From Goodreads: When Madison Westin, the main character, inherits her aunt’s beachfront motel in the Florida Keys, or so she thinks. Tarpon Cove is not your typical sleepy beach town: Seduction, drunks, ex-cons and fugitives are not the usual fare for someone looking to start a new chapter in their life. Wrestling control of the property from both the lawyer and the conniving motel manager will be no easy feat. But Madison likes living on the edge so she feels right at home. Bullets fly, a dead body turns up, a kidnapping and blackmail. Madison really has to learn not to leave home without her Glock or it could get her killed.

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This is a really good read if you like novels with quirky characters that are a bit extreme.   It’s very fast paced—something is constantly happening—and the characters are all quite funny; I definitely snorted a few different times due to the outlandish circumstances surrounding the characters, especially Madison.  I mean, if I could meet them all in real life, it’d be one heck of a party… but these also aren’t the type of people I’d surround myself, for my own safety!

The novel itself, I’d say, is a bit on the unrealistic side.  I mean, it could happen, maybe, but I found a lot of it to be a little too far out there for it to be “real” (hey, maybe I just haven’t lived enough), but I think that might have just been the point.  It’s a good comedy, but I didn’t necessarily connect with any of the characters on a deeper level.  But do we always have to have extreme connections with the books we read?  I don’t think so.  And, this is a great story for you to read when you just want to let loose and read about someone else’s crazy problems, especially if they’re nearly impossible to believe.  If that sounds like you, I’d say you should definitely pick it up.  Three stars.

I received a copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review.