Snowden Wright

This book about the fictional family that owned the equally fictional Panola Cola was an interesting idea, but it simply was a very hard book to finish. The author introduced way too many main characters and then proceeded to jump around from one year to another in no logical way whatsoever....
Don't get me wrong, I like books with "flashbacks" to earlier happenings, but usually those years are at least mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, make even the smallest amount of sense in the development of the story, and stay within that time for the length of the chapter. This book has many different time "zones" within each chapter... basically every paragraph is a different time and new characters are introduced without any idea of why they are even there and what year this new action is actually happening in!
It seems like the author had all these great ideas for developing the main characters and then simply wrote all of the thoughts down on post-it notes that he jumbled up in a "button bag" (thanks to "Project Runway "for the idea!) and simply typed them up as he pulled them out of the bag.… (mer)

Southern Gothic meets Dynasty in this family saga of a Mississippi family that founds Panola Cola, a Coca Cola-like drink complete with a secret ingredient. This is a family that definitely puts the fun into dysfunctional. Each of the family's children is flawed as are their children and we watch as the third generation runs the once mighty company into the ground. There's every kind of sexual sin you can imagine, there are people with physical and mental challenges, there is business duplicity, and then there are the normal vagueries of Southern Society with all the horrors attendant to Southern fiction. Pour yourself some pop, sit back and enjoy.… (mer)