Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch

SUMMARY:

"Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)
But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind.
When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistible, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent."

REVIEW

I enjoyed this book for the most part.  It was a quick read and was entertaining. However, the narrating style was inconsistent and kept changing which would sometimes throw me off.  Chapters skipped around in time, which was confusing, and important events weren't always explained, such as her sister marriages and her friend Charlotte's Heroin problem. The main character, Sarah Walters wasn't really likable, she was pessimistic and pretty pathetic and I kept waiting for her to change but it never happened.  If she had, then this could have been a great coming of age story.  The one thing that saved this book was the wit.  The writer was very witty and it made the book entertaining, if nothing else. 


P.S. Sorry, my first two reviews are so negative.  I really usually like my reading material.

The Client by John Grisham

Summary:

  "In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two  boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the  curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother  were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance  encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing  a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of  the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught  between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer  desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is  a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer  for all of four years. Prosecutors are  willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The  mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And  Reggie will do anything to protect her client --  even take a last, desperate gamble that could win  Mark his freedom... or cost them both their  lives."

My Review:

I can honestly say that this is one book I wish I had never picked up.  The main character, Mark Sway was an unbelievable character, which is the first thing that ruined the book for me.  The second thing that ruined this book for me was the lack of interesting events.  It was very predictable and through most of the book I just wanted to skip a few chapters to the end to see what happened instead of sitting through predictable trial after trial.  The climax of the book didn’t come until about 30 pages to the end of the book and it was a disappointment. I am also not a fan of cliffhanger endings in stories that do not have a sequel and this ending was definitely a cliffhanger.   I really struggled to get through this book and was disappointed, overall.

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