Review: Okay, Ms Dianne needs a few beta readers but the story deserves full props.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
The military term, FUBAR, (Google it) is mostly used as a negative description of a royal cluster-f@^.  These books are the most decadently, delicious collection of screw-ups you will read.Think the humor of Evanovich' s Stephanie Plum, mixed with a whole lot of SCANDAL, plus wonderful female characters who went to the THELMA AND LOUISE/GOODFELLAS school of get-my-butt-out-of-this-frikkin-mess.  Toss in some BENJAMIN BUTTON, because the little kids are smarter than the ignorant old wind bags who think they have a handle on the situations.Put them all together and you have THIS. IS. NOT. OVER. 1&2There are just too many twists and turns, OMGs and WTFs to adequately do the complete narrative justice.  I'll break it down to the cons and pros:Cons - I got a headache from rolling my eyes at the grammatical errors.It  went on way to long once the literary "fire" got doused.  (Those of you who read the books will get the pun).It took me a while to keep the crews straight.  You have the main characters Red and Mac.  Red's possee consists of Danielle,Jon, Jasmine, .Marlon, Rena and Matt.  Mac's homies are Malcolm, Danielle or Laura,Jacob,Winnie, Nat and Dena ... You lose some, gain others and eventually merge the leftovers so you may want to keep a list.Pros - you have that list of characters... add the Looney Tunesled by Laura who had been part of Mac's crew. (She is NOT deranged, insane or crazy.  She's disturbed)Lola who can sort of be pitied for truly being disturbed,Cadence, who could be called crazy in love.The Blair matriarch, Queen Angie and patriarch King Winston.Finally you have Carlo and Eva Rossi potentially silly residents of the White House.The stable voice of reason comes in the form of Danielle's parents, Jackson and Elise Rouge, assorted kids, employees and neighbors.More pros - mix races, ethnicities, haves and have nots, lock-jawed New Englanders and a rainbow of Louisiana creoles.A love affair that starts in a library with butterfly effects that span through two decades.A young man so in love with the little red-haired girl for twelve years he sends birthday wishes and cherry blossom petal to the object of his affectionsSo if I was to cast the movie Kerry Washington would do Red proud although premise is just a tad close to the TV show.  Pair her with Channing Tatum after diction coaching and if I got pictures of those two doing the nasty they would definitely get a twelve page spread in vanity fair.  How cool would that be?GET THE FREAKING BOOKS!!!