Review: Bubba Got Me.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
This is the first in a delightful series of "Bubba" novels by C.L. Bevill.  College educated, about which he is somewhat embarrassed, working as an top grade small town auto mechanic Bubba is heir to and living in genteel poverty on the Snoddy Estate.  Bubba is a delightfully and sometimes unintentionally  humorous, down to earth local boy.  Innocently, he somehow develops a particularly difficult propensity for finding dead bodies, and winding up in the custody of the self-important city Sheriff who is short on brains, and just doesn't like Bubba at all. Bubba is friends with everybody he knows, mostly odd bodies of all descriptions including some of the not so loony "loonies" from a local residential facility for the mentally off kilter. He likes everyone except those trying to kill him, jail him or hurt those he loves, and  he loves some of them, too, at times. He especially loves the two women in his life: his pretentious, vocal social activist, illegal poker playing mother, unquestioned Grande Dame of Pegram county; and his elusive, confusing soul mate, the beautious Deputy Sheriff Willodean (who also plays in his mother's illegal poker game).  Being a country girl myself,I see some of my favorite tall tale telling relatives in this series. The colloquialisms were spot on and hilarious in and of themselves.  Any one who buys any book of this series is in for a treat.