Miss Julia Meets Her Match

Miss Julia is back in the 5th book of this charming series about a Southern lady of a certain age and her household. This time practically the entire town joins Miss Julia in her favorite “exercise” – jumping to conclusions. From Hazel Marie to Pastor Ledbetter and his wife Emma Sue everyone is ready to act on suspicions.

Of course there is some real drama going on as well. An itinerant “pastor” has convinced Miss Julia to lease him some land just outside town so he can build a “Walk Where Jesus Walked” theme park. He seems to be backed by a rather oily door-to-door salesman with a private jet. Before Miss Julia can get to the bottom of this, she gets embroiled in several closer-to-home scandals, including the return of show more her friend’s prodigal son, back home from ten years in New York, now calling himself Tonya and wearing designer dresses. And Lillian’s five-year-old granddaughter has come for an extended stay. So, Miss Julia has her hands full!

Not to mention that Sam will not stop asking her to marry him and she is just not ready to say yes. At least not until she discovers that SHE is the subject of unfounded rumors of “unseemly behavior.” So, she decides to give them something to talk about and asks Sam to get her a fake ring that will stop tongues wagging. He couldn’t be happier to comply and comes up with a real whopper!

I love this series. It’s like spending time with old friends you haven’t seen in a while and relishing in all the news and gossip over a nice glass of lemonade (perhaps fortified with a little extra something). show less

Another good Miss Julia book. This one gets to me a little bit because it seems that many of the church going people are passing judgement and talking about everyone's sins. Miss Julia is super worried that the past sins of her late husband will come out and hurt Little Lloyd that she goes to extremes to prevent it from happening. I have problems with true Christians being so self-righteous and nonforgiving. True Christians do not act that way. Still, this is a good entertaining read.

Miss Julia is at it again, battling with her Pastor, fighting the gossip mill in her small town North Carolina and working to keep her non-traditional "family" safe and happy.

I loved the whole gender change issue as it was handled here, the world's best advice was just come out and hold your head up high, ignore the gossip and eventually it will go away.

Of course, Miss Julia has to keep some of her problems to herself so that eventually Mr. Sam can come to the rescue. Sometimes that irritates me but for this one I at least understood the motives.

Still more to read in this series.

This is just a delightful series. Ann Ross presents wonderful pictures of all kinds of characters, but it's hard not to love Miss Julia, the describer in charge!!

For entertainment value, I would give it five stars. However there were parts of the book which saddened me.

For entertainment value, I would give it five stars. However there were parts of the book which saddened me.

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