Review: Texas is big...not long
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2011
Bubba was a little too much fun...about 30 pages worth. A good editor would have cut more than a few golly gees and aw shucks that were endlessly used to illustrate Southern eccentricity. But dagnabbit, this story is set in Texas not the South! Perhaps Bubba and his redneck cast will relocate to the real South where he can wear a baseball cap instead of a stetson. I recently spent a week in Texas and dadgummit, no one sounded like the characters in Bevill's book. Despite a style that laid it on a little too long and too thick, Bubba had its moments and I maintained interest in the mystery to the bitter end. Bevill can make something of Bubba and his quirky entourage  but if the 12 Deadly Days of Christmas ends in June, I'll pass.