The Same Sweet Girls (Paperback)

from valleymom

I just finished this book of very flawed, human characters. There were lots of loose ends I would've like to have seen tied up. Fleshing out Astor would've been good reading. Culley learning the truth about his father and holding him accountable would have been preferable to consigning him to the...

from kebets

"The Same Sweet Girls" is a group of women who graduated together from college in the deep South. Each summer they gather together to crown one of them the queen for the next year. The queen is enthroned on a decorated commode with a robe of purple and gold and a scepter made from a baton with co...

from BookConcierge

A hokey novel of six Southern life-long friends. I found it mediocre and maudlin.

from howifeelaboutbooks

A novel told by several different narrators, as many of King's works are. This one is about a group who have been friends since college, and are now entering their fifties. Very well written; each character's section is decidedly different and stands out. It's one of those books where you think y...

from bitsy08

Read this book because I read she was married to Pat Conroy. I was interested to see how she wrote and this book was recommended over her others. I thoroughly enjoyed it. One of the things I did notice, though, is that it was written in 2005 with only one other book after that. Ms. King and her h...