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    Sit! Stay! Speak!
    Sit! Stay! Speak!
    Sit! Stay! Speak!
    Audiobook9 hours

    Sit! Stay! Speak!

    Written by Annie England Noblin

    Narrated by Joell A. Jacob

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Addie Andrews is living a life interrupted. Tragedy sent her fleeing from Chicago to the shelter of an unexpected inheritance-her beloved aunt's somewhat dilapidated home in Eunice, Arkansas, population very tiny. There she reconnects with some of her most cherished childhood memories. If only they didn't make her feel so much!

    People say nothing happens in small towns, but Addie quickly learns better. She's got an elderly next-door neighbor who perplexingly dances outside in his underwear, a house needing more work than she has money, a best friend whose son uncannily predicts the weather, and a local drug dealer holding a massive grudge against her.

    Most surprising of all, she's got a dog. But not any dog: a bedraggled puppy she discovered abandoned, lost, and in desperate need of love. Kind of like Addie herself. She'd come to Eunice hoping to hide from the world, but soon she discovers that perhaps she's finding the way back-to living, laughing, and loving once more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 5, 2016
    ISBN9781515975380
    Sit! Stay! Speak!
    Author

    Annie England Noblin

    Annie England Noblin lives with her son, husband, and three dogs in the Missouri Ozarks. She graduated with an M.A. in creative writing from Missouri State University and currently teaches English and communications for Arkansas State University in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She spends her free time playing make-believe, feeding stray cats, and working with animal shelters across the country to save homeless dogs.

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    • 3/5
      An enjoyable but somewhat predictable story. The addition of Felix and other dogs to the tale is probably what kept me reading.(Warning--Spoilers are possible in rest of review. Read at your own discretion.)*****I guessed what Felix's history was about the time Addie was in the vet's office and he was describing Felix's wounds to her. I also correctly guessed what Jasper's secret he wouldn't tell Addie was. And for all Addie's talk about Chicago, I doubted she'd go back so the biggest question there was would she go back short-term and decide she couldn't live without Jasper or figure it out beforehand.What I liked: the dog(s)Addie's mother and stepfather (who obviously care for her a great deal)What I didn't like:the mistreatment of dogs (even though it was part of the plot)the roller coaster of Jasper/Addie--instead of communicating, Jasper would say "I want to tell you but I can't right now" which would make Addie mad, instead of just asking about Harper Addie would stew.Jasper and Addie have sex before their relationship is really defined. (I'd prefer the novel without this at all, but if the author feels it's necessary for the genre, it would have been better if they'd been in a more committed relationship than where they were when this happened. I sometimes feel that today's publishers feel the only way to show a couple's attraction to each other is to put them into lust with each other that culminates with them in bed together.)
    • 1/5
      Addie Andrews has inherited her Aunt Tilda’s house in tiny Eunice Arkansas, so she moves from Chicago, and the painful memories there, to refurbish the homestead and heal from her wounds. Of course, she finds that the peace and quiet of a small Southern town is just a myth; there’s plenty going on and everyone seems to know her business. When she finds an injured pit bull puppy, she comes to the attention of local hunk Jasper Floyd, and things get complicated.Oh dear … The best part of this novel – and unfortunately is a small part – is Felix, the pit bull puppy; and I say that even though I’m not a “dog person.” I knew going in that it was chick lit, and I wasn’t expecting great literature but this was really bad. The characters are cardboard, the plot is nonsensical, the relationships are unbelievable and the dialogue is tortured and clichéd. On the plus side, Felix is a great dog, earning the book 1 star. It’s a fast read, and it satisfied several challenges.
    • 3/5
      A bit predictable but the dog makes the book!
    • 3/5
      Although we often try to escape our problems by running away from them or finding something else to focus on instead, the issues we're ignoring stay with us. In fact, they might even be joined by new and different problems in our new place or situation. Eventually we have to face everything, and that is made much more comfortable by the presence of people we love and especially by a beloved pet. It is only by facing our pasts that we can build a future. We all deserve a second chance. In Annie England Noblin's debut novel, Sit! Stay! Speak!, every character, including the dog, is trying to make a second chance work.Addie Andrews has inherited a house from her great-aunt Tilda so she moves from Chicago to small town Eunice, Arkansas. She only intends to be there for as long as it takes to clear out Tilda's house, fix it up, and sell it. While she's in the house, she remembers snatches from the 12 summers of her childhood that she spent with Aunt Tilda, happier memories than the melancholic memory ambushes of her fiance Jonah. One evening, as she walks along the Mississippi River, she stumbles across a young, abused pit bull tied up in a garbage bag and left to die. Rushing the animal to the vet, she finds out that he has also been shot. This visit to the vet changes everything about Addie's life in Eunice. She ends up adopting Felix; meets Wanda, the vet receptionist who becomes her best friend; and first lays eyes on Jasper Floyd, a local farmer who sparks her interest and whose family is the wealthiest in town. It also puts her on a collision course with a nasty piece of work who is likely the one who wanted Felix to die.Addie is incensed by the fact that someone would treat a defenseless animal the way that Felix was treated and she is determined to root out the evil, inhumane perpetrators. But Addie is sticking her nose where it's not wanted and while Wanda and Jasper seem to be on her side, she also barrels along making enemies. Her plan to sell the house after she fixes it up goes very slowly and she starts to settle into this small, gossipy town, wondering what she means to Jasper and vice versa. At every turn, various people warn her off of her renegade investigation into what is going on that almost left Felix dead but she apparently doesn't trust any of these people enough to heed their advice, landing herself in danger over and over again. The pain in her past is also slowly exposed, especially as she gets closer with Jasper.Addie is often a frustrating character. She rescues Felix and recognizes that something terribly unsettling is going on in this town but she is too naive to acknowledge the fact that she doesn't understand all of the undercurrents and history and so she barges forward without thinking or considering. Her zeal for rescuing dogs and getting justice for them is admirable but her methods leave a lot to be desired, embroiling ever more people in her unthinking actions. The remaining cast of characters is a little bit boilerplate feeling: the hot but sometimes distant love interest, the devoted best friend, the caricaturish evil baddie, the very attractive and possessive competition for the love interest, and the rest of the quirky, small town, Southern eccentrics. The plot was generally predictable but did still have a few unexpected moments in it that saved it. The mystery of what happened to Jonah was not really a mystery and might have added more to the book if it had been addressed head on as something that Addie wanted to shy away from instead of presenting it as something to be uncovered. Of course, since Aunt Tilda was a phemonenal cook and Addie is a dismal one, there are the requisite recipes for scrumptious sounding Southern foods that are always popular in women's fiction. Despite problems, ultimately this was a nice tale of healing a broken heart, starting over, and the second chances we should all get in life.