Reviewer: Amy Lignor
Title: Best Bet - 4th & final book in the Hallie Palmer series
Author: Laura Pedersen
Publisher: Rising Star
ISBN-13: 978-1-4401-7017-1
Release Date: October 2009
Genre/Sub-genre: Women's Fiction
Year/Setting: Present day, Cosgrove County (and beyond)
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: None/Subtle
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: None
Laura's Website: www.LauraPedersenBooks.com
Dear Readers:
This is an extremely funny "period at the end of a series sentence" for Ms. Pedersen. After three books starring Hallie Palmer, we are offered a fantastic conclusion and left with an intense wish that there were more books to come.
We begin with Hallie in her dorm room. She has worked her behind off and is now set to graduate and go off into the world – thankfully, leaving her roommate who plays Enya all night long, far behind. After graduation, Hallie has plans to move in with her boyfriend Craig. They have been friends for years but have been dating exclusively, and are ready to begin their life together.
Craig is a great character and a boyfriend that many young ladies would love to have. He actually left school and built his own pond-design/pond-building company that is doing extremely well. Hallie, unfortunately, has not been able to find a "perfect" job that makes her unbelievably happy. What she is settling for is a boring job that will help her build her resume.
Down to the office she goes to meet with the Dean, knowing that she most likely owes money in library fees. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. The college made a mistake when she was in her sophomore year. Her advisor (who was pretty much seven bubbles off plumb) screwed up her credits and now she is four credits shy of graduating with her class. What will she do? She and Craig are all set to move and begin their "perfect" life together outside their small community of Cosgrove County. The only way Hallie can get her diploma is to stay at school, or go to Cincinnati with Craig, take an extra course there, and transfer the credits back. Decisions, decisions…it is always amazing how fate reaches its arm out and slaps people upside the head
A blocked off corridor outside the school office offers yet another choice for Hallie. There is a teacher taking students across the globe from Hawaii to Egypt – Australia to Morocco – to take part in a "social experiment" that would earn Hallie the credits she needs. Her friends, family, and boyfriend do not take the news well that Hallie has decided to ditch her small world and head out into the unknown.
This book is filled with extremely funny "life" moments and characters whose delivery of lines is dead-pan and hysterical. This author was selected for Barnes & Noble’s "Discover Great New Writers" program, and she certainly deserves the accolades. Although all four books can be read as separate entities in this series, after reading this one, you will run to B&N and get the other three. Fun, friendship, and family are the ingredients in Hallie Palmer’s life. And, oh…what a life it is. Have fun with this one!
Until next time, Amy
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