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Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As “Mrs. Ro Grandee” she’s trapped in a marriage that’s thick with like and sick with abuse. Her right self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting “Ro” make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her spouse and inside by her ex- self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy—one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose’s gorgeous, abusive spouse is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first.
Hot-blooded Rose Mae escapes from under Ro’s perky compliance and emerges with a gun and a plot to beat the hand she’s been dealt. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti and behind paintings, Rose and her dog Gretel set out from Amarillo, TX back to her hometown of Fruiton, AL, and then on to California, finding a host of family tree secrets as she goes. Running for her life, she realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate—death by marriage—and become a girl who is strong enough to save herself from the one who likes her best.
BACKSEAT SAINTS will dazzle readers with a fresh and heartwrenching portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to right the wrongs she’s made, and how far a daughter will go to escape the demands of forgiveness. With the seed of a minor character from her well loved best-seller, GODS IN ALABAMA, Jackson has built a whole new tale full of her trademark sly wit, endearingly off-kilter characters, and utterly riveting plot twists.
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On the surface, this book, which is a companion piece to the leader’s Gods in Alabama, is another rehashing of poor southern womanhood gathering scars from parental abuse and marrying a man who will dish out more of the same so she can rise about all victorious. But there is a twist. Rose Mae Lolley sees herself as a nesting doll, nested inside a another persona she calls Ro Grandee (her married name). Her spouse Thom is also hurt by his overbearing father, and the facts that they are both employed in the family tree business (does it have to be guns?), and live in a house financed by a wedding present feeds his insecurities. Together, they make a self destructive pair, asking for punishment and getting it, using their shortcomings as excuses for irrational behavior. This is an appealing premise — building the abusive spouse nearly a sympathetic figure, but the tale goes off the rails to some extent later on and lacking giving more away, I’ll only say that the payoff is less than satisfactory.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
There were parts of this book that I really loved. I had a tough time figuring who was Rose, Ro or Ivy at the outset, but I eventually got them straight. This was a honestly straightforward tale of domestic abuse which was a bit disturbing at times. The characters were all blandly appealing and the mother, Claire, although not very likeable was at least multi-dimensional. I loved the ending of the book. I did not like this book nearly as much as I loved GODS IN ALABAMA. I appreciated all the references to the Saints, but I wanted to learn more about what each Saint really did. I cannot recommend this book highly, but if you are able to find it at the library or at a garage sale, go yet to be and pick it up. Otherwise, skip it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I loved Gods In Alabama, Jackson’s first book, and she is to some extent of a “local” leader in my neck of the woods (Birmingham, Alabama). But this one was a small disappointing. I don’t reflect Jackson wants us to like her characters–we’re supposed to see them as the highly flawed individuals that they are, but I really need to like a name, a small bit, especially the main character who is telling the tale. Rose Mae Lolley, aka Ro Grandee, is an abused woman, who learns right at the start of the novel that her spouse will kill her or she will kill him…and she learns this from a “gypsy chance teller” at the airport who just happens to be her mother. Sound weird? It was, and more than a small disconcerting.
I never really felt comfortable “in” this novel, and it reads more like a war novel. The domestic abuse this woman suffers at the hands of her proud spouse (as well as his horrid family tree’s emotional abuse of her) is horrendous, but sorry to say, Ro seems to thrive on it in some way. Ro also refers to herself in the third person all the time, by her different names and their accompanying personalities and by the end of the book, I was just tired of that small convention.She is very hyper aware of her the abusive situations she’s been in all her life, and although she is very intelligent and logical, Jackson makes it hard to judge she suffers from the same Stockholm Syndrome type syndrome that many abused women do seem to embrace.
The end of this one is a shocker, Jackson is pretty excellent with an ending (The Girl Who Stopped Swimming), and whether or not the reader will want to embrace the end or reject it is pretty much going to be a crap shoot. I reflect most people will either like this one or despise it. I will not be re-reading this one, and I felt pretty tired by the end of the tale. Jackson is an incredible writer, I just feel her tales have characters with major flaws that makes them too hard to judge.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This tale is about abusive men and the women who place up with it.
Although the characters are well written, I establish the tale very depressing!
It’s about a woman abandoned by her mother when she was a child because her spouse had a habit of beating her, the child then was beaten by her father, she grew up to be a gorgeous woman, married a very sexy and extremely abusive spouse who place her into the hospital several times! She’s worried to place him as he will kill her. Besides the sex is fantastic!
She meets a gypsy in the airport who reads the tarot cards for her and tells her that she must kill her spouse before he kills her.
The tale goes on from there. I had a hard time reading this book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book was very appealing to me. I will confess to not liking it as much as Jackson’s previous books, but this may be because of the theme matter: spousal abuse. I have not read much, fiction or nonfiction, on the theme, but it seemed to me that Jackson did a excellent job portraying the abusive relationship. How the spouse was a had such different faces and how he could turn so quickly, how Ro could still like him despite the fact that he abused her. I thought the episode in the woods illustrated this well.
I had a hard time with additional aspects of this book, mainly once the gypsy is introduced and the whimsical turn the book seems to take to start Ro on her journey. I kind of lost interest at this point. I also felt a small unfulfilled by some of the plot points that were brought up but not resolved. I feel as though not the same time and care was agreed to the second half of the book as the buildup.***Just realized that if you read her first book, “Gods in Alabama,” a lot of blanks are filled in. Very clean way of doing things really.***
I have to say that if this was the first book of Jackson’s I had read I would not be interested in pursuing her as an leader, but since I have liked additional books, I’m willing to give her a second chance.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5