By Lindsey Heiser
A lot of girls tend to enjoy reading novels, poems and other stories about love, fate and chance. Why so many girls enjoy reading books about characters falling in love, taking chances and living in the moment is pretty simple to me, although some people have a hard time understanding. Personally, I think these types of “chick Flick” stories are extremely intriguing. It’s every girl’s dream to fall in love and live in romantic, spontaneous worlds like these characters in books and movies, right? We’re just living vicariously through the made up, yet greatly compelling characters. In Sarah Dessen’s novel, The Truth about Forever, a world is created in which every girl can live vicariously through the main character who is falling in love while getting over the death of a loved one.
In the novel, the main character, Macy Queen, deals with loss, love, fate and more loss. One morning, Macy’s father who was jogging as usual, dies of a heart attack right in front of her. His death leaves Macy reluctant to love again or have anything to do with anyone or anything in the world around her. Macy keeps to herself and her control freak boyfriend, Jason. Macy believes that Jason is what she really needs in life in order to stay in control. Jason leaves for camp, and Macy does her best to remain in total control of her life, taking no chances, and working the library job that Jason set up for her. Then, at one of her mother’s dinner parties, Macy meets a catering company that changes her life completely. She soon begins working and spending a lot of time with the Wish Catering company, and even more time with the owner’s nephew, Wes. Macy and Wes build a friendship that is invincible, and teach each other the true meaning of life. Wes shows Macy that fate and chance are keys in living in the moment, and that without taking chances, life isn’t worth it. Macy learns the true meaning of love and that hard situations only lead to a stronger person. In the end, Macy comes to realization and a truly intriguing climax and resolution leave the reader wanting so much more.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Truth about Forever. I’m not the fastest reader, but I read the four hundred page novel in two days. It’s impossible to put the novel down because you get so into the fantasy world that Sarah Dessen creates. I think it’s easy for any teenage girl to relate to Macy, the main character, whether you’ve been through what she has been through or not. While it is more of a “girl book”, boys could get something out of reading the novel too. It opens your eyes, and makes you realize that living in the moment is so necessary. Nobody lasts forever, and you have to take chances when you have them. I recommend The Truth about Forever to all readers looking for a novel about love and living in the moment.
You might be wondering about the end of the novel. All I can say is that even if three fourths of the novel seemed boring to you, the last part makes it worth reading. It’s definitely a climax and resolution that will have your heart racing and your mind running in a thousand different directions.
Sound interesting to you? All of Sarah Dessen’s books follow a general topic about growing up, taking chances, and learning to love. Any book store would carry several of her wonderful novels for young adults.
Post by Lindsey Heiser
Thursday, March 26, 2009
One Mississippi
Whether you are a girl who loves those sometimes over-rated “chick Flicks” or a boy who is into the violent action stories, One Mississippi written by Mark Childress is a book for you. Childress covers the love and fate topics for the readers that are out for a true romance novel and ends it with a climax full of action for the readers that live for violent action-filled stories.
One Mississippi is about a main character, Daniel Musgrove, who moves from his hometown in Indiana to a rural town in Mississippi due to his father’s job. He is about to begin his junior year at a new school, when he finds out his brother, who is also his best friend, is joining the army and going away. Forced to fit in at a new school, Daniel meets Tim Cousins who quickly becomes his new best friend. Daniel and Tim do everything together, and don’t pass up any chance to do something that will make others laugh. The two boys double date to prom and have an enjoyable night until the end. On the way home, the boys hit the school’s black prom queen, Arnita Beecham, while she is riding her bike. Afraid of what might happen, the boys don’t stop to help her, and they let Red Martin, the school’s bully, take the blame. Arnita’s mother suspects Daniel of the accident all along and uses this instinct to get complete power over him. While Daniel helps Arnita’s mother around the house, he becomes close with Arnita. They quickly develop a relationship that the town does not approve of (Since he is white and Arnita is black), and that leaves Tim terribly jealous. In the end, Tim commits an act unimaginable. The plot’s crazy twist will leave you shocked and trembling.
I absolutely loved the novel. One Mississippi is one of the best books I have ever read. I could not put the book down once I had started it. Not only that, I read the book twice which is something I never do. Mark Childress twists the plot which keeps the reader constantly on their toes waiting to see what happens next. For any reader looking for a novel that keeps their interest throughout the entire story, One Mississippi is the book to get.
You might be interested in how the relationship between Anita and Daniel worked out considering the story’s setting is in the 1970’s when blacks were looked down upon. The town showed hatred towards the couple. One time, when the two were at a show, people sitting behind them poured coke over their heads. Not only did society judge them, Tim Cousins showed no respect towards them either.
You might also wonder about the “action-filled” ending. Tim Cousins commits a crime that hurts many of the people close to him, and many innocent people at his high school. While in the act, Tim reveals a deep secret to Daniel who is attempting to control Tim in his outrage. It's truly an unforgettable ending.
One Mississippi by Mark Childress will forever be one of my favorite novels. I recommend this novel to all readers that are looking for an adventure through the pages of a phenomenal story.
One Mississippi is about a main character, Daniel Musgrove, who moves from his hometown in Indiana to a rural town in Mississippi due to his father’s job. He is about to begin his junior year at a new school, when he finds out his brother, who is also his best friend, is joining the army and going away. Forced to fit in at a new school, Daniel meets Tim Cousins who quickly becomes his new best friend. Daniel and Tim do everything together, and don’t pass up any chance to do something that will make others laugh. The two boys double date to prom and have an enjoyable night until the end. On the way home, the boys hit the school’s black prom queen, Arnita Beecham, while she is riding her bike. Afraid of what might happen, the boys don’t stop to help her, and they let Red Martin, the school’s bully, take the blame. Arnita’s mother suspects Daniel of the accident all along and uses this instinct to get complete power over him. While Daniel helps Arnita’s mother around the house, he becomes close with Arnita. They quickly develop a relationship that the town does not approve of (Since he is white and Arnita is black), and that leaves Tim terribly jealous. In the end, Tim commits an act unimaginable. The plot’s crazy twist will leave you shocked and trembling.
I absolutely loved the novel. One Mississippi is one of the best books I have ever read. I could not put the book down once I had started it. Not only that, I read the book twice which is something I never do. Mark Childress twists the plot which keeps the reader constantly on their toes waiting to see what happens next. For any reader looking for a novel that keeps their interest throughout the entire story, One Mississippi is the book to get.
You might be interested in how the relationship between Anita and Daniel worked out considering the story’s setting is in the 1970’s when blacks were looked down upon. The town showed hatred towards the couple. One time, when the two were at a show, people sitting behind them poured coke over their heads. Not only did society judge them, Tim Cousins showed no respect towards them either.
You might also wonder about the “action-filled” ending. Tim Cousins commits a crime that hurts many of the people close to him, and many innocent people at his high school. While in the act, Tim reveals a deep secret to Daniel who is attempting to control Tim in his outrage. It's truly an unforgettable ending.
One Mississippi by Mark Childress will forever be one of my favorite novels. I recommend this novel to all readers that are looking for an adventure through the pages of a phenomenal story.
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Brisingr, by Christopher Paolini, is the third novel in the Inheritance Cycle, which is more commonly known as the Eragon Series. The Inheritance Cycle follows the story of Eragon, a boy in the fictional world of Alaglesia. It is a colorful world of many races and peoples, all struggling against the horrible regime of their almost omnipotent king, Galbotorix. Eragon, in the previous novels, became one of the Dragon Riders, an elite group of warriors who fight upon dragons and are able to use magic. They were almost completely destroyed by Galbotorix and he has ruled with an iron fist since, and will continue to, as being a Dragon Rider makes you immortal to disease and age. He is one of only four, known to still survive, that include him, an elf named Oromis, Murtagh, his half-brother whom he encounters in the first novel, and Galbotorix. They all ride a specifically named dragon, and they are the only known ones to live: Eragon’s Saphira, Oromis’s Glaedr, Murtagh’s Thorn, and Galbotorix’s Shruikan.
Eragon has been through many trials in the past two novels, and will face countless more in Brisingr. During the novel, Eragon and the Varden, a group of dwarvish and human rebels, begin their attack upon Galbotorix’s empire. Eragon also undergoes a search for a way to beat Galbotorix’s seemingly unlimited supply of power. Eragon’s cousin, named Roran, helps lead the Varden into battle as well, after Eragon saves Roran’s fiancé, who was taken by Galbotorix’s henchmen earlier in the series. The Varden have become very powerful, and, after a series of defeats from Galbotorix’s army’s attacks, strike into the Empire. Galbotorix’s army, led by Murtagh, who has been forced by magic to serve Galbotorix, is even enchanted to feel no pain, so as to do as much damage to the Varden’s soldiers as possible.
Eragon also searches for a new sword. Riders used special swords that never broke nor dulled, and Eragon’s was taken by Murtagh in their last encounter. Eragon finally is able to get a sword, which he names Brisingr, the name of the spell he uses, which creates fire. The only problem with the otherwise perfect sword is the fact that every time he says the sword’s name, it bursts into flames.
While searching for a way to get a sword, Eragon and Oromis try to figure out the way Galbotorix acquired enough power to topple the power of the chivalrous Dragon Riders. Eventually, they discover that it is from the Eldunari, a part of a dragon in which a dragon can store his entire being, excluding his physical form. They are very powerful, and Galbotorix had captured hundreds in his attack against the Riders. Oromis’s dragon decides to give Eragon his Eldunari, as to give Eragon an advantage he needs. Unfortunately, Oromis and Glaedr are killed by Murtagh, at an elven attack upon Galbotorix’s city of
I highly recommend the book to anyone who has read the series. It continues right where the second book left off. It is full of action around every corner, and goes into every part of what is going on around Eragon. I also recommend reading the previous two novels first, to know what is going on. Once I started reading the book, I couldn’t put it down until it was done.
-Jake Menges
Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth is a book that I would have never thought I would’ve read. I passed over it several times before deciding it looked too non-fiction and historical for me. I was thinking that it was going to be like watching a dreadful show with a boring narration. I was very wrong about my initial assumptions and thoughts. This book turned out to be extremely insightful and fun to read. I became very knowledgeable on the subject of the propaganda and other forms of luring the youth of
To some the German public at the time of the rise of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party also know as Nazism under the lead of Adolf Hitler was not observant, but in all reality it was not their fault. The Nazi party was leading a scandal of propaganda that was so well thought out and deep that it was foolproof. The Third Reich was a smart group of radical reformists who wanted to rid Germany of Jews and bring it back to the power it once was.
Hitler Youth starts out by showing a bunch of different people that were in their youth while Hitler was coming to power and their general backgrounds. Many of the children had been warned by their parents to not fall into this trap that this new radical government was offering. Their parents had told them that it was a bad idea to follow these new customs that the Nazis were offering. The children just thought that their parents were being unrealistic to change and being way too old fashioned. It then shows the things in the children’s daily life that they would do and how these activities were influenced by the Third Reich. Everything from school to sports, from hanging out with friends to leisure time was affected very greatly by the Nazis. The Nazis made sure all the time of the children was devoted to showing and proving loyalty to the Third Reich. The Third Reich wanted loyalty over everyone including family. This is why they were about to corrupt the youth in such a way to spend time away from the family and create a sort of evil brotherhood to return Germany to the kind of power it once was. The Nazis created a sense of pride and nationalist movement that was before abandoned and gone from the German public and more importantly the German youth. This book provides very powerful black and white images which very accurately depict the situations going on and the propaganda methods being created. The way Bartoletti’s words and images are displayed it really shows how the mass youth of a large country was about to provide loyalty to a ‘mass murderer’. Although this does not give way to provide an excuse for the horrible events occurred during this time it does help the readers comprehend the circumstances that were going on. I would recommend this book to almost anyone.
Uglies Scott Westerfeld
Set in a time period a couple of hundred years in the future, this story follows a young girl named Tally Youngblood. In Tally’s city, and all the other small cities of the world, there is a mandatory operation when you’re sixteen, that turns you from your natural born looks of an ‘ugly’ to supermodel gorgeous. Every teen is counting down the days until they can get the operation and cross the river that separates Uglyville, with uglies of all ages and a life of child’s play, to
For Tally, the past few months have been unbearable as she waits for her late birthday of September. Tally has already seen her best friend, Peris, across the river and with only a couple of months to go until her operation day, Tally decides that she can’t stand it anymore, and she secretly crosses the river into New Pretty Town to see Peris. After this night-time excursion, Tally meets another ugly girl named Shay, and the two are fast friends when they discover that they share the same birthday.
However, it’s not fun and games any more when Shay starts to become touchy about the operation. She begins to speak about how she doesn’t believe that everyone’s natural looks are that bad, a concept that is hard for Tally to see, because of what the cities taught them. Shay makes plans to run away into the wild, to find a man named David and a place called the Smoke, where everyone lives like the Rusties (the name given to people of our time) and pre-Rusties, cutting down trees, burning wood, and living outdoors. The Smoke is a place to escape the operation, and stay ugly forever. When Shay tries to convince Tally to go, which fails, but a few days later, when Shay does leave, she gives Tally an coded message, which turns out to be directions to the Smoke.
It’s only a week until Tally’s birthday, and she can’t wait. But when she’s picked up for the operation, things go wrong. Instead of being taken to the hospital, Tally is taken to a place called Special Circumstances, home of the cities secret operators. Specials are also referred to as ‘cruel pretties’ because their surgery gives them cruel, yet beautiful features, along with inhuman speed, strength and reflexes. They are mostly believed to be a myth; someone to blame when things go wrong. The Special that Tally meets, Dr. Cable, tries to convince Tally to follow Shay to the Smoke, then activate a tracker so that the Specials can take it down. Dr. Cable gives her a terrible choice. Betray her friend, or never become pretty.
Tally decides to make the trip to the new smoke, a trip that takes her several days by herself. She makes it there alone, but she doesn’t get the chance to set off the tracker for the first few days, and by that time she’s beginning to like life in the Smoke, including the mysterious David. When she goes to meet his parents, Tally learns and awful truth. The operation wasn’t just made to make everyone equal; it was invented to keep everyone under control. When a teenager goes under the knife, along with their supermodel looks, they get tiny lesions in their brains that affect the way they think, making them shallow and agreeable, and also easier to control. This is how the cities keep from falling back into the Rusty days. This horrible truth helps Tally to make an important decision. When she decides to stay in the Smoke forever, Tally tries to destroy the tracker, a heart pendant, by tossing it into a fire. What she doesn’t know, is that it’s designed to send out a signal if it’s damaged. When Tally wakes up the next morning, she finds the Smoke in chaos, and Specials raiding the small civilization, rounding up the Smokies to take them back to their cities. She and David escape, and go back to Tally’s city to rescue everyone else. They manage to rescue Maddy, David’s mother, and a couple of other Smokies, along with Shay, who is now pretty. They find that Maddy may have found a cure to the lesions, and with pre-given consent, Tally goes back to the city with Shay to become pretty, so she can test the experimental cure.
This story had me hooked from the beginning. Everyone wishes that they could control what they looked like at some point in their lives, and this book easily expresses those insecurities people, especially teens, have. Westerfeld uses this story, along with its two sequels and a cast off, to tell teens that they shouldn’t let anyone tell them how they’re supposed to look or how to live life.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
Nineteen minutes is how long it took the Tennessee Titans to sell out of tickets to the play-offs. It’s the length of a sitcom, minus the commercials. It’s the driving distance from the Vermont border to the town of Sterling, New Hampshire.
In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.”
-Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes is a novel about seventeen year old Peter Houghton, a seventeen year old computer geek, “loser,” and student Sterling High School, located in Sterling, New Hampshire. When we first meet Peter, he is introduced as a sweet, innocent child who can’t defend himself. Peter is introduced to guns by his father and he has ideas of how to use them, but doesn’t really develop them. He is tormented by many kids and his only friend is a girl named Josie Cormier. Josie is the only person who accepts Peter for who he is; however, their friendship begins to break as they get older. When Josie and Peter enter high school, Josie becomes one of the popular kids and leaves Peter behind, just like everyone else. She joins the group whose hobby seems to be making fun of Peter and Peter cannot believe it. He is extremely upset and doesn’t know what to do since he was never taught how to defend himself. He finds comfort at his computer and creates a digital world where he can escape all his problems. He creates a video game in which the jocks are the target. This is when he gets the idea that changes the city of Sterling, New Hampshire forever. One day, a group of jocks shanks Peter in the middle of the cafeteria and this embarrassing scene makes him extremely angry. He walks out of the school to his car and plants a grenade in the parking lot; it blows and everyone becomes extremely frightened. Peter unlocks his car and carries out four guns—this marks the beginning of his rampage. Peter walks into the school again and begins shooting at everyone he sees, killing nineteen and wounding ten. His shooting spree begins in the cafeteria and ends in the gym locker room after nineteen minutes. Detective Patrick Ducharme finds Peter shaking in the locker room with unconscious Josie Cormier and her dead boyfriend Matt Royston. Later investigations show that Matt had two bullet holes in his body but only one bullet was fired from the handgun Peter used on the day that changed Sterling forever. The climax of this book takes place when detectives figure out that the second bullet hole in Matt’s body was caused by a gun fired by someone other than Peter—the gun was fired by Matt’s girlfriend, Josie. Josie is sentenced to five years in a women’s penitentiary while Peter is tried for the murders and sentenced to life in prison. One month after his conviction, he commits suicide in his jail cell.
This book takes place in the small city of Sterling, New Hampshire. The novel takes place through a large timeframe because it contains flashbacks from up to seventeen years before the shootings. The main settings are Sterling High School, the location where the shootings occur on March 6, 2007, and the court, where the trial takes place. From reading this book, I think reader’s can learn that as we grow up and away from who we truly are, we don’t realize the damage we do to ourselves and to the people around us. I think Josie Cormier is a prefect example of this. She grows to be on of the popular kid who ends up hurting Peter. I believe that her involvement with the “populars,” being Matt’s girlfriend, and ditching Peter were the main causes for Peter’s rampage. I chose to read this book because the author, Jodi Picoult, is a favorite of mine, and she definitely didn’t disappoint me.
I recommend this book to mature readers due to strong language and very graphic scenes. Nineteen Minutes contains flashbacks and jumps from past to present throughput the book, so if you’re a reader who doesn’t like books like that, I wouldn’t recommend this one. The only thing that I didn’t like about this book is that I couldn’t put it down—once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop because I was so engrossed in the events that took place. Overall, I think Nineteen Minutes is possibly the best book I have ever read.
Nineteen minutes is how long it took the Tennessee Titans to sell out of tickets to the play-offs. It’s the length of a sitcom, minus the commercials. It’s the driving distance from the Vermont border to the town of Sterling, New Hampshire.
In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.”
-Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes is a novel about seventeen year old Peter Houghton, a seventeen year old computer geek, “loser,” and student Sterling High School, located in Sterling, New Hampshire. When we first meet Peter, he is introduced as a sweet, innocent child who can’t defend himself. Peter is introduced to guns by his father and he has ideas of how to use them, but doesn’t really develop them. He is tormented by many kids and his only friend is a girl named Josie Cormier. Josie is the only person who accepts Peter for who he is; however, their friendship begins to break as they get older. When Josie and Peter enter high school, Josie becomes one of the popular kids and leaves Peter behind, just like everyone else. She joins the group whose hobby seems to be making fun of Peter and Peter cannot believe it. He is extremely upset and doesn’t know what to do since he was never taught how to defend himself. He finds comfort at his computer and creates a digital world where he can escape all his problems. He creates a video game in which the jocks are the target. This is when he gets the idea that changes the city of Sterling, New Hampshire forever. One day, a group of jocks shanks Peter in the middle of the cafeteria and this embarrassing scene makes him extremely angry. He walks out of the school to his car and plants a grenade in the parking lot; it blows and everyone becomes extremely frightened. Peter unlocks his car and carries out four guns—this marks the beginning of his rampage. Peter walks into the school again and begins shooting at everyone he sees, killing nineteen and wounding ten. His shooting spree begins in the cafeteria and ends in the gym locker room after nineteen minutes. Detective Patrick Ducharme finds Peter shaking in the locker room with unconscious Josie Cormier and her dead boyfriend Matt Royston. Later investigations show that Matt had two bullet holes in his body but only one bullet was fired from the handgun Peter used on the day that changed Sterling forever. The climax of this book takes place when detectives figure out that the second bullet hole in Matt’s body was caused by a gun fired by someone other than Peter—the gun was fired by Matt’s girlfriend, Josie. Josie is sentenced to five years in a women’s penitentiary while Peter is tried for the murders and sentenced to life in prison. One month after his conviction, he commits suicide in his jail cell.
This book takes place in the small city of Sterling, New Hampshire. The novel takes place through a large timeframe because it contains flashbacks from up to seventeen years before the shootings. The main settings are Sterling High School, the location where the shootings occur on March 6, 2007, and the court, where the trial takes place. From reading this book, I think reader’s can learn that as we grow up and away from who we truly are, we don’t realize the damage we do to ourselves and to the people around us. I think Josie Cormier is a prefect example of this. She grows to be on of the popular kid who ends up hurting Peter. I believe that her involvement with the “populars,” being Matt’s girlfriend, and ditching Peter were the main causes for Peter’s rampage. I chose to read this book because the author, Jodi Picoult, is a favorite of mine, and she definitely didn’t disappoint me.
I recommend this book to mature readers due to strong language and very graphic scenes. Nineteen Minutes contains flashbacks and jumps from past to present throughput the book, so if you’re a reader who doesn’t like books like that, I wouldn’t recommend this one. The only thing that I didn’t like about this book is that I couldn’t put it down—once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop because I was so engrossed in the events that took place. Overall, I think Nineteen Minutes is possibly the best book I have ever read.
Savannah Blues
By: Mary Kay Andrews
Savannah Blues is a novel set in Savannah Georgia about a woman nicknamed “Weezie”. The novel begins when Weezie is married to an ultra WASP (white Anglo-Saxon protestant), Talmadge Evans III. However, after Talmadge spent an evening with another woman, Caroline, the marriage between Weezie and Talmadge no longer exist. The Evans family owns about three quarters of Savannah making it impossible for Weezie to escape him. Since Weezie has no where to go, she moves into the backyard carriage house. Weezie is an antique picker who goes through Savannah’s garage sales when she is not dealing with her relatives or arguing with her ex-husbands fiancé. Throughout everything in Wheeze’s life she is dealing with she, also, is dead broke. Weezie is convinced that all her troubles will go away if she can make a big killing at an old plantation estate sale. Weezie has heard rumors going around that the furniture and paintings in this plantation home are worth over a quarter of a million dollars, but the bidding only starts at ten thousand. While Weezie is dealing with the troubles of her past a new man comes into her bright future, a chef. Her friend, CeCe, takes her to a new hot local restaurant where Weezie meets the bright new chef. (In this novel, the character goes by the name chef) Weezie and the chef have instant chemistry and immediately he invites her to his lake house. They talk and have an incredible made-from-scratch dinner. They look at the stars and fall asleep in each others arms. When Weezie is with Chef all of her troubles go away, however Weezie must return to reality. When Weezie returns back to her carriage house Talmadge is inside waiting on her. Talmadge then proceeds to kiss Weezie and constantly telling her how much of a mistake he had made. Weezie thinks about this momentarily and then tells Talmadge that she is moving out as soon as possible. Weezie finds a house on one of the best streets in Savannah, costing over 200,000. Then Weezie notices in the paper that the estate sale is coming up in one week and she can not wait that long. Weezie has to get a first look at what could possible be in that estate. The Chef has a massive truck and on the night before the estate sale opening Weezie and the Chef camp out outside the estate in the back of his green truck. However, when they arrive there are, also, about forty-five other cars parked outside of the estate. Weezie can not let any one get to anything before her. Around two o’clock in the morning, Weezie wakes up and notices that the second story window is cracked. Weezie wakes up the Chef and they find a ladder. Weezie rolls into the estate and silently walks through looking for the treasures of the estate. Weezie is opening every day she can get her hands on, until she opens the closet and a body is laying dead cold in front of her. To make matters worse the silent alarm went off and the police show up right beside Weezie. Now Weezie has to explain to the police why she broke into the estate, and why the dead body is none other than her ex-husband’s finance Caroline.
Savannah Blues is a novel set in Savannah Georgia about a woman nicknamed “Weezie”. The novel begins when Weezie is married to an ultra WASP (white Anglo-Saxon protestant), Talmadge Evans III. However, after Talmadge spent an evening with another woman, Caroline, the marriage between Weezie and Talmadge no longer exist. The Evans family owns about three quarters of Savannah making it impossible for Weezie to escape him. Since Weezie has no where to go, she moves into the backyard carriage house. Weezie is an antique picker who goes through Savannah’s garage sales when she is not dealing with her relatives or arguing with her ex-husbands fiancé. Throughout everything in Wheeze’s life she is dealing with she, also, is dead broke. Weezie is convinced that all her troubles will go away if she can make a big killing at an old plantation estate sale. Weezie has heard rumors going around that the furniture and paintings in this plantation home are worth over a quarter of a million dollars, but the bidding only starts at ten thousand. While Weezie is dealing with the troubles of her past a new man comes into her bright future, a chef. Her friend, CeCe, takes her to a new hot local restaurant where Weezie meets the bright new chef. (In this novel, the character goes by the name chef) Weezie and the chef have instant chemistry and immediately he invites her to his lake house. They talk and have an incredible made-from-scratch dinner. They look at the stars and fall asleep in each others arms. When Weezie is with Chef all of her troubles go away, however Weezie must return to reality. When Weezie returns back to her carriage house Talmadge is inside waiting on her. Talmadge then proceeds to kiss Weezie and constantly telling her how much of a mistake he had made. Weezie thinks about this momentarily and then tells Talmadge that she is moving out as soon as possible. Weezie finds a house on one of the best streets in Savannah, costing over 200,000. Then Weezie notices in the paper that the estate sale is coming up in one week and she can not wait that long. Weezie has to get a first look at what could possible be in that estate. The Chef has a massive truck and on the night before the estate sale opening Weezie and the Chef camp out outside the estate in the back of his green truck. However, when they arrive there are, also, about forty-five other cars parked outside of the estate. Weezie can not let any one get to anything before her. Around two o’clock in the morning, Weezie wakes up and notices that the second story window is cracked. Weezie wakes up the Chef and they find a ladder. Weezie rolls into the estate and silently walks through looking for the treasures of the estate. Weezie is opening every day she can get her hands on, until she opens the closet and a body is laying dead cold in front of her. To make matters worse the silent alarm went off and the police show up right beside Weezie. Now Weezie has to explain to the police why she broke into the estate, and why the dead body is none other than her ex-husband’s finance Caroline.
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