Review: Pleasant Day by Vera Jane Cook

Teddyrose@1

10 years ago

Publisher: Moonshine Cove Press (February 1, 2015)
Category: Contemporary Fiction/ Women’s Fiction/ Southern Fiction
Tour Date: April-May, 2015
Available in: Print & ebook, 285 Pages

With murder in common friendship is inevitable:

As fifteen year old Pleasant Day struggles with her mother’s distance, her father’s infidelity and the death of her best friend, she draws closer to Clarissa, an older woman with the secrets to heal her. But Clarissa has struggles of her own as she faces betrayal and seeks to come to terms with old wounds. With her unpredictable but psychic ability to ‘read people’ Clarissa uncovers the answers to a deadly crime and to Pleasant’s true identity. In the end, both Pleasant and Clarissa’s worlds are transformed by the truths they’re forced to accept.

My Thoughts on Pleasant Day by Vera Jane Cook:

Pleasant Day is a 15 year old who find s out from a friend that a girl in the neighbourhood was found dead. To top it off, her body was hidden in a very peculiar way. So peculiar that Pleasant didn’t believe it at first. This is just how the book opens, just wait until you read more.

Sorry, I don’t want to risk spoilers but lets just say their are secrets that come out along the way, that change Pleasant’s world forever.

This is the fourth book I have read by Vera Jane Cook and this is certainly the most suspenseful. It is written in the same no holds barred approach the Cook uses in all her books. Which is one of the many reasons I keep reading her work. Every book she writes is unique, raw, and emotional. Her characters are quirky and original. The southern back drop also adds to her novels.

If you enjoy books with a southern setting that are fresh and original, you need go no further than Vera Jane Cook. You are in for a treat! I highly recommend ‘Pleasant Day’! It is a real page turner with plenty of twists!

5/5

I received the ebook version for my honest review.

I Also recommend the following books by Vera Jane Cook:

The Story of Sassy Sweetwater
Where the Wildflowers Grow
Dancing Backward in Paradise

About Vera Jane Cook:

Winner: Eric Hoffer Award for publishing
excellence and the Indie Excellence Award for
notable new fiction!
5 Star Clarion ForeWord Review!

Vera Jane Cook, writer of Award Winning Women’s Fiction, is the author of The Story of Sassy Sweetwater, Lies a River Deep, Where the Wildflowers Grow, Dancing Backward in Paradise and Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem.

Jane, as she is known to family and friends, was born in New York City and grew up amid the eccentricity of her southern and glamorous mother on the Upper West and Upper East Side of Manhattan.

An only child, Jane turned to reading novels at an early age and was deeply influenced by an eclectic group of authors. Some of her favorite authors today are Nelson DeMille, Calib Carr, Wally Lamb, Anne Rice, Sue Monk Kidd, Anita Shreve, Jodi Picoult, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Her favorite novels are too long to list but include The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Cheri and The Last of Cheri, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Wuthering Heights, Look at Me, Dogs of Babel, The Bluest Eye, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Body Surfing, Lolita, The Brothers Karamazov, She’s Come Undone, Tale of Two Cities, etc., etc., etc.

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