Review: Wickedly funny!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2014
Jack Laskin leads a mundane life. He runs the hardware store that he inherited from his father and he takes care of his mother and her two zany friends, Harriet and Stella. He has a set schedule every week that ends on Friday with him picking up his mother, Stella, and Harriet and he takes them to the local bingo hall. He makes sure that they get to sit at their lucky table, Stella gets her lucky card, and the third gets to sit in her lucky chair. Then he waits for his girlfriend Connie, to show up with her mother and older, but mentally challenged brother. Such is the life of one living in a small town.Then Jack's life changes when his mother has him try on a pair of his grandfather's pants. The pants seem to magically adjust and fit him as though they were made especially for him. Then his mother, Stella, and Harriet begin to tell Jack all about the sexual prowess of his grandfather and father and how he too, is probably blessed with this gift. Jack is only interested in one girl, Connie, but his mother and her cronies have other plans for her very naive son.Not only are the older ladies plotting against Jack, but so are several other people in town, and Jack has no idea why.After wearing the magic pants, people start treating Jack differently and call him Henry, after his grandfather. Jack starts questioning himself and wonders if he could really need a "rotation" in his life.There is no shortage of fun and laughter in this wonderful novel. I would recommend it to anyone interested in romance, comedy, or mystery, with a little fantasy thrown in for good measure.