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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
Baker informs his wife, Lee Lee, that he is wanting to move from Tennessee to Vermont to run an inn. She is not to thrilled about it but does decide to move. The agreement is they have to leave the inn just as it is for one year. Lee Lee is not thrilled as the furniture is ugly, the decor is ugly, and the house smells bad. The story is about her ownership and occurrences in her life.
Great book and I am thrilled to find out there is a sequel coming out next month. Read it in just a few days. You will not be disappointed!
Love my Dixie chick reads. Leelee's from Memphis, born & bred. She loves her Daddy and her girlfriends. She marries a guy she loved since high school and they have 2 small daughters. Her Daddy dies and her hubby gets restless. He wants to sell their home in Memphis and buy a B & B in Vermont. Against her better judgement, she stands by her man and they move to Vermont. The difference in lifestyle is staggering. I got a hoot out of the descriptions of the oddities people acquire as they get set in their ways. I might like to live in Memphis, Vermont? Not so much.
This was a book I just grabbed off the recently returned shelf at the library.
I really enjoyed this book. The "fish out of water" twist was a lot of fun. Being a native New Englander I can only imaging how foreign Vermont (and all that snow!) would feel to a Southern Belle.
The first half of the book, LeeLee is a little whiny and spoiled, but it was totally justified. She did try to keep a smile on her face and mostly complained in her own head. This was a difficult transition to move from a big city where she had tons of support and a life she knew to a small town where she had to find her own way.
I'm so happy her girlfriends surprised her with a visit to Vermont. They were the tonic she needed to move forward and create her own life. I also liked watching LeeLee make friends in Vermont. The people she meets are unlike the lifelong friends she's had but she really makes the most of these new experiences.
I didn't like how she just avoided dealing with Baker after he left. She just lets him take the girls for dinner but doesn't formalize any support or schedule? She's so eager to get back to Memphis, so why doesn't she call an attorney from home to start serving papers to him in Vermont? He's also fine with her just taking the girls back to Memphis and he'll see them for a few weeks in the summer?
I also don't understand how Baker is fine just walking away from the inn and leaving it in LeeLee's hands. Is that because it was her father's money that funded most of the move so he doesn't feel invested? He set up the cockamamie agreement where the previous owners would hold the mortgage AND run the inn that caused so much of the strife to begin with. Why didn't they get a loan from a bank? Especially if they sold their $500K house and bought the inn for $385K, there shouldn't have been a need for a mortgage.
I did guess the twist at the end of the book. It was pretty obvious that it was coming.
Needless to say, I'm looking forward to the sequel. Because I did like LeeLee and hope to see her grow and become a successful inn owner in her hometown.
I really enjoyed this book. The "fish out of water" twist was a lot of fun. Being a native New Englander I can only imaging how foreign Vermont (and all that snow!) would feel to a Southern Belle.
The first half of the book, LeeLee is a little whiny and spoiled, but it was totally justified. She did try to keep a smile on her face and mostly complained in her own head. This was a difficult transition to move from a big city where she had tons of support and a life she knew to a small town where she had to find her own way.
I'm so happy her girlfriends surprised her with a visit to Vermont. They were the tonic she needed to move forward and create her own life. I also liked watching LeeLee make friends in Vermont. The people she meets are unlike the lifelong friends she's had but she really makes the most of these new experiences.
I didn't like how she just avoided dealing with Baker after he left. She just lets him take the girls for dinner but doesn't formalize any support or schedule? She's so eager to get back to Memphis, so why doesn't she call an attorney from home to start serving papers to him in Vermont? He's also fine with her just taking the girls back to Memphis and he'll see them for a few weeks in the summer?
I also don't understand how Baker is fine just walking away from the inn and leaving it in LeeLee's hands. Is that because it was her father's money that funded most of the move so he doesn't feel invested? He set up the cockamamie agreement where the previous owners would hold the mortgage AND run the inn that caused so much of the strife to begin with. Why didn't they get a loan from a bank? Especially if they sold their $500K house and bought the inn for $385K, there shouldn't have been a need for a mortgage.
I did guess the twist at the end of the book. It was pretty obvious that it was coming.
Needless to say, I'm looking forward to the sequel. Because I did like LeeLee and hope to see her grow and become a successful inn owner in her hometown.
I really enjoyed this book. Definitely chick-lit, but perfect for a fun summer read. A Southern belle moves to Vermont with her husband who has bought an inn he wants to run. What ensues after that is heart-warming, funny, and put a smile on my face.
I bought this during a Kindle sale on Amazon, and honestly, I don't think I would have been happy having paid more for it than I did. Leelee's the epitome of what I dislike about the stereotypical southern belle -- spoiled, with a sense of entitlement and little patience for things she doesn't know about or never experienced before, to the point of whininess. Yes, she grows as a character during the course of events in the book, but she's still (IMHO) not an entirely likable character by the end. I didn't hate this book, but I also couldn't wait for it to be over so I could move on to something new.
a little confusing, slow going. Not my favorite. I will say I was not expecting the hardship to be what it was.
Such a great read and love how the character grew throughout the book. I have to continue reading the next in the series to see how the relationships progress.
The characters were bland and the events predictable.