Save a Truck Ride a Redneck

Molly Harper

PocketStar

October 16, 2017

Molly Harper brings her signature “clever humor, snark, silliness, and endearing protagonists” (Booklist) to the charming small town of Lake Sackett, Georgia with the new Southern Eclectic series.

Carl and Marianne were high school sweethearts, loving the way only teenagers can—with no thought to logic or pride, just a bone-headed, optimistic frenzy of unicorns and hormones. That was all they needed. Or so Carl thought.
Scared of being stuck in Lake Sackett, Georgia, like so many of her friends—without a real shot at a future or achieving her own dreams—Marianne panicked and bolted to college after stomping Carl’s heart into the high grass. But when she returns to Lake Sackett for the summer with her family after years away, she and Carl are drawn together like moths to a flame. As they rekindle their old romance and remember what it was like to be in love, they have to wonder: is this, finally, their real chance at happiness?

SASCHA DARLINGTON’S REVIEW

It’s been years since I read a book by Molly Harper. But the names of authors who make me laugh OUT LOUD always stick with me so when I saw a new title with her name attached to it, I was on it.

Save a Truck Ride a Redneck has all of the quirk I expect from a Molly Harper novel and eccentric characters, but it also has a love for the small town lifestyle and the idiosyncrasies that go with it.

Marianne’s family who runs a funeral home/bait shop (yep, doesn’t that make you want to read it right there?) lives in a compound of sorts. Family is never far away. Carl, who is best friends with Marianne’s brother Duffy, is now pretty much a member of the family too.

Even though years have gone by, Marianne is still drawn to Carl; it’s reciprocated. In fact, this has one of the hottest scenes, rich with swoon and steam, without sex, that I have read in a long time.

The only drawback that I found with Save a Truck Ride a Redneck is that it’s a novella so I didn’t get to spend as much time with Marianne and Carl (especially the delicious Carl) that I would like. However, Harper manages to put so much in this novella that I never felt cheated as far as a real story and characterization (except for wanting more Marianne and Carl!). Typically that’s my main complaint with many novellas, but I didn’t have it here.

Save a Truck Ride a Redneck falls under women’s fiction so for those of you who hang back from reading romances, you might want to give this a try. While there is some romance with Marianne and Carl, there is a lot of family and relationships and humor. If you need some quirk, snark, and humor, this might just do it for you.

Fun times!

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Save a Truck Ride a Redneck will be published on October 16, 2017. It’s available for pre-order. From Amazon: Save a Truck Ride a Redneck

rating: 

5 out of 5 butterflies