beginners_luck

Just got finished reading "Beginner's Luck" by Laura Pedersen. It's an interesting read with original plot twists of a young girl, Hallie (sixteen), in her teenage-mid-life-crisis broke from gambling her savings away at the race track in hopes of scoring big to afford that car she so desperately wants, giving her the chance to leave her seven family household, with one in her mother's burner, heading for the big lights of LA. She doesn't actually get there though.

Finding a flyer for a twelve dollar an hour groundskeeper job she ends up in the house of a very eccentric family (I'll leave that for you to discover), droping out of school, accused of stealing two thousand dollars, and kicked out of the city poker game.

If you're looking for a good read that has bundle of giggles, than this is a must read by a very talented writer (and kinda' sexy too). It's not the best in visual narration but it keeps you reading wondering just what is going to happen next. I put it up there with Christopher Moore and Tim Sandlin style though Sandlin is more visual in with his narration. This, to me is something of a talent that not many writers of today... I don't want to say possess... more of...hum? take the time to weave into their work showing the characters and physically moving them around.

It's worth the twelve bucks and a few nights company curled up in rose pedal guilt sipping on your favorite nightly beverage until Sleepy Man takes you away into dreams. That I assure you of.

I give it an eight out of ten. Check it out. It seems that there's a sequel to the novel that I've yet to find but I will most definitly be reading to see what crazy old bat Ollivia is protesting this time.

TTFN

Zymosius