Love and a Bad Hair Day
By Annie Flannigan 

     Jolene Hadley Corbett lives in a town where not much happens. When Ry O'Malley comes back into town, she knows that he is going to shake things up. The O' Malleys and the Hadleys have had a feud going on for as long as anyone can remember. Now it seems like Ry is going to keep the war going with his decision to shut down South Winds Trav'O'Tel. Jolene loves the hotel and more importantly, the hotel is pertinent to the local economy in Verbena, North Carolina. Jolene decides to fight Ry about this and she isn't going to let a little thing like his groping her when she was fourteen get in the way. So what if she loses her cool when she gets around him? Putting the town first will just have to come first, assuming Ry and Jolene can keep their hands off of each other.

      Love and a Bad Hair Day is an amusing, if not predictable, story. Jolene was an interesting character to spend about three hundred pages with but I didn't feel like the secondary characters came alive. What kept me reading to the end was the relationship between Ry and Jolene. It rang true with every word and gesture. While this was not my favorite book of the year, I am still glad that I read Love and a Bad Hair Day.