Review: Two Was More
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2013
"Shopping w/Mrs. Blakemore" is a story of love, racism, danger, violence, family ties and the most heart breaking cruelty I have ever read.  This book despite some editing problems was well written and entertaining.The characters of Saxton and Odessa are wonderful.  Their parents are great, lending balance to the violence that invades their lives.  Victorio Renteria is complex villain totally not one dimensional definately not cuddly.  Gramma Patsy a woman of her era but has courage and honor.The humor in this book is outrageous.  Take note to crack about Luterans, a cousins love of chickens, quotes from "Snakes on a Plane", hilarious.  Balanced against the scenes of the expliotation of women and children with the added horror of trafficing body parts without levity this story would be very grim.  Kudos to to Ms. Gaines for providing a forum for airing these crimes.Fabulous second book.  Highly reccommend.