Reviews for Bad Girl Creek

The average rating for Bad Girl Creek based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-11-01 00:00:00 Kenneth Prygon BGC is a real treat. Personally I find this book one of the warmest books on the topic of friendship between women. It's the story of four very different women who come together on Phoebe DeThomas's newly inherited flower farm and form bonds of love and friendship. As always, Mapson describes the scenery and atmosphere with great talent and the reader has no problem imaging the flower farm and California. Despite her disability, Phoebe DeThomas has great strength of character and that makes her a warm and an atypical heroine, and you can only root for her when her relationship with the UPS man starts to blossom. I was also fascinated and touched by Phoebe's relationship with her brother, James, who in the beginning of the novel seemed like an simple opportunist, but later became more multi-layered and more understandable. The three woman in the novel who end up on Phoebe's doorstep are complex, and not without heartache and serious problems, but develop strength from each other and their own inner selves. What strikes me the most is that sense of genuine feelings these 4 women have for each other; their strong bond is absolutely sincere, and there's no place for shallow or misguided feelings. They have one remarkable thing in common: none of them ever had a good bond with their mother. I don't know, but that struck me as quite odd. I also observed that this book is about how differently men and women communicate with each other, often miscommunicate. All the characters are top-notch and there's not one I disliked. I had a very special fondness for the (secondary) character of Florencio; the old farmer/gardener. Some eight years ago, when I read Bad Girl Creek for the first time, I didn't recall sensing the humor and wit that travelled throughout the entire book. Now, so many years later I am finding this humor very refreshing. At the same time, I like to observe that I'm not the same person myself - and that all these wonderful insights and messages this book conveys, have even more impact on me. Oh, but there are grave and heartbreaking moments in there too. This book is not all fun and fluff, on the contrary, there's room for the contemplative and the reflective. On a last note: one of the most POIGNANT moments is when Ness visits Jake in the hospital. Because it rang so true, I was immensely moved by that encounter.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-13 00:00:00 Kimberly Miller Every Christmas my husband and I have dinner with his parents and his cousin. She's actually closer to his parents' age, and every year she'll have the television on, tuned to the Hallmark channel where they play cheesy, predictable chick-flick films with predictable endings and an excuse of a holiday backdrop. And no matter how hard I try to ignore them...I still can't look away, because they're sweet and good-natured and formulaic and pride themselves on that happy "aawwwww" ending. Ok: Bad Girl Creek is like that. But just like those Hallmark movies, it was a warm little hug in a book. The four women who highlight the story all have man troubles to varying degrees. They come together and-through the bonds of sisterhood, lovable pets, flowers, wine, and better men-they all come a little closer to contentment, fulfillment, and the lives they dreamed about. Most importantly, they create a family of friends and no one goes it alone. Sure. some of it will make you cringe. [Why on earth does the author feel the need to drop comical turns of the phrase such as "doing it" and "har dee har" then commense f-bombs later on? Your guess is as good as mine.]It's the type of book that maybe you want to read if you have insomnia or anxiety or just want to escape into a cozy world where problems are never too bog to be conquered and love supersedes all.