rush to the computer to buy another book about Weezie!
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Summary: Delightful characters
Review: Weezie and Caroline go head to head over a crumbling plantation house. Caroline has big plans to bulldoze the historic building and put up a paper mill. Weezie wants to save the house as a historic landmark--and get her hands on the fabulous, valuable antiques within. One cupboard in particular has caught her eye. If she can score it, she'll make enough profit to open her shop.But Weezie's overzealous interest in the house and an upcoming sale of the contents lands her squarely in the middle of a murder investigation--with the murder weapon in her possession. And in the middle of everything, she's trying to deal with a mother whose drinking problem has hit a crisis point, as well as a formerly-nerdy-boyfriend-turned-hunk who still has the hots for her. This book was so much fun to read. It's been a long time since I could cheer for a heroine as endearing as Weezie. The characters were sharply drawn and so true to live, even as they were exaggerated. Weezie's best friend, Bebe Loudermilk, is a delight, and her uncle, an ex-priest-turned-lawyer coming to terms with his homosexuality, is a wonderful character. Much of the book is told from his point of view, in third person, while the rest is first person from Weezie's viewpoint. It's an odd set-up, but it works. If there was any fault to find in this book, it was that the author went a little gentle with the heroine. Yes, Weezie got herself into terrible fixes, but there were times when she wiggled off the hook a bit too easily. (For example, though she was initially suspected of murder, no one really thought she did it and she was never charged.) Also, the solution to the mystery was less than satisfying. I can't say more than that without giving something away. Still, the book was so thoroughly readable, so engaging, that I didn't really care about the mystery all that much. I just wanted to keep spending time with those delightful characters.
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