I finished "Miss Julia Strikes Back" by Ann B. Ross. If one likes to read a well-written book just for fun, I suggest the "Miss Julia" series. With a lot of series, however, the car trains that follow the engine never quite seem to have enough steam to make it down the track by themselves.
When I read the first "Miss Julia" book I was so taken with the characters, I wanted to read more about them. And thus a series is born.
"Miss Julia Strikes Back" started off with some of the most colorful characters away on trips and Miss Julia beside herself with boredom -- ho hum -- so was I. The author quickly gets Miss Julia in a humorous, although impossible to accept, solution to her problems. With Miss Julia's fight to regain jewelry that was stolen, she finds and fleshes out new interesting characters.
I actually began to enjoy reading the book until the last 75 pages when I confess I skipped to the last chapter and gladly left Abbottsville, North Carolina to visit another day.
Miss Julia's first book an "A+"
Miss Julia Strikes Back a kindly "C+"
Respectfully,
Kathy
