Book Review - The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc by Loraine Despres
“First I loved “The Southern Belle’s Handbook” notations at the beginning of each chapter! What a unique way to introduce each chapter and wet your appetite for what was coming up.Â
I’ll say this book was a total surprise. From the jacket cover to the title of the book - this one left me totally surprise for the storyline with the pages as it unfolded. I love a good romance novel but this one I found exceptionally good and was really quite different than the normal run of the mill romance novel. As you delve further and further into this storyline - it’s incredible how she weaves between the past and present - telling a story of family secrets, lust, deceit, jealousy, murder, and much more! It left me wondering over and over if this was a true story and when an author can take a fiction and make you feel like the story is real while reading it - I’d say that’s pretty incredible. What a read!
Beware of the sometimes explicit sexual language - if that offends you, might not like this book… I loved the book and I’d recommend it!”
Book Review by Susan Hilliard Fusiarski - Writester.net
Book Jacket Description:
It’s a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, wondering — half seriously — if she could kill herself with aspirins and Coca-Cola. She’s been living in stifling old Gentry since the day she was born and trapped in a sham of a marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc since she was only seventeen. In short, she’s fed up, restless, and ready for an adventure.
Sissy just never imagined temptation would come into her life that breathless summer day as she sat smoking on her porch swing. For although she may have been fixated on the taut muscles of the lineman shimmying down the telephone pole across the street, she hadn’t allowed herself to imagine that he’d be none other than her high school sweetheart, Parker Davidson, who left town fourteen years before without so much as a wave good-bye. But suddenly, here he is, leaning in for a kiss that will stir up more excitement than Sissy could ever have imagined…
Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers
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The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc by Loraine Despres