In Search of Rhett Butler
by Sharron Haynes
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Author: Sharron HaynesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03-16
ISBN: 0595334857
Number of pages: 356
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
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- ISBN13: 9780595334858
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of In Search of Rhett Butler
Book Review: I can't recommend this book
Summary: 2 Stars
This book was highly recommended by a couple of other people. I suspect that they were friends or relatives of the author. Aside from the fact that it's hard for me to imagine that this is one of the best books anyone has ever read, some of these reviewers have not reviewed *any* other books.
One thing to be aware of is that this book was published by iUniverse [...], which is a "self publishing company." Normally I try to avoid such books, but in this case I decided to give the book a chance. After all, other reviewers had rated it highly. I realized very early on that it was an amateurish effort, but told myself that the story might still be worthwhile. I was disappointed.
The writing style was a bit awkward. One example is the sentence "Scarlett, in her blood-red velvet suit, the one Tessa insisted she have in spite of Scarlett's protests, looked down at her small blonde mother, standing a head shorter than herself, and understated in her new wool wedding suit the shade of pink satin toe shoes." The dialogue is often either stilted and/or melodramatic.
The timeline is also very confusing. While we are told what date many segments begin on, we often suddenly find a reference to something that evidently happened months or years previously that wasn't mentioned, and then the author will go back and fill in the details. It isn't clear why these events aren't just related sequentially.
These things are distracting, but they could have been overlooked if the characters had been well developed. Unfortunately, that was not the case. The characters were not convincing, and their behavior was often inconsistent or even unbelievable.
I did give this book a 2 instead of a 1 just because it could have been worse. I did think that the author was trying to deliver more than a formula story, and to share her insights. However, I cannot recommend the book. At the very least, it needs a lot of editing.
Summary of In Search of Rhett Butler
What typical Southern girl who grew up in the decades of the 40?s and 50?s hadn?t wanted to be Scarlett O?Hara ? especially if she happened to be the namesake of that character? Born on the very day and at the precise time Gone With the Wind premiered in Atlanta, Scarlett Harwood?s destiny had simply collided with the stars, or so went the thinking of her dreamy-eyed, melodramatic young mother whose address was Cloud Nine.It was on her fifteenth birthday that Scarlett Harwood finally saw the movie from which her name had come. From the moment Vivien Leigh?s character materialized on the screen until the credits rolled, the girl was mesmerized, dumbstruck by the twinship she saw between herself and that young belle. It felt to her like someone had crawled inside her head, excised her brain, and planted it in the head of Scarlett O?Hara. She left the theatre that day still dabbing her tears, convinced that she was the reincarnation of the heroine ? with one exception. She was smarter. She would never repeat O?Hara?s mistakes. Never.
Neither would she repeat those of her mother, Tessa. She would get it right. Unlike both Scarlett O?Hara and Tessa, once she found her perfect man, she would never let him go.
That was the plan.
Then came Jacob Stevenson.
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