Pawleys Island (Lowcountry Tales) | Dorothea Benton Frank

Pawleys Island (Lowcountry Tales) | Dorothea Benton Frank | ALL her books are great!

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Pawleys Island (Lo...

	Pawleys Island (Lowcountry Tales) Dorothea Benton Frank Berkley, 2006 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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With characteristic humor and a full cast of eccentric and wonderfully lovable characters, Dorothea Benton Frank brings readers a refreshingly honest and funny novel about friendship, family, and finding happiness by becoming who you are meant to be.

Wonderful

What a wonderful story. Ms. Frank has a fantastic style of story telling and everytime I finish one of her books, I want to plan a trip to the Low Country. Her books are always rewarding and rich with details - like drinking Co-Cola only from a glass bottle. And her heroines are always strong women who just don't know it yet. I want to be a character in one of her novels!!

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ALL her books are great!

I have now read all but one of this authors books, and they are all fantastic. I wish there were more because I'm really going to miss them. I'll be watching for her next books.

Decent beach book, but mediocre story..

I always look forward to reading Dorothea Benton Frank when I'm on vacation in the low country of South Carolina. While Pawleys Island is a good enough beach book, overall, I think it was mediocre.

Pawleys Island is character-driven and the plot was rather trite. Frank's characters were actually caricatures--exaggerated representations of southern individuals. Abigail Thurmond gave up her law practice after two personal tragedies, and now spends her days on Pawleys Island playing golf, tennis and socializing with Huey Valentine. Valentine is a gay art gallery owner (think Nathan Lane) whose family owns a plantation on Pawleys. Rebecca Simms shows up on Pawleys, trying to sell some of her artwork to Valentine. Of course her work is awesome, even though she doesn't appear to be trained and has never sold anything before. Her husband, Nat Simms, is perhaps one of the most evil, self-centered but stupid characters that ever appeared in a book. Valentine discovers that Rebecca has fled to Pawleys Island after her husband gets custody of their kids and their Charleston house when they separated. Valentine and Thurmond take it upon themselves to stand up for Rebecca and win back her children and her home. How this plays out is totally predictable and unbelievable.

One of the best things about Pawleys Island is that Frank has a true love of the South Carolina low country that shines through in her books. This is true of Pawleys Island and is one feature that saves this book.

Pawleys Island isn't Frank's best effort. But if you're looking for something fluffy while on vacation, it's not too bad.

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