Review: I Loved It
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
Above all else I loved this book because some slimy bad guys got their comeuppance and so well done. But seriously the book was well written it held your attention and Ms Hagan's description of life in the rural south in the early sixties was accurate.The small town teems with gossip,corruption,illegal alcohol,gambling and of course the KKK. Luke Ballard returns his small Alabama hometown after his mother's death. Luke's early life in the town had not been good. He had the misfortune of being born out of wedlock and for this the town forgave neither him or his mother. On her death bed his mother told him the real circumstances of his conception and he promises her that he will see that the people who caused her downfall would pay. Luke is back and is the new sheriff he sets about cleaning up the town. He meets Emma Jean who is the wife of his old high school nemesis and against his better judgement he gets involved in an affair with Emma Jean. Luke had been married before he left town for the army and his wife is a fourteen carat b---h who tricked in into marriage because she was pregnant and as Luke suspected he is not the father but he accepted the child. He had joined the army  to get away from the wife who was a selfish,materialist gossiping piece of trash. Luke has his hands full handling a messed up town, a love affair,vicious wife and seeing that the bad guys get the final justice they deserve. He gets all of his problems taken care of in great style.