Monday, February 4, 2008

Mermaids in the Basement - Michael Lee West

Mermaids in the Basement is the tale of Renata DeChavannes a Hollywood screen writer who becomes overwhelmed trying to deal with the death of her mother and the supposed cheating of her long time boyfriend and work partner which is being documented by paparazzi while he is on assignment in Ireland. After an accidental hair cutting she books a flight to Alabama to stay with her grandmother Honora DeChavannes. While there she has a fight with her soon to be new stepmother, is accused of putting her into a concussion, and spends many hours drinking while be brought up to speed on what really went wrong in her parents marriage.


I'm going to move to a five star scale because it just makes more sense.

On the Five Star Scale *****

Naughty Bits (****) - This book is funny but really crass and after a while just wasn't worth it to me.

Readability (****) - 304 pages. Beach reading.

Final notes (**) - You know this book started out and easy read and funny but there was a lot of crude humor.

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