Bet Your Bottom Dollar

A Bottom Dollar Girls Novel

By: Karin Gillespie

Narrated by: Carrington Macduffie

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber Girl Baking Powder costs only a dollar and coffee and gossip are free. For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee, the Bottom Dollar Girls, logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to set up shop and run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things go cattywampus.

Manager Elizabeth heads up a crew of dedicated do-gooders bent on saving the Bottom Dollar from the fate of spare change. But when her unlikely new love interest, who also happens to be Cayboo Creek's wealthiest bachelor, pitches woo, out come some startling revelations about her past that turn life more than a little interesting for all her friends and neighbors.

©2004 Karin Gillespie (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks

Critic reviews

"[A] charming Cinderella story about a feisty 'princess' who fights dragons (big business) and wins hearts. Brace for a wild ride chock-full of Southern wit and down-home advice from a clutch of quirky characters you will hope to see again soon." (Booklist)

Great Story

What a delightful story. No explicit sex scenes. Beautifully written. Narration was excellent. Though I don’t usually recommend, I’m doing so with this book.

Pretty Good story with fun characters

I enjoyed this as a light read on a hot day. Sweet story about small town folk in South Carolina. the main character is enjoyable, and the secondary characters were fun . The story was predictable but the writing style made it still fun.
I enjoyed the narrator who I thought at first had a genuine southern accent. However, her constant mispronunciation of the town Augusta was extremely irritating. whoever edited this has a major fail.

its A-GUS-ta not AW-gusta. have yall never heard of the Masters Golf tournament? please fix this before the next audio book comes out.
I truly almost stopped listening to this simply because of this constant mistake.

An easy book to listen to

This book was slow at first then started picking up. It was nice to listen to a book without all the sex and cussing. I’m on to the next in the series for some relaxing reading or listening.

Charming story, but…

I almost ditched this book solely over the pronunciation of Augusta. I decided to stick it out, but it remained an annoyance. I find it difficult to believe that there was no one in the room that knew the proper pronunciation of this city when it was spoken by the narrator the first time it appeared in the story. If there was, why wasn’t it corrected? Crazy. Just crazy. To the producer, I would say, “in the future, please review the pronunciation of all proper nouns with the author before beginning to record the narration”.

Enjoyable and heart warming

Remembering my rural family life and my own wonderful grandmothers. Loved the laugh’s I had from the author’s story.

Charming

Well narrated with distinct characters. This story is a fun feel good listen and will make the reader smile. I thoroughly enjoyed the reading and the story.

Cute Story But Annoying Narration

The town is Augusta (uh·guh-stuh) not august tuh. I had a hard time listening because of the repeated incorrect pronunciation!

Delightful!

Southern to it's core. Fun, sweet, heartwarming and a little sad.

The story is skillfully told weaving a bit of mystery and heartache through out a fun low country tale. Fell in love with the well developed characters. (I'm pretty sure I know an Adele too!). The book is very well written as well as wholesome, romantic, cleaver, unique and funny.

Narration perfect!

Highly recommend!

Definitely ready for more Bottom Dollar stories

Sweet story, love the narrator, but....

uh -GUS-ta, uh-GUS-ta, uh-GUS-ta

I'm sure the next book will be delightful.

Will make you laugh and cry a little too

This is one of the best books I have listened to in a long time. The book is very funny, and the main character is truly lovable. I’m going to listen to and read the authors other books as well, since I enjoyed this one so much.