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Title of Book: Savannah Comes Undone Click on the title in order to purchase your copy or view product details. By Denise Hildreth Savannah Comes Undone is a light hearted look at a southern girl coming of age. Savannah Phillips is just out of school and working her second week at the city’s paper covering human interest stories. Her mother, Victoria, former Miss Georgia United States of America, decides to make herself a human interest story once again, and the center of the town's attention. Vicky chains herself to a stone monument of the 10 Commandments, that resides outside the court house in the middle of the city, which has been ordered to be removed to prevent the mixing of church and state. Savannah, who is embarrassed by her mother’s debutant ways on a good day, is trying at all costs to avoid her mother’s center stage appearance. Vicky becomes surrounded by media covering the story and admiring activists camping in support of her protest. Steering clear of her mother makes Savannah run into a host of other characters including Joy, an old southern woman who often joins her on a park bench for lunch, despite never having any food of her own to share. She offers Savannah knowing insights to her own personality as well as the moral character of other individuals in the city. Joy becomes the voice of reason for Savannah as she is unable to see past her own insecurities about life to understand why others are acting the way they do, especially her mother. Also available for help is her best friend Paige, who helps Savannah scheme to take back her ex-boyfriend who is planning a wedding with his bride-to-be. As Savannah’s sights are set on the old beau, a new man at work is trying to be encouraging to Savannah in her new job while making accurate observations about her behaviors in her personal life. With mixed feelings about him, Savannah plays it safe by listening with one ear and watching from a distance. Savannah’s father, an elderly lady down the street, and a prosecuting attorney for the “monumental” case, all help Savannah come to realize just what her mother, and the monument she is chained to, mean to her and why. Savannah Comes Undone, is easy light reading. The reader would be well suited to have read the first novel by Denise Hildreth which introduces Savannah Phillips, titled Savannah from Savannah. There are many clued references to the previous novel and if you are from the South or enjoy southern lingo, you would be able to slide right into the characters conversations and feel right at home with the references Hildreth uses. I’m from the North, and quite enjoyed imagining how the characters might sound! There are a few moments where the readers own moral beliefs are brought to mind, despite this being the backdrop to the novel. Although the book is not in a series, Hildreth leaves her character Savannah in a new place in her life, which makes you wonder when the next novel will be written with Savannah in the title role. Given the opportunity I would pick up Hildreth’s “next in line” novel to Savannah Comes Undone. It was a perfect summer read! |