It was her YaYa-esque BFFs that made the story. I thought LeeLee was pretty bland in the first book. I really really wanted to like this book more. But later on in the book, it says she was born in 1976 or something. On page 158 she remembers going to a James Taylor concert in 1970. On page 91, LeeLee asks herself "why has it taken him over two weeks to call me?" Then on page 93 - in the same conversation! - she says to Peter, "What about our good-bye, just a little over a week ago?" Just what year is this book set in? Because if LeeLee is 33 as she states on page 80, then there is no way that she was watching American Bandstand and dancing along to The Supremes singing Stop in the Name of Love. (Oct.The inaccurate details are starting to distract me from this book. The author is none-too-subtle about the changes (Leelee, for instance, “never, ever would have had the nerve to say any of the things I did if Daddy were still alive”), and, though owing heavily to formula, Patton's novel delivers on its feel-good moments and inspiring fantasies of finally making it on your own. Her transformation is (of course) accomplished with the aid of boisterous best friends, unlikely new allies and a heaping helping of girl power. Though readers will initially agree with Helga's stern pointers, they will inevitably adore Leelee as she weathers each storm, gaining backbone while simultaneously shedding the helpless princess persona. Leelee grudgingly agrees to keep the inn as is for a year while the former owners, less-than-personable German siblings Helga and Rolf Schloygin, dictate how the delicate Southern belle should run her home and the business. In Patton's plucky debut, naïve daddy's girl Leelee Satterfield acquiesces yet again to her spoiled husband, Baker, who wants to move the family of four from Leelee's beloved Memphis to middle-of-nowhere Vermont to buy and run an inn.
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