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Very cool idea for a book, and an excellent execution of that idea. A thoroughly enjoyable read. Recommended. .

Dollar Daze: The Bottom Dollar Girls in Love
(The Bottom Dollar Series #3)
by
Karin Gillespie
Paperback, 276 pages
Published May 12th 2015 by Henery Press (first published 2006)
Goodreads synopsis:
Moons and Junes are the flavors of the month for the Bottom Dollar Girls, whose sudden fondness for wooing and cooing has them in a Dollar Daze. From the night of the Sweetheart Dance, love begins blooming all over Cayboo Creek. Though every rose must have its thorn, it's up to the Bottom Dollar Girls to follow their hearts.
Leading the way is Attalee, soda jerk at the Bottom Dollar Emporium, who's so hot and heavy with her beau, Dooley, that the pair seems headed for the altar via Thrill Hill. Elizabeth is pining for her newlywed days when she felt more like a wife than a mother, while widowed Mavis has been up nights nursing a case of loneliness. Not so for newspaperwoman Birdie. "I'm glad my dating days are done," she claims, and Gracie Tobias agrees that she, too, is "done with romance." They couldn't be more wrong.
When high school heartthrob Brewster Clark returns to Cayboo Creek, suddenly Mavis and Birdie are competing for the attention of a certain pair of emerald eyes. Then there's Rusty, a philosophical duct doctor who's a most unlikely gentleman to turn proper Gracie's head, until she finds that his charms work on her like the Fountain of Youth. "A match made in heaven," Attalee pronounces the couple, but has she spoken too soon?
When it comes to love stories, "happily ever after" might always be the best ending, but one that can never be taken for granted. Traveling love's rocky road keeps the Bottom Dollar Girls asking, "How can you still believe in romance?" In Dollar Daze, these best of friends through laughter and tears discover that endings sting, but the pain makes new beginnings that much sweeter.
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4 stars
This is the second book in the Bottom Dollar Series. This series has a lot of the same cast but each book features a different set of characters from the same town. This book focuses on long-time friends, Mavis, Birdie and Gracie.
Gracie meets the so-called perfect match but is he really? Will her affection fall to another, a more local man, a man who seems all wrong yet all right for her?
Mavis and Birdie vie for the affections of the jock from high school. But has he changed his old ways enough to find love with one of them. Or is he just playing them both and holding out hope for is own dream date? I will not spoil the fun.
Another fun read.
I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.

It was cozy fun read with lovely and real characters and lots of warm humor, there were some scenes to laugh out loud. The five female protagonists are best friends but very different from each other both in age and character. Then comes love in their lives and upsets them, above all two of them compete for the same man. The setting is perfect, a small and adorable city of South Carolina.

This is not really a mystery, though it certainly has a cozy feel. At the Bottom Dollar thrift store the employees and their friends, ladies of a certain age, are getting swept up in the frenzy of the town's upcoming sweethearts dance. Love is in the air. Some of the women embrace it, like the randy Attalee, the octogenarian who is heading towards marriage. Elizabeth, the youngest of the group, is sick of staying home all day with the baby, but she's afraid to voice her feelings to her husband. The ladies all have strong feelings about love and romance, but life doesn't necessarily conform to their desires. It leads to two of the friends competing for the same man, and some of the women finding love when they weren't looking for it.
This is primarily a story about female friendship. It is a book populated by feisty and entertaining characters. This is a book for those who like feel-good reading. It's also a book for those who like sassy southern ladies, and those who prize characters over plot.