{"id":81,"date":"2008-06-09T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/sharpe-writing\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T19:55:14","slug":"sharpe-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/sharpe-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpe Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently finished Isabel Sharpe’s<\/a> WOMEN ON THE EDGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKTHROUGH<\/a>. Thanks to my pal Jamie Sobrato<\/a> for talking up Isabel’s first women’s fiction release on her blog last year, because I loved this book (yes, I’m ashamed to admit it can take me a year or longer to buy and read a book that’s on my Must Buy list). WOMEN ON THE EDGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKTHROUGH<\/font><\/strong> is like a slice of Desperate Housewives on paper. Hmm, I guess that sounds wonderful if, like me, you love Desperate Housewives. If you don’t dig the ladies of Wisteria Lane, try WOMEN<\/strong>, anyway. After all, I’m recommending it. What more do you need?<\/p>\n

Because I bought this book based on Jamie’s recommendation and because I’m familiar \"sharpe_edge.jpg\"with Isabel’s category romance career, I bought it during an Amazon binge without reading the back cover copy. From the cover, I assumed it was a murder mystery, but it isn’t. As I read, I realized the cover reflects more of a “Mother’s Little Helper”<\/a> vibe, which suits the story to a tee. Plus, well, I don’t want to give away the plot, but the red carpet on the cover is<\/em> symbolic.<\/p>\n

Back cover copy:<\/p>\n

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Welcome to Kettle, Wisconsin, a town where everyone knows nothing bad ever happens.<\/p>\n

Enter Lorelei Taylor\u2014notorious, glamorous, and hot off a not-guilty murder verdict that stunned the nation. To the women of Kettle, bad things seem suddenly inevitable . . .<\/p>\n

Sarah Gilchrist<\/em>\u2014A perfect house and garden can’t quite make up for a marriage that’s a wreck. Sarah is determined to rise above her opinion of Kettle’s dreadful newcomer and give her a perfect welcome. But in the face of Lorelei’s outrageous provocations, Sarah’s control starts to unravel.<\/p>\n

Erin Hall<\/em>\u2014What her husband does to her behind closed doors stays hidden. But Lorelei’s acquittal gives Erin hope for the first time. Convinced Lorelei did kill her abusive lover . . . and got away with it, Erin thinks she may have some power after all.<\/p>\n

Lorelei Taylor<\/em>\u2014In Lorelei’s eyes, peaceful, heavenly Kettle could not look any more like hell. She vows to shake up the town\u2014smug, priggish Sarah; mousy, downtrodden Erin; and while she’s at it, her widowed neighbor, Mike. Except the harder she shakes, the more the shake-up is happening to her.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the only thing women on the edge need . . . is a push.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We won’t get into who pushes whom. Nope, you have to read the book to find out.<\/p>\n

I notice on Isabel’s website<\/a> that her second women’s fiction release, AS GOOD AS IT GOT<\/strong>, is also now available. You can bet it’s going on my Must Buy list. And this time it won’t take me a year to read it. (She says bravely).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently finished Isabel Sharpe’s WOMEN ON THE EDGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKTHROUGH. Thanks to my pal Jamie Sobrato for talking up Isabel’s first women’s fiction release on her blog last year, because I loved this book (yes, I’m ashamed to admit it can take me a year or longer to buy and read a… Continue reading Sharpe Writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-authors","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}