Shipping Sharon
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REVIEW BY DAVID G. LAGRAFF
Veteran author Daisy Dexter Dobbs cooks up a delightful comedy when a small town beauty plots the perfect revenge on her cheating, no-good ex-husband. Like her previous best-selling e-book, Jezebel and the Egghead, this screwball romantic romp is both wickedly funny and playfully sexy. Maisy Morganfield endured 10 years of abuse from her cheating husband, but when she turned into a chocoholic and got fat, John dumped her for the anorexic Sharon Chaney. And in this small town where they're bound to see each other every day, Sharon and Maisy share the same kind of cordiality Ariel Sharon likely enjoys with Yasser Arafat. On a quest for revenge, Maisy diets herself back from blimp city and now resembles Jayne Mansfield. The rest of her plan to finish John off is simple. She's going to buy a pushup bra, rent a young hunk and parade past her ex-husband in an obscenely low-cut blouse. But before Maisy can unleash her lethal mixture of desire, jealousy and frustration, the plan is ruined. John, having a bad heart to begin with, meets a most untimely demise. While shaking her fist over the coffin, Maisy meets Keller Chaney, a dream hunk who owns a winery, travels in limousines and finds himself overpoweringly attracted to this small-town girl with an awesome bod. There's just one problem. He's the brother of Maisy's arch-enemy, Sharon Chaney, and suddenly we're back to that revenge thing again. The plot against her ex-hubby having been foiled and Maisy still needing revenge in the worst way, what could be better than to exact that revenge on her remaining worst enemy? Things would be perfect, and I mean absolutely perfect, if Sharon Chaney weren't around. Which is where Shipping Sharon starts in earnest. How to get rid of Sharon? Permanently. With a sure pen, interesting supporting characters, a revealing glimpse into small town America and a plot worthy of Hitchcock, author Daisy Dexter Dobbs plunges us into an energetic and delightful farce where the locals toil mightily over their passions, and the revenge is as sweet as chocolate. Dobbs has performed a neat trick and produced a work of serious fiction in popular romantic comedy form. Anyone who has ever struggled between desire and food will find ample comfort, humor and solicitude in these pages. So get yourself a big box of chocolate, curl up in front of your e-reader and prepare to have a blast. Reviewer David G. LaGraff is a California e-book novelist with more than six books to his credit. His own modern romantic thrillers, essays, novelettes and adventure stories are available at Wordbeams.
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