Review: Cute and funny
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
This was my first experience with this author, and I have to say I really enjoyed it. Being an Alabama girl myself, I loved the setting and totally understood the culture...especially the beauty shop:-) Mandy had obviously put herself in a difficult position in her home town when she made a mistake on high school graduation night. Coming home after a long time away and as a result of a personal tragedy saddling her with huge responsibilities has stripped her of the confidence she built while she was gone. Many of the situations and especially confrontations she finds herself in are uncomfortable at best and vengeful more often than not. I felt a lot of sympathy for her. She trudged along trying to make the best of a difficult situation and ended up in the middle of a murder conspiracy.The two men who enter and re-enter her life are detective Ty and super spy (maybe) Colin. Both seem to be trying to protect her in their own way. There are some sparks in both directions, but no searing flames of passion just yet. I'm very interested to see where those sparks might lead in future books.Chaos and danger insue as Mandy tries to investigate on her own. Everything culminates in a major show down leaving the murder solved, but one of Mandy's leading men MIA. Mandy begins to grow and adjust toward the end of the book as does her relationship with her autistic sister. Though there was a definite conclusion to this book, there were also threads left to string the reader into the next book in what I think will end up being a really nice series.