Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780143145547
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Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom.
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This is not so much a novel as it is a string of vignettes of CeeCee’s life with her mother and then the circle of women who take her in in Savannah. There’s no overall plot and no tension (which makes the reference to The Help kind of ridiculous). CeeCee’s crazy mother dies, she’s taken in by a kindly and wealthy fantastic-aunt in Savannah, and feels loved.
Characters are either wholly excellent or wholly terrible, and there are a number of blatant rip-offs (the sunglasses scene from Corinna, Corinna is reproduced openly, for one). The dialogue is regularly wooden and CeeCee veers from sounding like a child to an adult – it’s hard to tell from what age she’s telling this tale.
I did end it, but if I’d paid for it, I’d have been rather cross. The beginning is the best part; I’d recommend reading honestly far before you choose to buy it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I had high hopes for this book. I like Savannah and, having grown up in The South, I like Southern fiction. When the book arrived, the take in itself was a tipoff – the art looks reasonably a bit like “The Help” and immediately I wondered if the take in art was meant to somehow cynically manipulate us into thinking of this as a companion to that wonderful book.
You’ve probably already read this book before. Girl tends to sick “momma”. Dad is cheating, boozing loser and abandons family tree. Momma dies and girl moves to gorgeous Southern town, where we read about women sticking together, magnolia trees, and racial tension. But, the leader just skims the surface of each of these, and even an incident on Tybee Island is wrapped up mere pages later, very conveniently. CeeCee’s voice is anywhere from an 8 to a 30-year ancient depending on which page you’re reading. Overall you can’t help but marvel if the leader should have spent a small more time with her editor on this book.
And if the book takes off, it’s certainly destined to become a “chick flick.” I can’t remember one male character who is at all redeeming…. let’s see, boozing father, racist attacker on Tybee… And the female characters are one-dimensional stereotypes of Southern belles and eccentric ancient ladies. Nothing new here.
It’s a quick, simple read. The book reminds me of eating a bag of potato chips – mildly delightful but soon forgotten.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is a feel-excellent tale, with an intriquing beginning and a fairytale ending. Sorry to say it is so cliche-ridden and filled with repetitive phrases that it could be used as a model of terrible writing.
Some examples:
page 2 Just when I thought she’d…
page 28 Just when I was about to…
page 73 Just then…
page 93 Just as I…
page 96 Just as she…
page 97 Just then…
page 111 Just then…
page 119 Just then…
page 125 Just when…
page 134 Just then…
page 142 Just then…
page 158 Just as we…
page 159 Just as I…
page 184 Just when we…
page 213 Just then…
page 218 Just as I…
page 248 Just then…
page 259 Just when I thought…
page 262 Just then…
page 18 My stomach ongoing to churn…
page 35 My stomach dropped…
page 62 My stomach was tied in knots…
page 124 my stomach… in knots…
page 160 stomach was in knots…
page 200 My stomach churned…
page 289 my stomach tightened…
page 305 my stomach plummeted…
page 28 I took… deep breaths.
page 50 I took a deep breath…
page 83 I took a deep breath…
page 83 I caught my breath…
page 166 I took a deep breath…
page 200 I took a gulp of air…
page 247 I let out a breath…
page 249 I took a breath…
page 249 I took a deep breath…
page 253 I sucked in a breath…
page 303 I took a few deep breaths…
page 304 I took a deep breath…
You get the thought. I may seem obsessive about searching for all these examples, but they just leaped out at me, they are so egregious. There are also copious cliches, such as: knocked senseless, total strangers, numb with rage, my heart raced, weird as it sounds, flushed with delight, etc. If you like really terrible writing, you may delight in this book. Just the same, I can see how it could make a amusing, feel-excellent movie.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Reviews were excellent and I expected a tale line similar to Anne Siddons, perhaps. Tale lacked punch and humor. Excellent impression of the South for the timeline, but that’s about all it offered. Wish I would have gotten it from the library as a replacement for of buying it.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I reflect its a small over priced but it came to me when I needed a feel excellent book and it did just that.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5