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Book Review: Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson

Synopsis
Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As “Mrs. Ro Grandee” she’s trapped in a marriage that’s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting “Ro” make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy—one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose’s beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first.

Review
I have long avoided general contemporary fiction because I’ve never really met one I liked—save perhaps Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary. I tried again last year to broaden my reading palate with Julia Leigh’s Disquiet, only to yet again be thoroughly disappointed and slip back into my comfortable world of historical dramas and fantasy/sci-fi. Read more

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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2010: 06/02
POSTED BY: Teresa
CATEGORY: Fiction
TAGS: Alabama
author: Joshilyn Jackson
California
domestic abuse
publisher: grand central publishing
Southern authors
Texas
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Taking Chase by Lauren Dane

Synopsis: Cassie Gambol is on the run. In what seems like another lifetime, her ex-husband nearly ended her life and effectively ended her successful career as a vascular surgeon. But even though the justice system found him guilty of attempted murder, he fled while awaiting sentencing and Carly Sunderland became Cassie Gambol.

Shane Chase, a man who’s held himself away from commitment since his fiancée dumped him several years before, knows the beautiful newcomer is hiding something. He’s wildly attracted to her strength and her underlying vulnerability as well.

And now, Cassie’s ex is back and he wants her dead.

Review: This review was a bit hard to write. The book has so much to recommend it and yet…and yet….

Let me start with the good stuff. If an author wants to tackle domestic abuse then this is the way to do it. The author obviously did her homework well. She gave us a heroine who most people would not think of as a possible victim of domestic abuse. She is a well to do surgeon with money that her father had left her, and her ex-husband was a doctor too. This makes the good point that domestic abuse is not about class, religion or race, it’s about sick people doing sick things. Read more

Maya

Maya is a mechanical engineer and an avid reader with a love of history, mythology and culture. She is a typical Aquarian with a mean streak of reality but loves books of a paranormal and supernatural nature.

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2010: 01/17
POSTED BY: Maya
CATEGORY: Romance
TAGS: author:Lauren Dane
domestic abuse
ebook
erotica
love
publisher: Samhain Publishing
romantic suspense
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Disquiet by Julia Leigh

Synopsis
Olivia arrives at her mother’s chateau in rural France (the first time in more than a decade) with her two young children in tow. Soon the family is joined by Olivia’s brother Marcus and his wife Sophie, but this reunion is far from joyful.

Review
I found this to be an odd book, but that’s mainly from the character Sophie and her obsession over her dead baby, which she carries around with her to the point of decomposition. I guess I just don’t understand the hoopla and comparison of the author with greats like Ian MacEwan. Leigh’s writing style reminded me of MacEwan’s but that was about it. The book was very creepy to me in places. I sensed a weird tension between some of the family members that left me uncomfortable.