Looking Back - The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LaBlanc

Looking Back... In an effort to transfer my book journal entries over to this blog, I'm going to attempt to post (in chronological order) an entry every Friday. I may or may not add extra commentary to what I jotted down in these journals.

The Scandalous Summer of Sisy LeBlanc by Loraine Despres

Fiction

2001 William Morrow

Finished in November 2001

Rating: 2/5 (OK)

Publisher's Blurb:

It's a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, wondering -- half seriously -- if she could kill herself with aspirins and Coca-Cola. She's been living in stifling old Gentry since the day she was born and trapped in a sham of a marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc since she was only seventeen. In short, she's fed up, restless, and ready for an adventure. Sissy just never imagined temptation would come into her life that breathless summer day as she sat smoking on her porch swing. For although she may have been fixated on the taut muscles of the lineman shimmying down the telephone pole across the street, she hadn't allowed herself to imagine that he'd be none other than her high school sweetheart, Parker Davidson, who left town fourteen years before without so much as a wave good-bye. But suddenly, here he is, leaning in for a kiss that will stir up more excitement than Sissy could ever have imagined...

My Original Thoughts (2001):

Picked this book up for its cover. I thought it was going to be another Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, but I was wrong! An easy read, but I spent the entire time wondering why I kept reading it. Don't recommend!

My Current Thoughts:

I'm glad I no longer feel compelled to finish a book I'm not enjoying.