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Hissy Fit

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Welcome to the world of Mary Kay Andrews, where manners are polished, reputations are tarnished ... and revenge issweet.

Keeley Murdock's wedding to A. J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitche

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Published May 1st 2005 by Harper Paperbacks (first published 1994)
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Kristy
Kristy rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: adult-chicklit
Okay, this was my first Mary Kay Andrews novel, and admitedly, I wasn't looking for anything challenging...and I especially enjoyed the idea of this strong Southern gal throwing a "hissy fit" when she finds her bridegroom having sex with her maid of honor during the rehearsal dinner...no spoilers here...all of this happens in the first few chapters. The remainder of the book is how she goes about coping with her discovery. I enjoyed this smart and sassy Southern woman...particulary a...more
Yrinsyde
Yrinsyde rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: American girls who love chick-lit
Shelves: public-library
There is an immediate problem with this book is obvious to the reader who isn't American: it has been written for American women and not for those who live in other parts of the world. Why is this obvious? Well, as the heroine of the book is an interior designer, many products (not just furnishing but food also) are mentioned (many US so it is difficult to picture what these are. But if you have a good imagination and can visualise what these may be, or substitute them for others well known to y...more
Michelle
FUN! Mary Kay Andrews is hilarious. This is the second of her books that I've read, and they were both wonderfully funny, and full of great, well-developed characters. The main character is very likeable and someone who most people will relate to on some level.

This is definitely a chick-lit, vacation, read-on-the-beach type of book. It's a quick, enjoyable read. Not too heavy, not a lot of work to plow through it, just an entertaining story. I want to get another of this author's boo...more
Melissa
Keeley Murdock discovers her fiance cheating on her with her maid-of-honor at her rehearsal dinner and throws the aforementioned hissy fit. To be honest, I didn't think the fit was all that bad based on the circumstances. I liked this book more than I thought I would thanks to the entertaining chick lit flavor, but I did have some issues with it. I don't know if it was because it was a library book, but the nook formatting was terrible. I knew the ending before I even started reading because ...more
Leslie
Leslie rated it 5 of 5 stars
The first time I knew anything about a Mary Kay Andrews book was when I was traveling all the time and getting Books-on-Tape out of the library. I loved the ones by Southern writers, especially women. On a long drive that usually started at four in the morning, these witty books read by a Southern voice kept me awake and alert and laughing.

Savannah Blues was one of the audio books I borrowed from the Patrick County Library, and I laughed aloud most of the way up the state of Virginia o...more
Kate  Maxwell
Though there were definitely laugh-out-loud parts of this book, if it weren't for the excessive descriptions of interior decorating and furniture, I would have given this 4 stars.

Keeley Murdoch catches her fiance, the night before her wedding, in a compromising position with her best friend and maid of honor. Needless to say, Keeley throws a 'Hissy Fit' in front of everyone, and calls off the wedding. Her daddy is kicked out of the country club, due to her 'episode.'

I loved...more
Debbie
Debbie added it
Definitely light reading and purely chick lit but still very funny and enjoyable. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. In places I laughed out load. We would all have a "hissy fit" in a situation like this. What she does after the hissy fit is what counts.
TBML
This was the Branigan BookClub selection for September 2005.

What do you do if, at your wedding rehearsal dinner, you discover your husband-to-be and your maid of honor furiously boinking like rabbits in the Country Club Boardroom? If you're Keeley Murdock of Madison GA, you throw a monumental HISSY FIT!

OK, so the story is a bit predictable and contains almost every cliche known to writers, but it is hilarious! If you're looking for a fast, fun read that leaves you hot and...more
Jen (Almost Grown-up) Baggiero
To be posted on Almost Grown-up:

I picked this audiobook up at a library sale quite some time ago, but on most long drives, I preferred to jam out to the radio. On my most recent trip to Orlando, however, I felt like being more entertained. I had a 3 hour trip up and a 3 hour trip back, so the 5 hours and 33 minutes of listening time sounded just about perfect.

Mary Kay Andrews paints a lovely picture in the beginning. Keeley Murdock is about to marry A.J. Jernigan, the “lo...more
Stacey
Stacey rated it 5 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
Recommended to Stacey by: Ginger O'Rear
When Keeley catches her fiancé in the throws of passion with her best friend (and Maid of Honor) on the boardroom table at the Country Club during their rehearsal dinner all Hell breaks loose and Keeley pitches the Hissy Fit to end all Hissy Fits! Trying to forget about her scum sucking fiancé and slutty best friend Keeley dives into her work as an interior decorator and thus the fun begins.
Keeley is hired to make over Mulberry Hill; an old plantation house recently purchased by Will Maho...more
Marianne
If you like interior design, antique shopping, small towns where everyone knows everyone else's business, and extensive, poetic descriptions of Georgian scenery, then you will fall in love with this book. After reading my second Mary Kay Andrews novel, it's clear she fancies all of the above, and that she writes for this very narrow demographic. Just like Weezie in Savannah Blues, Hissy fit's protagonist, Keeley, has an fascination with ridiculously overpriced, antique furniture. Readers that ar...more
Trish
Despite the silly title and pastel cover, I think this book is smarter and better written than the average chick lit book (I don’t read a lot of chick lit, so I could be wrong about this).

Keeley Murdoch is a smart, headstrong , interior designer who catches her fiancé and her best friend having sex at her wedding rehearsal dinner, and then proceeds to throw a hissy fit, hence the title. The rest of the book she goes about putting her life back together throwing herself into her wo...more
Ellenjsmellen
Recommended by a fellow goodreader. This was cute. When bride to be/interior designer in small town Georgia found her groom getting it on with her maid of honor on the boardroom table at the country club during the rehearsal dinner, she threw the hissy fit of a century.
April Suter
A great beach read! Funny, giggles out loud and a little sexy.
Keeley discovers during her wedding rehearsal that AJ found out the maid of honor "doesn't do it like Keeley"....so she throws a little hissy fit and keys a misspelled bad name on his car. The town is split, who should they feel sorry for. Keeley then proceeds with life and learns more about herself, her missing mother and solves a murder. But that's not all. The night she left the rehearsal dinner, a new guy in t...more
Cyndi
Cyndi rated it 3 of 5 stars
Wasn't expecting much from the book but couldn't find anything else to download to my IPOD for the long Thanksgiving drive with other people in the car that would have control of the radio when it got dark. Surprising was the likeability of the main character, who turned out to be way more than just a spoiled southern bell. I did not expect a mystery thrown in as she uncovered what happened to her mother 25 years ago who was supposed to have run off with an employee of her father's. So incredibl...more
Susy
Susy rated it 3 of 5 stars
This really is the title of the book & I make no apologies for reading it! After reading some more loftier subject matter recently combined with getting round two of the dreaded bronchitis I felt entitled to enjoy this book. And besides, I learned quite a bit about the ins and outs of being a successful decorator in Georgia where snagging the job of a lifetime - redoing an ante bellum plantation back to its original glamour - involves lots of spending of other peoples's money. Woven into that...more
Sharal Hunter
Very good story. The 25 year old mystery surrounding Keeley's mother's disappearance came as a surprise. I really liked the characters. I thought Austin was a hoot and the chemistry between Keeley and Will was fantastic. I tried to hate A.J. but couldn't when he turned out to be half-way decent to Keeley when she confronted his father. I was glad to see him and his mother and brother finally take a stand against "Big Drew" for a change. I don't think I'll try the recipe at the end of t...more
Jennifer
Hissy Fit will actually be an excellent read for those who DON'T prefer a lot of romance in their novels.

There was much to enjoy in this book; Keely is lead character who is smart and good at her job, doesn't take any crap from the man who does her wrong (not wishy washy) and doesn't let others bully her. I really appreciated that Mary Kay Andrews wrote a character that I really liked.

The book focuses on the restoration of an old plantation home which I think many read...more
Brenda
Brenda rated it 3 of 5 stars
A great little read! I read it in a single day. This book is total chick lit with a Southern twist.

Keeley is an interior designer who breaks her engagement on the evening of her rehearsal dinner after finding her fiance with her best friend. Her influential in-laws try to drive her out of business, but a new customer manages to save the day.

Keeley becomes involves his wooing of his dream woman by decorating his house to win her affection. And Keeley is, herself, bei...more
Ani
Ani rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Everyone
Recommended to Ani by: Found at the library
This is one of my favorite Mary Kay Andrews books.

It was filled with tension from beginning to end. Call me a school girl I like my books and my romantic movies that way.

The heroine which is always southern, others may find a problem about reading a book whose character is American and from the south, but I didn't. I'm from the North and not American by birth but I enjoy reading things not about myself. I learn more that way.

Anyway the main character takes n...more
Laura Dogsmom
I had heard from several friends how good Mary Kay Andrews books are, that when you pick one up you don't wish to set it down until you read it cover to cover. They were correct. This is not the first one of her books I have read but it is my favorite. I enjoy her storytelling skills and her descriptive powers.
Her characters are well formed and you get emotionally involved in the story. Even those characters you know you will want to like you can find yourself hating when they are being un...more
Cindy
What if you were at the rehearsal dinner for your wedding and walked in on your husband to be and your maid of honor having sex? Well, Keeley throws a big hissy fit hence the name of the book!
The story is about much more than that; a father who raises his daughter alone after her mother leaves and the mystery surrounding this disappearance, it is the fun search for antiques as Keeley restores an old antebellum mansion, the question of trust in relationships... Just an all around fun, easy...more
Debbie (Readerbuzz) Nance
Summer's always been a time for me to
relax by the water and devour pure escape fiction. Mary Kay Andrews
would be a good name to add to your summer reading list. Hissy Fit,
Andrews' latest, has interior designer Keeley Murdock discover, only
minutes before she is to say, "I do," that her scum-bucket fiance has
shamefully snuck beneathe the sheets with her best friend. Keeley
distracts herself from the disaster by helping a rich newcomer to
town decor...more
Kitty
Kitty rated it 2 of 5 stars
Interior decorator Keeley throws huge hissy fit at a large gathering, with good reason, but never-the-less causes a scene. Now is when she could really use the mother that deserted her as a child. Whatever happened to Mom, and can she make the impossible deadline of restoring an antebellum home in time to make her client's dream date fall in love with him?

The story was okay, but I just didn't care much for the main character. It was recommended by a friend who really likes this auth...more
Mary
Mary added it
This is one hilarious book. I had read Savanah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews and enjoyed it so tried another - this one. From the first chapter I completely sympathized with Keeley, Andrew's gutsy, impulsive and creative main character. I kept hoping that Keeley wouldn't back down and get back together with her teen-aged boy, in a man's body, ex-fiance. Andrews does a great job of giving readers a sense of the culture of the south and the mindframe that exists in a tightly knit, small town commu...more
Anna
Keely finds her fiance screwing her maid-of-honor at their rehearsal dinner the day before the wedding, and throws a hissy fit. Now that she has pissed off the most influential family in town, she's having trouble securing new work for her interior design business, until Will hires her to refurbish an old plantation mansion.

The main problem I had with this book is that I did not like Will, the male protagonist, at all. I found him to be arrogant, demanding, and just generally not a n...more
Tammy
First sentence: "If it had not been for my fiance's alcoholic cousin Mookie I feel quite sure that my daddy would still be a member in good standing at the Oconee Hills Country Club."

Interior designer Keeley Rae Murdock thinks she has her life perfectly designed clear down to the leather club chairs and Oriental rug for her starter home. But then she discovers her fiance, A.J. Jernigan, and best friend, Paige, in a compromising position on the boardroom table of the Oconee...more
Lil_pixie
i've written this review but yahh dengan ketololan gue malah ilank semua. arghhh let's start again.

ceritanya ttg seorang designer interior bernama Keeley akan menikah dengan AJ, putra dari keluarga terpandang di daerahnya. Pada gladi resik terakhir, Keeley malah mendapati AJ making out dengan sahabatnya sendiri. Keeley membatalkan pernikahannya setelah mengamuk besar2an.

mulai dari sanalah masalah di hidupnya bermunculan. ia kehilangan client, nama baiknya tercoreng, belum...more
Rebecca
Normally, I’m not one for chick lit (which is kind of funny when I seem to be writing more and more of it lately), but a colleague handed me two books, and I gamely agreed to read them.

The first one was a brightly colored number called Hissy Fit. The book jacket gave away far more of the plot than any jacket should, but it didn’t affect the enjoyability of the book at all.

At the center of the story is thirty-something interior designer Keeley Murdock. She’s about to get m...more
Angela
Angela rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Everyone!
Recommended to Angela by: I'm just a fan of the authors.
Looking for a great summer read or just a fun book!? Look no further! If you're having a Hissy Fit of your own this is the perfect book to curl up & forget with! Filled, as always, with eccentric, hilarious & warm characters that you won't soon forget! This entertaining read will take you on twists & turns filled with humor, mystery & intrigue! Meet Keeley, the fiance of A.J. Jernigan. At their rehearsal dinner the night before their wedding, Keeley finds A.J. with her maid of honor in th...more
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Andrews has a B.A. in newspaper journalism from The University of Georgia. She is a former reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While a reporter in Savannah, GA, she covered the real-life murder trials which were the basis of the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
She also publishes under the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck.
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