{"id":187,"date":"2008-12-04T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:18:24","slug":"book-review-the-truth-about-roxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/book-review-the-truth-about-roxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Truth About Roxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16006 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081204_roxy.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of THE TRUTH ABOUT ROXY by Jenny Gilliam depicting a dowdily dressed woman looking into a mirror which reflects a scantily dressed woman.\" width=\"250\" height=\"400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100614210244\/http:\/\/www.thewildrosepress.com\/the-truth-about-roxy-p-1044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Truth About Roxy<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nby Jenny Gilliam<br \/>\npublished by The Wild Rose Press<\/p>\n<p>I like the longer single-title contemporary romance (no suspense, thanks, and the category lengths are just way too short) and lately, the ones I really like have been coming out of the smaller e-presses. They\u2019re not as well edited as I\u2019d like, but they\u2019re fun reads whose story lines seem to stick with me quite a while.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Truth About Roxy<\/em> was a light, fun read that still managed to make me laugh and cry. I\u2019ve read another of this author\u2019s non-suspense novels (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090324000402\/http:\/\/www.amirapress.com\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Letting Luce<\/em><\/a>) and it was just as light and fun. Even <strong><em>I<\/em><\/strong>, lover of all alpha heroes monied, adore that Jenny\u2019s characters are normal people like me, with normal-people jobs and normal-people problems.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Roxy Palmer is a walking, breathing clich\u00e9. And darned tired of it. Working as the assistant librarian in her small, Southern home town, Roxy also anonymously pens the local love column, ASK PAULA ROCKWELL\u2014Thorton, Georgia\u2019s answer to Dear Abby. But when the door leading to Roxy\u2019s lifetime dream is slammed in her face by one of the good ol\u2019 boys, Roxy brings out the big guns\u2014and turns the genteel town upside down with her racier, feminist, home-wrecking new format. Paula Rockwell is making Sheriff Noah Kennedy\u2019s life crazy. He\u2019s got angry husbands lined around the block, demanding the cancellation of the column, fights breaking out and women catching their boyfriends\u2019 trucks on fire. If he ever gets his hands on that woman\u2026 But he\u2019s got his hands <em>FULL<\/em> of Roxy at the moment, and if he ever discovers the truth about Roxy, all hell will break loose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beefs first:<\/p>\n<p>I thought Noah\u2019s extreme reaction to Roxy\u2019s coming-out (as it were) was too much, because he\u2019d known her all his life and he should\u2019ve understood her better.<\/p>\n<p>And oh, that cover, bless their hearts. [Insert longsuffering sigh here.]<\/p>\n<p>Good stuff:<\/p>\n<p>Again, fun, light romp. The characters were engaging and I believed in the nutjobs and the goofy backwater Southern town because they were drawn so vividly.<\/p>\n<p>I had a really good time with this book, and that\u2019s all I care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth About Roxy by Jenny Gilliam published by The Wild Rose Press I like the longer single-title contemporary romance (no suspense, thanks, and the category lengths are just way too short) and lately, the ones I really like have been coming out of the smaller e-presses. They\u2019re not as well edited as I\u2019d like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[521],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17013,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/17013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}