TONI MCGEE CAUSEY'S VERY, VERY, VERY GOOD BOOK!!

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	• Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day: A Novel Toni McGee Causey St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

good times roll funny!

The funniest book that I have ever read. You can't stop laughing out loud. The shooting of the truck will make you howl. From Texas and I lived a few years outside N'awlins and I can tell you that the trailer park scenes are damn near the real thing. Please let there be a sequel. Buy this book, you'll love it.

TONI MCGEE CAUSEY'S VERY, VERY, VERY GOOD BOOK!!

Whew!! Get ready for the ride of your life....and prepare accordingly. Bobbie Faye Sumrall's ahead...and she is the bain of the governor of Louisiana's existence. Beautiful, buxom and ballsy, Bobbie Faye is infamous in her hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana...well, hell the entire state. Men swoon, run and cower in fright at the mention of her name...yet none ever quite get over her. As usual, Bobbie Faye's good-for-nothing brother has gotten himself into a whole heap of trouble...and as usual, he calls Bobbie Faye. But this time it's different...there's no woman involved, no infuriated husbands; the cast's entirely different, and it looks like they play for keeps. Roy's been kidnapped, and in exchange for his return the kidnappers want Bobbie Faye's Contraband Queen tiara. And of course, on the trip to get the tiara from the safety deposit box at her bank, the bank is robbed...and the robbers take the tiara also. Soon Bobbie Faye finds herself on the run..with of course sexy hostage/helper Trevor in tow. Amidst gunshots, explosions, car and boat chases---and of course, the involvement of several ex-boyfriends, one in pursuit and one aiding and abetting--Bobbie Faye's got to retrieve her tiara, hand it over to the bad guys, and get her brother back...so she can kill him herself. The trick is to stay alive....and keep her hormones in check, all at the same time.
Bobbie Faye is a hoot, and this tale is rip-roaring, rollicking, gut-busting fun. If Stephanie Plum has a southern sister, I think Bobbie Faye is it.

DYB

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Many things to love about this book

I recently attended a panel discussion of authors in which one of those in attendance indicated that he didn't think of BOBBIE FAYE'S VERY (VERY, VERY, VERY) BAD DAY, Toni McGee Causey's debut novel, as a thriller. Fair enough. But I beg to differ, and mightily. Everything in this impressive work screams thriller. You have your explosions. You have your karate. You have your sex --- chaste, yes, but some of the descriptions of Bobbie Faye Sumrall, the erstwhile heroine of the piece, are difficult to get out of your mind. Thriller? Yes. Nonstop action, mystery and suspense. And laughs as well.

Anyone who has ever awakened to find that their day has started without them and already rolled behind the eight-ball will identify with Bobbie Faye, whose morning begins with a household crisis of mini-biblical proportions and flows downhill from there. On what should be the best day of her year --- when she reigns as queen of the Lake Charles, Louisiana Contraband Days Festival --- Bobbie Faye has to deal with the kidnapping of Roy, her no-good, waste-of-skin brother, the theft of her tiara (which is the only thing she inherited from her mother) and a police manhunt of which she is the subject. All Bobbie Faye has to do is recover her tiara, give it to her brother's kidnappers as ransom, keep what is left of her trailer from being ransacked, hold Children's Services at bay so they don't abscond with her niece, and reign supreme as festival queen.

How is Bobbie Faye going to do it? Easy. She kidnaps a guy in a bank parking lot. And her luck may be running true to form. Trevor, her "victim," is just a little too worldly, knows a bit too much about guns, helicopters and lock-picking, and is really good looking. The fact that one of the policemen in hot pursuit of Bobbie Faye is one of her (many) ex-boyfriends doesn't help matters either. Well, actually, in some ways it does. And Bobbie Faye, a one-woman Cajun wrecking crew, needs all the help she can get. It's not that she's hard to find --- just follow the smoke --- but the problem is what to do with her. By the end of the day, she has the police, FBI and a couple of sets of bad guys after her, and we're not sure where Trevor fits into it all. It really doesn't make any difference; Bobbie Faye has them all outnumbered.

There are many things to love about this book --- the plot, the pacing, the dialogue --- but my own favorite element is the characterization. Go to Louisiana, travel east on I-10, past Baton Rouge, and head south. Stop into a grocery store, buy a bag of cracklins' and an ounce of head cheese, and walk around a bit. You'll eventually bump into everyone you read about in BOBBIE FAYE'S VERY (VERY, VERY, VERY) BAD DAY. And I have a feeling that (almost) all the characters will be back. But if you want a short description of this great novel, think Die Hard in the swamp. And Bobbie Faye? She's a titanium magnolia.

--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub

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Why didn't I know a Bobbie Faye?

I don't know why I liked this book, but I sure as hell did.

Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day is a wild and bodacious read. The characters - all of them - are over-the-top stereotypical to the point of caricature, yet for every time my mind said "corny-silly-ridiculous" my eyes kept sweeping over page after page, delighting in every redneck phrase and each Lucy-on-steroids type stunt.

I grew up in a south Georgia hole-in-the-wall town that pretty much could've been the setting for this crazy book, but if WE had a Bobbie Faye, I never knew her. But I wish I had.

Perhaps it's because I'm a fifty-year-old schoolteacher who hasn't seen much adventure in decades. Perhaps because reading is the bottle I crawl into when I want to be someone else, and this time I got to be someone really FUN.

Or perhaps it's just knowing I can ride through the streets of my hometown again with a better feeling.

Because when I pass those rusty trailers, run-down Jim Walter homes, and various forms of common southern shelter, I'll see beyond the outside and imagine that in one of them resides a real Bobbie Faye. And that hope gives the whole worn-down community a different and vibrant new color.

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Bobbie Faye Sumrall knows that a day without disaster is a day in someone else's life. Criminals have kidnapped her good-for-nothing brother and are demanding her Contraband Queen tiara--the only thing of her mama's she inherited--as random. So Bobbie Faye has to outwit the police, organized crime, former boyfriends, and a hostage she never intended to take (but who turns out to be damn sexy!), in order to rescue her brother, keep custody of her niece, and get back in time to take her place as Queen in the Lake Charles Contraband Festival (think Mardi Gras, with more drinking and pirates). Luckily, Bobbie Faye knows how to handle guns, outsmart angry mama bears, drive a speedboat, and get herself out of--and into--almost every kind of trouble. If only that pesky state police detective (who also happens to be a pissed-off ex-boyfriend) would stay out of her way . . . "Bobbie Faye is a true original and Toni McGee Causey a true talent!"
--Melissa Senate, author of See Jane Date and Love You To Death "I love Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey. The tears are still running down my cheeks from laughing. Oh, my. What talent. What verve. What NERVE!"
--Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster

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