On My Bedside {Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes} + A Winner

I’m emerging from a dry spell on my reading, what with the six books I checked out from the library last week.  It’s as if I’m expecting there to be a twenty-fifth hour added to the day.  Anyhoo, being snow bound last week, I read Unseen – the latest page turner in Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent Series – and Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes by Cathy Holton.  I loved the Southern town of Ithaca and marveled many times at its similarity to Savannah.  The characters were intriguing and the story was engaging.  It wasn’t a page turner, but it was a good, easy, mindless read – perfect for a beach week or snow day.  I’ll definitely continue the series!     Goodreads says:  Eadie Boone is no shrinking violet. An artist and former beauty queen who married into one of the first families of Ithaca, Georgia, she tackles everything with gusto and flair. But tailing her wayward husband proves to be, well, an exasperating chore. If only Trevor would just see the light, dump his twenty-two-year-old hussy, and return home, Eadie’s creative energy could be put to better use. Now all she has to do is convince him.  Nita Broadwell, a good Southern girl from a good Southern family, is jolted out of complacency when she discovers condoms in her husband’s shirt pocket (“Maybe he’d found them on the ground and picked them up”). Between clinging to denial and dodging her overbearing mother-in-law, Nita is also trying to break her addiction to steamy bodice-ripper novels. Only now it appears she’s authoring her own real-life romance tale with a hunky handyman thirteen years her junior.  Lavonne Zibolsky–a transplanted Yankee, bless her heart–is saddled with planning the annual Broadwell & Boone law firm party. That and her lackluster marriage have her seeking solace in the contents of her refrigerator. If she could just put down the Rocky Road ice cream and peach pie, she might get around to finding a caterer, dropping sixty pounds, and figuring out how to fall in love with her husband again. Not necessarily in that order.  Bonded by years of friendship, these three women discover what else they have in common: lying, cheating spouses. So they heed their collective betrayals as a wake-up call and band together to exact sweet revenge. The take-charge trio will see to it that the punishment is just, exquisitely humiliating, and downright hilarious.  Cathy Holton’s debut novel is a delicious yarn of friendship and marriage, secrets and retribution, and how nothing stays hidden for long. Against a Southern backdrop of gentility and decorum, Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes dares to abandon Junior League social graces in ways that would make even Scarlett O’Hara blush.   As always, let me know what’s on YOUR bedside!!  I mean, not that I have much more room on mine at the time :-) xoxo   See all of my reads here Follow me on goodreads here   PS. The winner of my Minnie Koozie giveaway is PrettyLuckyMama!!  Congrats – you will just adore these cuties!  Shoot me an email and I’ll hook you up with HKL Designs.