Whiskey Rebellion

~The main character is a ditz. I could live with that. ~I like a good cozy murder mystery…However, in just a couple pages, maybe it was only paragraphs, we are moved from (main character) Addison and (Police Detective) Nick meeting at the crime scene to them falling in love…or in their case, falling in lust. There was no time of a romance to develop. I tired very quickly of their anticipation of having sex together. ~The “murder mystery” part of the story almost seemed secondary to “romance” part of the story. I’m reading fiction, so I can suspend a fair amount of reality…but this story takes it to the very edge of plausibility. ~It\’s not a cozy story…it\’s not a mystery story…I\’m not really sure what it is. ~I would not recommend this book to anyone interested in a good mystery.

Hart\’s writing style is unforgettably humorous and her characters are written with a voice that comes across as honest and endearing. She\’s a writer of exceptional talent. That writing kept me reading a book that I wanted to put down. The part of Whiskey Rebellion that is problematic is when the main character, Addison is unconscious and the man shes gone on one date with and whi she barely knows uses the opportunity to completely undress her while shes unconscious. When she wakes up and is shocked by this, he reacts by telling her he enjoyed seeing her naked. Let\’s think about that for a minute. If I were on a date with a man I didnt know well and he was injured to the point of unconsciousness, I would bring him to a hospital. And if for some ridiculous reason I had to bring him to his home, I would call one his male friends and ask them to undress him so as not to violate his privacy. And I\’m a woman. Men are not typically afraid that women will rape or murder them. That just doesnt happen very often. We do, however, live in a world in which women are frequently raped and sexually assaulted by men. Sadly, many people think it\’s normal. But it isn\’t. Books that depict \”heroic\” men as brutes who refuse to back down from touching or forcing themselves in a woman when she says, \”stop\” are confusing to readers. The book makes it seem as though a heroic and decent man doesnt need consent to get what he wants from a beautiful woman. This is wrong. VERY wrong. The male love interest in this story was an example of how our world culture\’s entertainment industry has failed BOTH men and women in depicting what makes a man decent and attractive. Men who respect women wait for consent. That did not, at any point, happen in this Whiskey Rebellion. The male love interest forced himself on Addison repeatedly and stripped her naked while she was unconscious… and the book has her respond to all of this as if she likes it. Major fail. We need to do better as a culture when it comes to the kind of male behavior that we uphold as \”heroic.\” Other problems in this book are that it is set in the Deep South and there is not one single character of color. That is also a huge fail. Yet another issue is the fact that Addiaon, at one point, chides herself for \”fighting like a girl.\” Reading THAT right there absolutely disgusted me. If someone says \”I fight like a girl\” they should say it with pride, not self-disdain. Because we live in a society where women have to fight every day to overcome the challenge of being viewed as sexual objects with less value than their male counterparts. The problematic aspects of this book are a direct result of that society… but because women have the courage to \”fight like girls\” we still thrive. Hart is a talented writer, and I hope that she learns to use that skill to write about what it\’s REALLY like to be around a creepy, overly dominating male who sexualized women instead of viewing them as equals. Tell the truth. That it\’s not fun. It sexy. It\’s scary. And for God\’s sake the world has people with Black people, Hispanic people, Asian people, indigenous peoples. Lots of them. So if we\’re going to be realistic, let\’s make sure those people are in our books too.

The protagonist is TSTL. Even her love interest called her a train wreck a day or so after meeting her. She would be perfect in a horror movie. \”Don\’t open that door!!!\” Guess what she does… She opens the door, lets the killer out, everyone is dead. If only that had happened in this book. Did not finish, will not finish. TSTL= too stupid to live.

I really wanted to like this and I tried because the humor is so good BUT…… the lead character was so dense and such poor choices over and over and over and over (yes over and over) again with stupid results that I just couldn’t take it any longer. I need light reading at times but not pathetic drudgery with the main character who simply can’t make one small life choice without a major catastrophe over and over again. Couldn’t waste my summer reading hours on stupidness.

Thank goodness this was free. I just couldn\’t finish. This story caught my interest from the first page…drama and humor combined. The story line was really good and I really wanted to find out what happened, but I CAN\’T STAND THE MAIN CHARACTER, ADDISON!!!!! Oh my gosh, what a DITZ, an airhead, so irritating!!! I have no patience for a person that causes their own trouble. And Addison is a high school teacher???? She breaks the rules and wonders why she gets into trouble? She takes a 2nd job as a stripper and wonders how word gets out in this small town. She eats a banana split while driving through morning traffic. Not a cone you can eat with one hand, a banana split, that takes a utensil. She cuts people off, almost gets into an accident. She can\’t keep promises or secrets. Ugh! Steer clear of this immature 30 yr old. She sounds like a high school student herself and even then an immature high school student. If the author had just toned down Addison\’s antics, I would have really enjoyed the book. A little bit of a klutz or airhead is fine, but one right after the other and her inability to understand why things happen to her was just too much. As I was reading, I said to myself, oh no, here it comes. I can see another mini disaster about to happen because Addison will make the wrong aka STUPID decision. If she does, I\’m done with this book. She did. It was very anti-climatic to only be able to delete this book off my Kindle. If this was a paperback, I would have enjoyed tearing it apart in the same childish manner of Addison.

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