Flies on the Butter by Denise Hildreth~★★

Author: Denise Hildreth
Title: Flies on the Butter
Release Date: April 8th, 2008
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Genre: Fiction

Book Cover: "Rose Fletcher's come a long way from her South Carolina up-bringing of Sunday church and Mamaw's fried chicken. As a high-powered child advocate in Washington, DC, Rose has put her Southern upbringing behind her. But the peace and happiness she sought has eluded her. With her marriage on the brink of disaster, her mind races with the chaos her life has become.
But now Rose must head South for home---a place where the mother she headed north to escape still resides.
She'll face her demons, relive her coming-of-age, and confront the issues that kept her away all these years. It'll take the intervention of strangers and a painful miracle of grace to help her find that place called 'home' once again."

Taryn's Review: I really struggled to finish this book. A great example why glares on the back of the book...upbringing is spelled two different ways in the first two sentences. These inconsistencies are the same in the book. It lacks any real flow and was wretchedly cutesy while trying to be serious.

Rose basically is "messed up" because of something her mother did (the author doesn't say until the end). But many of her flashbacks are wonderful, which gets you wondering, what was so terrible? And because of her "messed up-ness" Rose lies to her husband Jack, who adores her beyond belief, about wanting children and continues to take her birth control, and then engages in an affair with a senator, all the while Jack still loving her. Gag me, please.

On her trip home to see her dying Mamaw (grandma), Rose meets a Lily and a Daisy. Really. Some preacher in a random church knows her old best friend when Rose stops to sit in the church. And finally, some old lady in the hospital creepily knows what is going on with Rose, gives her advice, and Rose is awakened. When Rose goes back to thank said lady, she's gone, her cancer having magically disappeared. Sure.

I could have done without reading this one. I was intrigued what Rose's mother did to her that was so awful and when I found out, I wasn't shocked. In fact, it was ridiculous because Rose became exactly the woman her mother was through her selfish acts. My opinion on this book is to pass it over.