Sweet Tea and Sympathy

By: Molly Harper

Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi

Beloved author Molly Harper launches a brand-new contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, with this story of a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town.

Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia, is the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. (What, you have a problem with one-stop shopping?) Two McCready brothers started two separate businesses in the same building back in 1928, and now it's become one big family affair. And, true to form in small Southern towns, family business becomes everybody's business.

Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. As an elite event planner, Margot's rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society and made elegance and glamour her business. She's riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. Now she's blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start - and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation.

As Margot finds her footing in a town where everybody knows not only your name but what you had for dinner last Saturday night and what you'll wear to church on Sunday morning, she grudgingly has to admit that there are some things Lake Sackett does better than Chicago - including the dating prospects.

Elementary school principal Kyle Archer is a fellow fish out of water who volunteers to show Margot the picture-postcard side of Southern living. The two of them hit it off, but not everybody is happy to see an outsider snapping up one of the town's most eligible gentleman. Will Margot reel in her handsome fish, or will she have to release her latest catch?

©2017 Molly Harper White (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Perfect Amount of Sweet in the Tea

Molly Harper has created yet another enjoyable world that I'm glad to spend see time in. It's not as quirky as the Half Moon Hollow series and the humor's not as dark. But it shouldn't be given this world is southern Georgia. That said the book still contains all the hallmarks of a Molly Harper romance- strong female characters, intelligent humor, and a genuine appreciation of small town life. The plot is predictable but that's okay. It's not really about the plot. It's just admit hanging out with some people you like and feeling good as they get their happy ending. And listening to Amanda Ronconi is a joy, as always. I personally can't wait for Frankie's book!

Molly writes the South as only Molly can

I enjoyed this lovely little romance a great deal. It is a girl-meets-boy romance, but it's also a girl-meets-family "romance" and a girl-meets-her-roots "romance."

Molly Harper clearly loves the culture of the American South and it shows in most of her novels. This one welcomes home a Southern girl from Yankee country and steeps her in the sweet tea that is the deep South until she recognizes what is valuable about family and community.

And Harper does it with honesty, humor and her incomparable dry wit.

And, as always, Amanda Ronconi renders each voice with her incomparable voice and range.

I love Molly Harper's work and this is just one more example of why I love her work.

Truly great series

Utterly charming novel. Great comedic writing by Molly Harper and beautifully narrated by Amanda Ronconi.

I would give it a C-

I did not return the book and finished it, so it wasn't horrible. The story line is supposed to have southern charm, but it is just lame. We have read and seen this before, nothing original here. The writing is ok, Molly Harper is usually a bit more funny, but that's not exactly happening in this book either, so not her best. Amanda Ronconi does an OK job, but those children voices, they were down right annoying. I would not recommend this book, not even a good beach read, definitely not worth a credit.

laugh out loud

she makes me laugh out loud like no other. really enjoy the sense of realistic humor presented as the characters thoughts...too funny

If I could give more stars...

I absolutely LOVED this narrator and how she changed her voice so good for each character!

Good book

I enjoyed this story a lot. The reader did an exceptional job of narrating the story.

Ridiculous

I always dislike a story that makes a fool of the heroine right off the bat. It puts her at a disadvantage immediately with the hero & he always has an advantage over her anyway, just by being male, in these kinds of books. I only made it 1 hour in when I had to give up. A whole pack of dogs invade her cabin on her 1st morning, really? Ridiculous.

Cute Read 2 time around

I'm an essential worker so lockdown was no time off and I needed a lighthearted listen. This one is fun and Amanda does a great job with entertaining characters. Totally worth it.

OK, but I Miss Half Moon Hollow

I have loved Molly Harper’s Werewolves, Witches, Vampires, and the residents of Half Moon Hollow, and I hope Lake Sackett will grow on me, but so far this seems more of a formula than a new direction. Amanda Ronconi’s narration is, as always, wonderful.