Ain't She Sweet? by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Synopsis

In high school, Sugar Carey had reigned supreme. She alone had decided what or who was cool. Her spiral perm had been the perm against which all others were measured, and her opinion on which boys were acceptable to date the only one that counted. A beautiful, blonde - if not always benevolent - dictator, she had a reputation for being the wild child in her home town, the girl most likely to set the world on fire and leave a trail of destruction in her wake. When she left home she swore she'd never return. Only now, fifteen years and several husbands later, she's run out of money, luck, and options...But Sugar arrives back home to discover that everyone else is living her life. Her half-sister is married to Sugar's high school sweetheart, the teacher she schemed to get fired is now a successful novelist and owns her old house. She also discovers that people have long memories - especially where Sugar is concerned...

Review

One of the best contemporary romance novels I've read so far. I enjoyed this book immensely.The story is about a former popular high school girl who has returned to her hometown with no money and three failed marriages. "Sugar Beth" is in desperate need of money, and she's back in town to dig out a valuable painting that she inherited from her deceased aunt.Once a high school sweetheart, who was rich, popular, gorgeous and at times being mean to her fellow schoolmates especially her stepsister is now fallen off the social ladder and now everything Is coming to bite her back in the butt. Her once high school boyfriend has married her stepsister (who sugar beth hates by the way) is living the life she dreamed. And what's worst? Her old high school besties have abandoned her.The English teacher Mr.Colin Byrne, whose career she ended by falsely accusing him of sexual assault is dead set on revenge. Need I say more...I'm already biting my nails. But don't worry, I swear it has a happy ending.

“They reached the carriage house. When she turned the knob, he got all critical again. “Why isn’t this door locked?”“It’s Parrish. There’s not much point.”“We have crime here, just as any other place does. Keep this door locked from now on.”“Like that’s going to stop you. All you’d have to do is give it one good kick, and – ““Not from me, you ninny!”“I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but if they find my body, you’re the one with the biggest grudge.”“It’s impossible to hold a rational conversation with you.” ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

Sugar Beth endures all kinds of humiliation thrown at her. Which she kind of deserves because she was little mean to some of the people in her town. She knows she screwed up and now she is willing to apologize and makes amends. There's this dinner party chapter on which sugar beth is the waitress for her high school friends. Where they all team up against her. I just can't... I was so modified for sugar beth.

“She wasn’t going to let them make her cry. She’d cried enough self-pitying tears in her life to drown a goat, and all it had gotten her was a big fat nothing. She made herself take a deep breath, but it didn’t help break the traffic jam in her throat. Might as well call a spade a spade. That traffic jam came from shame. There was a big difference between knowing people still hated your guts and seeing it in their faces.” ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

She is grown from the mean girl to a strong determined woman. Who is not afraid to admit the wrongs she has done to her family and friends. What I loved about her is sh's rebellious and most of all courageous even when people humiliated her she ket her head high. And moved on with the past. Life lesson doesn't hold onto your past.

“We all have a lot of rubbish in our pasts. At some point, we need to step over the piles and get on with it.” ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips such a marvelous writer who can wield a story to memorize you. This is a pageturner. It is highly entertaining, gripping, nerve-racking, romantic and lots of comedy read. Ratings 5/5 

I hope you enjoyed the review.

 

Until next time,

Love 

Zo