I love the title. And someone (I can't remember who) recommended it to me, and because I liked the title, I remembered it and ordered it. It starts off well, and the writing was good and the plot seemed to be moving along well. But then about halfway through, I became frustrated with the predictability and repetitiveness that often plagues "chick lit". Why is it that authors of this genre assume that we are idiots?
So back to the plot. Annabelle has been married to Grant for many years, living in New Hampshire and raising two children. She's growing restless because her kids are moving on with their lives, and her husband is obsessed with writing a book. She seems to be looking for a purpose in her life. Then we learn that Annabelle also has an obsession - an old flame from her 20's that she just can't get over even though she hasn't seen him in over 20 years. The book then starts to jump back and forth in time to her affair with Jeremiah detailing how it started, all the lovely sexual encounters, and how it ended. This is the part that started to bother me. It was almost as if the quality of the writing started to go downhill here. The dialogue between Jeremiah and Annabelle, and the dialogue between Grant and Annabelle - well, it just does not seem realistic to me at all. So here's my take on the whole thing. The plot is interesting and so are the characters. Just be prepared for the writing to take a dive somewhere in the middle and it doesn't recover at the end. But the title is really fun, isn't it? - June
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