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The Watermelon Riot
Melissa Glisan
Red Rose Publishing
April 2008
ISBN#: 978-1-60435-141-5
Contemporary
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Synopsis:
What can be more boring than covering the local produce festival?
Reporter Scott Reneau's world changes forever when local history mixes with
Michelle Butler, the newsroom wallflower, to explode in an uprising of
emotions in The Watermelon Riot.
Old letters drew Scott Reneau from his high paying journalism career in
Portland Maine to the small southern town of Gallatin Arkansas. Now working
the news desk for a rural paper, he found himself demoted and again staring
at a pile of old letters.
Michelle Butler was a local girl from the top of her head to the soles of
her feet, but she'd been burned by big city dreams and men. When she decided
to take a chance on Scott and share her family's passionate history, she
hoped to catch the sexy reporter's eye, but her grandparents had other plans
in mind.
Will he be able to realize that there is more to local images?
Will he be able to fight the fire within him that the caramel colored beauty
erupts in him?
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SRR GRADE: B+
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After being demoted to reporting community events and
beauty pageants for a small newspaper in Arkansas for reporting an exposé on
the new County Commissioner, northern transplant, Scott Reneau, has been
assigned to cover the Thirty Second Annual Watermelon Festival. Reading
about the history that actually shows the Festival went back to the 1750's,
Scott wondered why the town, so steeped in preserving it's history, was only
celebrating the thirty-second. The answer to that question and questions he
had no clue he wanted answers for would be answered with the assistance of
the office wallflower, woman of mystery, and owner of blue-green eyes,
Michelle Butler. Could Michelle help Scott find out why there was a
Watermelon Riot at the 1927 Watermelon Jubilee and maybe cause another one
at this year's Festival?
Ms. Glisan's portrayal of life in a small southern town in The Watermelon
Riot was hysterically accurate. The attention she paid to detailing the talk
between Scott and Miss Augusta Argosy, a blue-haired lady, was so realistic
and vivid; I felt as though I was a library patron sitting a little too
close and hearing the entire conversation. I didn't have good nor bad
feelings about Scott until the end of the book then I had an epiphany of his
real character. Michelle on the other hand seemed as if the last thing she
wanted to do was draw attention to herself even though Scott made her feel
things that she swore she would never feel for another co-worker. This book
comes just in time for reading on a hot summer day while cooling off by
eating a ripe slice of watermelon.
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Shira |
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