Review: A Sweet Love Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
"Best Laid Plans" by Peggy Blann Phifer threw memories of Las Vegas onto the forefront of my mind. If you've been anywhere off the Strip for any length of time, you know the city of Las Vegas bustles like any other city. Neat houses of varying sizes snuggle against the buttes, flatlands and arroyos of a desert landscape. Palm trees wave in the breeze and sudden downpours wash across the streets. Jets zoom in and out of McCarren Airport streaking contrails across an otherwise cloudless cobalt sky."Best Laid Plans" opens at McCarren Airport as the protagonist,  Erin Weyland Macintyre, circles through the parking garage looking for a spot. She soon meets up with Larke LePaige, sister and maid-of-honor in her upcoming wedding to Clayton Buchanan. From this point onward, missteps and misunderstandings work as if in a conspiracy to frustrate the "Best Laid Plans" of Erin.In this sweet, never sentimental, short story, Peggy picks up the story thread from her novel, "To See The Sun," also set in Vegas, and gives us a rollicking story recounting the efforts of a love-struck woman planning the perfect, intimate wedding. This is a short story that will delight the reader snugged in a lounger with a cup of decaf java. It can be read in one evening and cannot be put down until its very cute ending is reached."Best Laid Plans" is part of the Twelve Days of Christmas" series offered to the reader by well-know and much published Author and Editor, Kathi Macias. I received my copy gratis in exchange for a review. I am under no obligation to provide a good one.