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Summary: Excellent read!
Review: I grew up in the Savannah so I could relate to all of the places she talked about in this book. It is a hilarious book and a very quick read. If you are looking for lighthearted and funny - this is the book! An Excellent summer read!
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Summary: Savannah Snooze
Review: I can't believe so many people actually liked this book. After about 50 pages I couldn't stand all the errors. Who edited this book? I want to send it back to the publisher and demand my money back! This book had me so frustrated that after a while I couldn't concentrate on anything but the errors and really didn't care what happened to the two dementional, unbelievable characters. The premise of the book was good - it could have been a great read if someone else had written it.
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Summary: my new favorite book
Review: If you love southern lit, savannah culture and great witty dialog you'll love this book. I didn't realize it was considered a mystery book until read more info about the book after I was done reading it. It is an easy fast read. I can't wait for her next book to come out and may check out her other books under her real name.
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Summary: Boring
Review: The characters in this book were made out to be nothing more than dumb broads as the old saying goes. I was disappointed to the highest.
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Summary: What a juicy read!
Review: This book had me hooked from page one to the last page ~~ it's witty, quick and brash and at the same time, it is bittersweet. It's a wonderful Southern lit book ~~ and it's one of my favorites. This is the first time I have ever heard of Mary Kay Andrews and I am hooked. Weezie Foley lands in the midst of a murder-scandal accidentally while looking for a bathroom at an estate sale ~~ and how she gets out of it is a hilarious tale in itself. Then revelations about family members, ex-husband, new boyfriend and friends spice up the entire book with their tales ~~ this book keeps you on its toes and never lets up till the last page is turned! If you like mystery with a good dash of romance ~~ this book is for you. Not only is it fun ~~ it is hilarious in some places ~~ these Southerners have a great sarcasm and it shows. Nothing seems to stop them except extreme humidity ~~ and an icy gin and tonic can cure that. So grab that bottle of suntan lotion and head for the lake or the nearest shade and enjoy! Don't forget your iced tea ~~ this book will leave you with a hankering for a drink! 4-25-03
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Summary: a romance that's not brain dead
Review: I loved this book. The most popular romances, I find, are nothing but a lot of filler between sex scenes. This book has real characters and plot, with romance seeming natural and not overly central to the story. It did not seem like the author wrote it into a fill in the blank mold, and I really liked weezie and would like to meet her again. very very good.
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Summary: The Picker, The Chef, and The Junior League
Review: Edgar Best Novel nominee, Mary Kay Andrews (aka Kathy Hogan Trocheck) delivers the goods in this lighthearted novel of tidy murder, great cooking, and the down and dirty side of the antique business. Not only is "Savannah Blues" living breathing, Savannah, it's a given this story could happen nowhere else. Our heroine, Weezie, wins the prize for most unusual occupation; she is a picker, a trade only known in the antique business. She "finds" items from kitsch to Empire sideboards and sells them to antique dealers. She hits the flea markets, yard and estate sales, and even does a little dumpster diving in the course of a business day. Weezie is a bad-luck divorcee. In the settlement she got the carriage house in the back yard and one-half of the closed garden while her ex got the lovingly restored (by Weezie) historic townhouse. To make her misery complete, the ex has installed the "other woman," the beauteous Susan, in the townhouse and even gave her Weezie's slot in the garage for her jazzy sports car. Weezie is illegally "previewing" an estate sale at a run down plantation in the dead of night, opens a closet and out falls the body of her rival Susan. Weezie is the prime suspect, and her friends rally round: Uncle James, an in-the-closet gay lawyer who was formerly a priest, best friend BeBe (pronounced Bay Bay); Daniel, master chef and incipient lover; and Merijoy, rich, social, dedicated Preservationist and jaw-droppingly efficient young mother. Even the smallest characters are quirky and unexpected. Weezie's highly proper mother starts her day with half-and-half (iced tea and Four Roses). Andrews' dialogue is dead-on Savannah-speak, and I kept thinking the characters from "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil" were going to join the fun at any moment. Weezie has to be the most nonchalant murder suspect in the annals of crime. She assumes (I presume) justice will prevail and goes about her business, obtaining an unusual antique cupboard and shooting herself in the foot in the romance department. This is a romp and a character study; so much so that long stretches go by when no one even thinks about the murder mystery. Andrews pours on too much in the last quarter solving the murder and righting the wrongs to the point the reader is confused. I felt like I had been called in from recess to study for the final. All in all a delightful book. Andrews and Savannah can take a well-deserved curtsy.
-sweetmolly-... Reviewer
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Summary: WONDERFUL!
Review: Having been a Kathy Hogan Trocheck fan for years, I was thrilled to find this new novel under her pseudonym. The story line was very believable and the characters drew you into the book. Weezie was a delicious protaganist. I found myself rooting for her. I highly recommend this book and hope that "Mary Kay" will bring this character back in another novel. I want to get to know Weezie better!
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Summary: Completely entertaining brain candy
Review: What a fun book. Beginning with a brave (or is it brave-faced?) heroine who tarts up very effectively and wrapping up several subplots with snorting good justice all around, this book kept me turning its pages long after bedtime. I hope Mary Kay Andrews isn't all written out after this book, because she blew tons of great lines and a lot of knowledge about Southern antiques. She introduces some interesting ideas about artifacts in Southern furnishings and shares just enough information about how reproductions, like certain women, can be tarted up to look almost authentic. It's enough to make a girl want to clutch her pocketbook real protectively the next time an Empire table seems to call her name! Avoid this book, please, if you are easily offended, because you will find plenty of bait here. There's at least a couple of scarlet women, a "non-traditional" couple that is pretty much closeted, some less-than-totally-serious engagement with an older woman's alcoholism, and some send-ups of stereotypes that will send their marks whining for rebuttal. I don't care. And if you are looking for a thoroughly entertaining romp outside the ordinary lives of most of us, neither should you. You'll enjoy the characters, their stories (including the big mystery at the book's center), and the writer's delicious descriptions and one-liners.
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Summary: It's good but it's not MIDNIGHT
Review: As a recent newcomer to Savannah I read everything I can about the place. This novel is very entertaining. It is especially good about the subculture of Savannah Catholics, something which makes Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, and of course New Orleans different from the rest of the South: the Catholics did not go far inland, fearing being scalped by the Baptist Rednecks! They stayed in the ports and imported their priests and relatives from Ireland (except for New Orleans, of course). They are the reason Savannah is fun and Macon and Augusta are not! But the book is not MIDNIGHT. It is just ok. It is better than the two novels by Dr. William Harris which are about more ordinary, therefore dull, people. (Except for Francis, the Nazi-IRA spy.) But Savannah has enough characters and excentrics for many books. This one is worth reading.
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