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Red's Hot Honky-Tonk Bar (2009)

by Pamela Morsi(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0778327299 (ISBN13: 9780778327295)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mira

review 1: This author really knows her craft.Great telling rather than showing! "Showing" us people's actions rather than telling us about them really draws you in and makes you identify with the characters. You won't find all of those pages of angsty internal emotions and negative thoughts here--thank heavens. Doesn't front-load the backstory! Like a writing teacher of mine once said, keep the back story a secret until the readers are begging to know it! She does that.Great emotion--lots of characters who've lived through tough things, are now living through tough things or who will be living through tough things. People from the past effecting the present and working through of negative relationships. Kids--one working so hard to be grown-up and responsible, the other badly distre... moressed--pull on our heart strings. Good detail. Again it pulls us into the story, learning the details about the history and geography of the town for example. But not excessive detail.A different heroine than most. Uneducated, working class, a little "low class" in her style. My only serious complaint: we don't really see the H and h interact in ways that show us why the H was drawn to the h besides her looks, the fact that she isn't a talker (he wasn't either), she was strong, and passionate. Instead, we see only the friction between the couple resulting from all the problems they're dealing with so mostly she acts like a bitch toward him, even trying to hurt him at times to get him to back off. This changes toward the very end but we should have seen some of the good relationship stuff before that.
review 2: synopsis:red owns a bar in an area that is being renovated to become more upscale. she's sleeping with a fiddle player 15 years her junior, and doesn't do serious relationships. red is estranged from her daughter, who is in afghanistan as a medic. the daughter's ex's mother is looking after her two children, but has a heart attack, and can't look after them anymore. the ex-husband is in the army and can't be found, so the daughter asks red to look after her own grandchildren. red has some period of adjustment, and having her children living over the bar is not the answer. red expects cam to leave, but he surprises her and sticks it out.what i liked: i liked that cam was so supportive of red, and even though she thought that it wasn't serious, once things got difficult, he was the one that she turned to. the grandchildren were typical of children, especially ones who had hardly had any contact with their grandmother.what i didn't like: red. she was kind of abrasive. she's got this young, good looking guy willing to stand beside her, and she didn't want anything to do with him. less

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