Nancy K. (NancyInWI) -
Helpful Score: 3
A quick read that is very funny, very poignant and very recommended!
Terri E. (AuntTeb) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 2 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I like books with frequent, easy stopping places and this is one. It is an easy read, great characters, small town life. You can probably recognize some of your friends and family. I am looking forward to continuing in this series.
Yvonne M. S. (woodworm) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 92 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This book is such a fun and quick read, and I would definately recommend her newest one A DOLLAR SHORT. The little sayings at the beginning of the chapters are quite funny.
Judith H. (crazybooklady) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 85 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Bet Your Bottom Dollar : A Bottom Dollar Girls Novel is the first in the Bottom Dollar Girls' series. The story takes place in a small South Carolina town that is having an unwelcome growth spurt. The Bottom Dollar Emporium is being threatened by a large chain store. The girls have to work together to save their store. It is a funny book with a little romance.
Helpful Score: 2
Comic novel about small town southern life. First in a series.
Helpful Score: 1
Easy-going story with enough secrets revealed and personalities to keep it interesting.
Amy W. (LanesHotMom) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 53 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Cute little southern chic lit book. First in the Bottom Dollar Girls series. Bubble gum for your mind.
Sue C. (LeJardin) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 4 more book reviews
I really enjoyed all the BD books.You find yourself wanting to move nextdoor and share a cuppa tea.
Jensyne M. (smoothiemaker) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 17 more book reviews
The book was a great read! I got really involved in the character's and their story. It was great that the author kept the series going.
Linda (Angeleyes) -
Very much reminds me of the Dixie Cash series - The Domestic Equalizers. The flow is the same so if you like one you would probably like the other.
A great read - fun, witty, laugh out loud. Don't be surprised if you can't put the book down. This is one of the cutest southern fiction books I have read in a long time and am extremely surprised it is not getting more attention than it is. The writing flowed and was very simple to read with short chapters that had great little titles such as "If your not the lead dog, your scenery never changes". It also had a wonderful cast of town folks who were endearing and lovable.
Can't wait to read the next book in the series.
A great read - fun, witty, laugh out loud. Don't be surprised if you can't put the book down. This is one of the cutest southern fiction books I have read in a long time and am extremely surprised it is not getting more attention than it is. The writing flowed and was very simple to read with short chapters that had great little titles such as "If your not the lead dog, your scenery never changes". It also had a wonderful cast of town folks who were endearing and lovable.
Can't wait to read the next book in the series.
Kay A. (katiebear) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 24 more book reviews
Being a Southerner, I totally enjoyed the characters in this book because I've met people like them all my life. This is a fun, fast, and funny story with a lot more depth than I expected. I love it when books make me laugh out loud and this one did it time and again. I highly recommend it.
Carol S. (waucondacarol) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 319 more book reviews
I won this book from the author. A funny, poignant story from the viewpoint of a young woman and those who impact her life in her small southern town. Clever chapter titles add to the enjoyment.
Nina F. (ninafel) reviewed Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Bottom Dollar Girls, Bk 1) on + 88 more book reviews
From Booklist
In a first novel that is guaranteed to please Fannie Flagg and Bailey White fans, Gillespie introduces the Bottom Dollar Girls with a flair for timing and a cheeky southern turn of phrase. Meet Elizabeth Polk, 26, in her natural habitat, the Bottom Dollar Emporium in Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where she works with widowed store owner Mavis Loomis and Attalee Gaines, who's "knee deep in her eighties." On the mend from a sudden breakup with her fiance and busy cooking up plans to fight the store's competition, Elizabeth isn't looking for romance--but that's what she gets when one of her wealthy customers pushes Timothy Hollingsworth on her, complete with billiard-ball head and Hare Krishna robe. But romance in strange packages is only one of the many surprises in this charming Cinderella story about a feisty "princess" who fights dragons (big business) and wins hearts. Brace for a wild ride chock-full of southern wit and down-home advice from a clutch of quirky characters you will hope to see again soon. Jennifer Baker
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"Use your very last bottom dollar, if you have to. Just BUY THIS BOOK. You will laugh yourself sick and love every minute of it."
-- Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queen
"The characters are the kind of steel magnolias who would make Scarlett O'Hara envious."
-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Laugh out loud...this perfect summer read [will] find permanent beach-house residence."
-- Richmond Times-Dispatch
In a first novel that is guaranteed to please Fannie Flagg and Bailey White fans, Gillespie introduces the Bottom Dollar Girls with a flair for timing and a cheeky southern turn of phrase. Meet Elizabeth Polk, 26, in her natural habitat, the Bottom Dollar Emporium in Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where she works with widowed store owner Mavis Loomis and Attalee Gaines, who's "knee deep in her eighties." On the mend from a sudden breakup with her fiance and busy cooking up plans to fight the store's competition, Elizabeth isn't looking for romance--but that's what she gets when one of her wealthy customers pushes Timothy Hollingsworth on her, complete with billiard-ball head and Hare Krishna robe. But romance in strange packages is only one of the many surprises in this charming Cinderella story about a feisty "princess" who fights dragons (big business) and wins hearts. Brace for a wild ride chock-full of southern wit and down-home advice from a clutch of quirky characters you will hope to see again soon. Jennifer Baker
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"Use your very last bottom dollar, if you have to. Just BUY THIS BOOK. You will laugh yourself sick and love every minute of it."
-- Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queen
"The characters are the kind of steel magnolias who would make Scarlett O'Hara envious."
-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Laugh out loud...this perfect summer read [will] find permanent beach-house residence."
-- Richmond Times-Dispatch
