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Ladataan... Shaking the Sugar TreeTekijä: Nick Wilgus
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Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinThe Sugar Tree Series (Book 1)
Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageousâand he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely manages to keep himself and his deaf son, Noah, more than a stone's throw away from Dumpster-diving. Noah was a meth baby and has the birth defects to prove it. He sees how lonely his father is and tries to help him find a boyfriend while Wiley struggles to help Noah have a relationship with his incarcerated mother, who believes the best way to feed a child is with a slingshot. No wonder Noah becomes Wiley's biggest supporter when Boston nurse Jackson Ledbetter walks past Wiley's cash register and sets his sugar tree on fire. Jackson falls like a wet mule wearing concrete boots for Wiley's sense of humor. And while Wiley represents much of the best of the South, Jackson is hiding a secret that could threaten this new family in the making. When North meets South, the cultural misunderstandings are many, but so are the laughs, and the tears, but, as they say down in Dixie, it's all good. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Well, at least not until Jackson stumbles into their lives. He's a pretty city boy from the North but it's hard not to fall hard for the caring man who seems to enjoy Noah's company almost as much as he does Wiley's. It's also hard not to picture an every day life with the three of them as their own little family. Perhaps it's not too late for Wiley, and Noah, to get a proper family? But as always, things are hardly as perfect as they seem. Wiley's family remains skeptic about how his sexuality and life choices affect his son whilst Jackson are keeping secrets...
Good lord, I enjoyed this book so much. I loved Wiley and his constant need to be funny, I loved Noah with one of the largest hearts I've ever encountered and Jackson whose pretty face will haunt me in the form of Jack Falahee. It was refreshing to read about such a father figure as Wiley; he has done a lot of mistakes and will definitely do more before his time is up but that doesn't stop him from being an above average dad who truly fights for his son, and actually cares about his interests and opinions.
I also love the total grey area when it comes to his family. There's no doubt both Wiley and Noah are both loved by their close relatives yet they don't understand either of them at all and even goes as far to consider Wiley a faggot sinner.
There's, however, two reasons as why I'm only giving it three stars. The first one is the extremely ableist language used, especially by Wiley. I get that some of it is their thing, said with love and trust, but he ventures into slurs that doesn't apply to Noah a lot and it made me feel uncomfortable even if none of these were directed at me. Like, there's such an obvious difference. For example, I completely adored Wiley's grandfather who were throwing every slur against homosexual as possible but he did it with a twinkle in his eye and Wiley obviously found him quite amusing. They had a thing based on trust. Wiley knew he wasn't just using those slurs to put him down which I can't say the same about when it comes to m*dget being used by Wiley, and such.
The other reason is that I honestly found it quite repetitive half-way through. The author kept going back to phrases and such too many times and it almost made you want to skip certain parts because you'd basically read it before. Like, we get it. They're in the South. I'm sure Jack does too. He doesn't need to hear ”You're in the South now, boy!” like fifteen times throughout the novel. He would be more than fine without it; and so would I. ( )