Sandra Chastain
Author of Mossy Creek
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Sandra Chastain also writes as Jenna Darcy and Allie Jordan.
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Works by Sandra Chastain
Associated Works
My Guardian Angel (Almost An Angel / Guardian of the Heart / Angel on My Shoulder / Saving Celeste / The Trouble With Angels) (1995) — Contributor — 46 copies
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- Legal name
- Chastain, Sandra
- Other names
- Chastain, Sandra
Darcy, Jenna
Jordan, Allie - Birthdate
- 1936
- Gender
- female
- Short biography
- Sandra Chastain was born on 1936 in Wadley, Georgia, 100 miles northwest of Savannah. As a little girl, she created fantasy lives for her paper dolls, and then she discovered Nancy Drew. Sandra wrote her first novel with a friend when she was 10 years old, The Mystery of the Green Necklace. Some four decades later, when her three daughters had gone off on their own, she returned to writing and was soon busy with writing, in addition to working with her husband in their veterinary practice in Smyrna, Georgia. Before long she was writing full time.
Published since 1988, she writes historical novels for Bantam, short contemporary romances for Harlequin, and southern women's fiction for Bellebooks. To date, she has produced over 50 works, including her first fairy tale, The Tiniest Fairy In the Kingdom, published by Bellebooks. She writes under pennames Jenna Darcy and Allie Jordan as well as in her own name. Sandra has won many honors and recognitions from her industry. - Birthplace
- Wadley, Georgia, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Sandra Chastain also writes as Jenna Darcy and Allie Jordan.
- Associated Place (for map)
- Georgia, USA
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Again I loved Sandra Chastain's book.
Her story is light, but it has content.
The characters engage the reader from the first page. With dynamic dialogues and a sense of humor.
Loved Aunt Dorothea and her "shot" about lemons and lemonade.
The description of the landscape is like a dream, and you can see that the author is a fan of old movies, saying some of their titles and actors.
The cover is sexy, like the book, but I wouldn't classify it as a strong erotic, just sexy.
The pace of the story is show more great.
Positive point: the dialogue, the characters. Laughs a lot in various scenes.
Negative point: the book is small. I would love to read a bit more ...
Super recommend to my friends.
5 STARS!! show less
Her story is light, but it has content.
The characters engage the reader from the first page. With dynamic dialogues and a sense of humor.
Loved Aunt Dorothea and her "shot" about lemons and lemonade.
The description of the landscape is like a dream, and you can see that the author is a fan of old movies, saying some of their titles and actors.
The cover is sexy, like the book, but I wouldn't classify it as a strong erotic, just sexy.
The pace of the story is show more great.
Positive point: the dialogue, the characters. Laughs a lot in various scenes.
Negative point: the book is small. I would love to read a bit more ...
Super recommend to my friends.
5 STARS!! show less
This was just a really awkward book. The writing style was incredibly disjointed. For instance, a character would describe a scene or a person we had met in a way that would not make sense considering the event/person we had been introduced to. This happened continuously throughout the book. Tyler keeps referencing the "joy" that Lacey has brought into his life, but I honestly never saw an example of this. Lacey once says that Tyler and Lacey's mother are kindred spirits, a remark that was show more so out of the blue that I had to go back and read the previous scene to try and discern where she had gotten that idea from. I never figured it out. Those are just a few examples I highlighted, there were more that I just passed over, especially closer to the end.
The dialog was unbelievably over-the-top, an unrealistic idea of how "southerners" speak. We had everything from multiple uses of "Lordy", to "Whahoo", to "Sweet Suffering Je-housh-a-phat" and "Horsefeathers". Every time a character used that over-exaggerated speech I literally rolled my eyes. I live in the Deep South, and I have never met anyone speak like these people did.
Every single character felt like a caricature, and not just the "goofy" side characters that were in Lacey's "family". Add to that Tyler and Lacey not sitting down to get to know each other until well after the midway point of the book, and only then touching on the subject of Tyler having been married to Callie, Lacey's best friend... Yeah.
I really wanted to like this book because of the set-up, but the whole thing was just awkward.
Note: This book is a repub from 1988, which explains why Tyler can't call Lacey when her family's phone service is cut off. No cell phones.
ARC courtesy of Random House Publishing Group - Loveswept, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. show less
The dialog was unbelievably over-the-top, an unrealistic idea of how "southerners" speak. We had everything from multiple uses of "Lordy", to "Whahoo", to "Sweet Suffering Je-housh-a-phat" and "Horsefeathers". Every time a character used that over-exaggerated speech I literally rolled my eyes. I live in the Deep South, and I have never met anyone speak like these people did.
Every single character felt like a caricature, and not just the "goofy" side characters that were in Lacey's "family". Add to that Tyler and Lacey not sitting down to get to know each other until well after the midway point of the book, and only then touching on the subject of Tyler having been married to Callie, Lacey's best friend... Yeah.
I really wanted to like this book because of the set-up, but the whole thing was just awkward.
Note: This book is a repub from 1988, which explains why Tyler can't call Lacey when her family's phone service is cut off. No cell phones.
ARC courtesy of Random House Publishing Group - Loveswept, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. show less
Welcome to Mossy Creek, Georgia. A quaint little town that "ain't goin' nowhere and don't want to."
Several authors contribute short stories which introduces us to the town of Mossy Creek, Georgia and all its quirky residents, my favorite being Ida Hamilton Walker, Mayor of Mossy Creek, heir to the Hamilton legacy, and nemesis of her nephew, Governor Ham Bigalow.
It's Mossy Creek vs. Bigalow (and Hamilton's vs. Bigalow's) with Mossy Creek managing to get the upper hand most of the time. show more Whether it's Ida shooting at the new Mossy Creek sign her nephew ordered placed across from her land, or members of her Foo Club dumping the new sign ordered by her nephew, on the State House lawn, Ida can keep you laughing.
Then there is Bob, the flying Chihuahua, Sandy Bottoms Crane (she saves Bob from becoming a hawk's dinner), or Sheriff Amos Royden, who is trying to live up to his father's legacy (and keep the Mayor in line and out of jail).
The book is great light reading when your brain can't handle a heavy, cry a river type novel. show less
Several authors contribute short stories which introduces us to the town of Mossy Creek, Georgia and all its quirky residents, my favorite being Ida Hamilton Walker, Mayor of Mossy Creek, heir to the Hamilton legacy, and nemesis of her nephew, Governor Ham Bigalow.
It's Mossy Creek vs. Bigalow (and Hamilton's vs. Bigalow's) with Mossy Creek managing to get the upper hand most of the time. show more Whether it's Ida shooting at the new Mossy Creek sign her nephew ordered placed across from her land, or members of her Foo Club dumping the new sign ordered by her nephew, on the State House lawn, Ida can keep you laughing.
Then there is Bob, the flying Chihuahua, Sandy Bottoms Crane (she saves Bob from becoming a hawk's dinner), or Sheriff Amos Royden, who is trying to live up to his father's legacy (and keep the Mayor in line and out of jail).
The book is great light reading when your brain can't handle a heavy, cry a river type novel. show less
This book is full of short stories that take place in the South and yes, that is a capital s!!). If you were born and raised Southern these stories will make you chuckle. If you are from 'off' then you probably won't get it.
I found the stories funny and delightful. Especially the one entitled "Y'all Come" by Martha Crockett. Even those that have only been passing through will recognize that mantra of the South. What is so funny is, it reminds me of something that happened when I was little show more and visiting my grandparents down at the Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina border, except down in that neck of the woods the phrase was "Yuns come!" "The Wart Witch" by Susan Goggins brought back memories of travelling up to Hells Holler to visit some distant kin, and "Grandma's Cupboard" could have been written about my maternal grandmother. Anyone with an ounce of South in them will love this book. show less
I found the stories funny and delightful. Especially the one entitled "Y'all Come" by Martha Crockett. Even those that have only been passing through will recognize that mantra of the South. What is so funny is, it reminds me of something that happened when I was little show more and visiting my grandparents down at the Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina border, except down in that neck of the woods the phrase was "Yuns come!" "The Wart Witch" by Susan Goggins brought back memories of travelling up to Hells Holler to visit some distant kin, and "Grandma's Cupboard" could have been written about my maternal grandmother. Anyone with an ounce of South in them will love this book. show less
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