Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day

Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey is about a 28 year old who lives in a trailer, has a best friend who owns and runs the local Cajun Outfitter and Feng Shui Emporium and is responsible for her 5 year old niece while her sister is in rehab drying out. Bobbie Faye is a magnet for all things bad and apparently everyone in Lake Charles, Louisiana know it.

Bobbie Faye wakes up to a flooded trailer and calls her brother to scream at him(it was his fault for not fixing the washer). She finds out that he has been kidnapped and for ransom, they want her Contraband Days tiara. This tiara is a worthless hunk of tin handed down to her by her mother. She has it in a deposit box since her sister hocked everything else to support her habit.

As Bobbie Faye is leaving the bank with the tiara, the bank is robbed and they take off with her tiara. Only they've messed with the wrong girl. She kidnaps a man in a truck and makes him go after the robbers. And in true Bobbie Faye fashion, they lose the car, she causes the truck to drive into the river and actually ends up being chased by the police and the FBI for robbing the bank.

This book was so fun. Along the lines of Janet Evanovich and her Plum series, Mrs. Causey has given us a woman who is doing her best to take care of her family, but shit keeps happening. One of the many things I loved about this book is how at the beginning of each chapter she has these funny little blurbs...for example
"You know how some people are born to Greatness? Well Bobbie Faye Sumrall woke up one morning, kicked Greatness in the teeth, kneed it in the balls, took it hostage and it's been begging for mercy ever since.
- a former Louisiana mayor after Bobbie Faye accidentally ran her car into his office, knocking pages of fraud evidence into the street, which help land him in federal prison."

I am so happy to finally have found another author who has made reading a laugh out loud experience. Thank you Mrs. Causey...I hope you have more good adventures in ya!

5 out of 5!!!!