Peggy Webb
Author of Elvis and the Dearly Departed
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Works by Peggy Webb
Elvis and the Buried Brides [with bonus short story: 'Elvis and the Deadly Love Letters'] (2015) 7 copies
Jack Loves Callie Tender (A Southern Cousins Mystery prequel, companion guide and cookbook) (2013) 7 copies
The Rules of Engagement (The Goddess Trap / An Unlikely Affair / I Do and So Does the Gorilla) (2017) 1 copy
Risky Brides Bundle (8-in-1) — Author — 1 copy
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- Other names
- Hussey, Elaine
Michaels, Anna - Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lee County, Mississippi, USA
- Occupations
- lecturer
author - Short biography
- Peggy Webb is the bestselling author of more than sixty novels. A former adjunct lecturer at Mississippi State University, she has won numerous writing awards, composes blues songs on her vintage baby grand and shares her home in Tupelo, Mississippi, with her chocolate Lab and a quirky muse who channels Elvis.
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This was quite a pleasant novel but the similarities to Titanic were massive to the point it felt like half the novel was borrowed. The reference to Christmas was quite tentative too, in short it was a bit like reading a novel when I knew what was going to happen and there was no real feel good Christmas vibe.
The jacket blurb made it sound like this would be good, but I ended up feeling like I ate something sickly sweet. This white woman is grieving over her husband's death so she takes on a 'project' of helping a dying Black woman, Betty Jewell. They become friends & she learns Betty Jewell has a child by the white woman's husband. The whole situation seems artificial.
Part of the story is told by the dying woman's daughter, Billie, who is afraid of her mother's pending death. She is tough, and has her hopes on being rescued by her mother's ex-husband. The book's end glosses over Billie's pain & makes us believe she will grow up happy and secure.
Another part I hate is that the only way Betty Jewell can save her daughter from her ex-husband's grasp is by cutting him down, dissing him. OK, I get that he has a history of lying to her, and of drug addiction. But he's been out of touch for >10 years and is now trying to do better. Couldn't she have just told him the truth about who Billie's father was? How come he didn't figure it out as soon as he saw her?… (more)
Part of the story is told by the dying woman's daughter, Billie, who is afraid of her mother's pending death. She is tough, and has her hopes on being rescued by her mother's ex-husband. The book's end glosses over Billie's pain & makes us believe she will grow up happy and secure.
Another part I hate is that the only way Betty Jewell can save her daughter from her ex-husband's grasp is by cutting him down, dissing him. OK, I get that he has a history of lying to her, and of drug addiction. But he's been out of touch for >10 years and is now trying to do better. Couldn't she have just told him the truth about who Billie's father was? How come he didn't figure it out as soon as he saw her?… (more)
Maybe it was the cover...maybe the title...who knows but now I'm reading it! About as far away from my fav genre's....j-ya, fantasy....but enjoying it!
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yet the predictable plot faltered even before the hurricane.
Despite Sis responsibly holding the family together, she remains a major downer with
her determination to be unhappy attitude which lasts almost to the end of the book.
Sweet Mama, Beulah, and their Cafe of welcome patrons were lovely - wish for the Amen Cobbler Recipe
as Andy's Rocket unpredictably takes off!