Chocolate on a Stick

• Saturday 31 January 2015

 

Chocolate on a Stick

• Written by: Carole Bellacera
• Narrated by: Angie Hickman
• Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
• Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:08-12-13
Publisher: Carole Bellacera
Audible.com
Publisher's Summary
Velma and Louie are in their 70s...and in love with each other. They met at the mailboxes in a retirement home in Memphis, Tennessee. But trouble is on the horizon for our sprightly senior citizens. The nursing home is closing, and their children are bound and determined to separate them - keeping Velma in Memphis with her nervous Elvis Presley-impersonator, car salesman son, Farvis, and sending Louie to South Carolina with his daughter, Jeneeva, who works in a sex toy factory pouring plastic into "pecker molds", as Velma calls it.
But Velma and Louie ain't gonna take this kind of treatment from their nutty offspring. They're "runnin' oft" In a red Corvette.
©2004, 2011 Carole Bellacera (P)2013 Carole Bellacera

My review

You've read the publishers blurb, but that can't possibly convey the sheer enjoyability of this book, it's a wonderful story, sheer entertainment, I just love it that in this ageist world of the young and beautiful, old people come out on top!
 
I seldom laugh aloud when listening, but this book changed that, it's so darned funny. As a bonus, there are some lovely heartwarming and tender side stories going on. Oh, and those Southern Sayins'! I would recommend getting the Whispersync book to, simply so you can look up again some of those gems.
 
On the slightly serious side, I believe this story can also teach us all a little, most importantly it shows how demeaning and humiliating it is to seize from someone their power of choice. Great stuff
 

Narrator

Think of all the superlatives you could apply to a narrator, well Angie Hickman deserves them all. I couldn't fault her in any way. This story is perfect as an audiobook and the author, Carole Bellacera chose the perfect narrator
 
 
 
I won this audiobook on the Eargasms Narrator Spotlight and was under no obligation at all to write this review, however, this review represents my honest opinion