by Joshilyn Jackson
I had a mixed reaction to this one, but I’m not sure entirely why, and I’m not sure I can tease it out in the time and space I have here.
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2011/04/review-backseat-saints-by-joshilyn.html
I love a good southern story and Joshilyn Jackson does them so well. I really enjoyed this book.
I bought this book because the opening line hooked me: “It was an airport gypsy who told me that I had to kill my husband. She may have been the firt to say the words out loud, but she was only giving voice to a thing that I’d been trying not to know for a long, long timel.”The first paragraph displ...
Does anyone ever know who we truly are? Do we even know? It is into this theme the reader descends as s/he is immersed in Joshilyn Jackson’s Backseat Saints. As Rose Mae/Ro flees her marriage and attempts to set out on her own, she must ultimately uncover who she is and why she keeps hiding before s...
Dark, at times brutal and wonderfully written, the story of Rose Mae Lolley struggling to find herself is one best read, not on a sunny beach, but on your couch with a glass of wine and someone to talk to.
It was okay. The violence was rather brutal, but the story itself was pretty well-paced. There were some leaps that required a bit more of a suspension of disbelief than I was able to muster, and which detracted from my enjoyment of the novel. The writing was a bit choppy.
Well. I simply cannot believe why I've never read Joshilyn Jackson's books before Gods in Alabama, and now Backseat Saints. She creates characters that just pull you in and stay with you. Rose Mae Lolley was a minor character in Jackson's Gods in Alabama, but here, it's all about Rose. Rose, and her...
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