Fun beach read. Of course I like most books with beach or lake in the title! Hollywood comes to small town on the Florida coast,and probems ensue. Not everyone in town is glad to have them invade. I enjoyed the characters,and some were really characters. Typical Mary Kay Andrews story ,for those of her fans.
'Beach Town' has a strong understructure that carries several plot lines.
One deals with the headaches of trying to manage a location shoot for a movie that -- even to the non-movie person -- shows signs of trouble from the very beginning. There's the too-famous-too-soon rapper making his film debut, the alcoholic script-writer floundering to produce a shootable script, the director with delusions of grandeur and dreams of an unlimited budget, not to mention missing port-a-potties and disgruntled locals.
And while location manager Greer Hennessy tries to keep all these plates spinning, she's also dodging her long-lost father who seems to want to re-connect, dickering for the rights to blow up a long-closed casino that holds treasured memories for many of the townspeople, and flirting cautiously with the sexy mayor.
There's nothing wrong with this good-hearted romance, and lots of backstage information about the myriad details that go into movie-making. But readers hoping for another one of Andrews' screwball he-done-her-wrong-and-now-she's-going-to-make-him-pay comedies will be disappointed.
One deals with the headaches of trying to manage a location shoot for a movie that -- even to the non-movie person -- shows signs of trouble from the very beginning. There's the too-famous-too-soon rapper making his film debut, the alcoholic script-writer floundering to produce a shootable script, the director with delusions of grandeur and dreams of an unlimited budget, not to mention missing port-a-potties and disgruntled locals.
And while location manager Greer Hennessy tries to keep all these plates spinning, she's also dodging her long-lost father who seems to want to re-connect, dickering for the rights to blow up a long-closed casino that holds treasured memories for many of the townspeople, and flirting cautiously with the sexy mayor.
There's nothing wrong with this good-hearted romance, and lots of backstage information about the myriad details that go into movie-making. But readers hoping for another one of Andrews' screwball he-done-her-wrong-and-now-she's-going-to-make-him-pay comedies will be disappointed.
