Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Amy        
Lynnie     

fiction, historical fiction

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman is a feel-good slice of life story.  CeeCee is unfortunate to have an unmedicated psychotic mother and a careless, mostly absent father.  After facing devastating circumstances, CeeCee is sent to live with her great aunt in Savannah, GA.  This is when CeeCee’s life improves.  

Amy's Review

Lucky for CeeCee, her aunt is a wealthy, childless, kind-hearted widow just itching for someone to care for.  CeeCee makes friends, lives a little, and her future looks bright by the end of the novel.  That’s it. Nothing outstanding—just a girl’s story with some quirky characters and a bit of attention to unfair treatment of African American people in the south.

The best part of this novel was the outstanding narration of the audiobook by Jenna Lamia.  Her natural voice is very child-like with a middle American accent. (Although, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it's not her natural voice.) Her repertoire of different voices and accents is wonderful!  And her voice acting was outstanding.  A+ all the way! She was perfect to bring all of these characters to life.

Lynnie's Review

Full disclosure, I read this book in 2014, but I'm glad Amy picked it up now.  I thought the story was very cute - it would make a great beach read a the characters truly are larger than life (as any wonderful Southern character ought to be!) and tended to make me smile regularly. Nothing of note particularly happens in the story but it's a nice character sketch. You won't learn much but you'll have fun learning about more of Savannah's finest.