Main Character: CeeCee Honeycutt

CeeCee Honeycutt is a young girl who has had a really hard life. Her mom was, well…for lack of a better word, crazy. Her dad was never around and did not want to deal with the issues that were going on at his home. Not to mention, her father is having an affair at the peak of her mom’s illness. Her mom’s death is a Godsend in a sense, because it allows CeeCee to move to Georgia with her Aunt Tootie and try to have a normal life. Her life in Georgia is so different than her life in Ohio, and it’s interesting to watch all of her experiences in her new life. It’s bittersweet when she leaves her lifelong friend Ms. Odell in Ohio, but it is something that she needs to do in order to have any shot at a normal life. When she gets to Aunt Tootie’s extravagant estate, she has no idea what to think. She often has flashbacks of her mother and her fits, and they always cause her pain. They seem to cause her pain because she misses her mother, but her only solid memories of her mother are when she was unhealthy. I found myself tearing up when CeeCee’s mom died, but I immediately felt comfort when she is introduced to Aunt Tootie and her new and better life.

"Saving CeeCee Honeycutt"

The book I chose to read is Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. This book was recommended to me by my aunt and mom and so far is a really good book. Although it had me in hysterics at page twenty two, I still really like it. It’s about this girl whose mother is mentally ill and her father is never around. Her mother passes away at a young age and CeeCee goes to live with her aunt in Georgia. Her whole life is turned around and she finally has the opportunity to be happy and have a good life. It’s a very sweet and heart wrenching novel and it’s hard to not feel connected to each of the characters in the book. I’m looking forward to finishing the story and learning more about CeeCee’s new and better life.