I listened to this book instead of reading it. By the time I was done, I started to think that maybe Jane Green is not an author for me. This is the second book I have "read" by her. The first book was Beach House. Each chapter was given a characters name and voice. Maggie, Slyvie, Eve, Grace, and even later Bud.
You can read the basic blurb. Two women find themselves married to the same man. One is on the East Coast: CT and NY, and one is in California. Two very different women. Both women are likable, but their daughters were not. I also find it highly unbelievable that in all of the universe these daughters meet by accident.
Things, I didnt like were the way the daughters handled the stress in their lives. The author goes into long detail about Eve's struggles and then after a wake up call, she begins to get better, but the author just skips over her healing and changing. It seems as if she glossed over recovery for the other daughter Grace as well. Both women get knocked to the ground and in the end they both become creative business women who create their own line of stuff, and not together each on their own. Oh right like that happens to all women who get divorced. They find their inner DiVinci, as they realize what is most important, friends and family, not clothes or social status. The whole book seemed trite, and full of characters being given the chance to say profound things about life, but all the time it just seemed like the author needed a puppet so she could have a avenue for her essay on life to be spoken.
I was glad when the 8 Cds were over, and I really dont plan to seek about another book by Jane Green.
If you want to listen to this book you will find the narrator to be a good one.
You can read the basic blurb. Two women find themselves married to the same man. One is on the East Coast: CT and NY, and one is in California. Two very different women. Both women are likable, but their daughters were not. I also find it highly unbelievable that in all of the universe these daughters meet by accident.
Things, I didnt like were the way the daughters handled the stress in their lives. The author goes into long detail about Eve's struggles and then after a wake up call, she begins to get better, but the author just skips over her healing and changing. It seems as if she glossed over recovery for the other daughter Grace as well. Both women get knocked to the ground and in the end they both become creative business women who create their own line of stuff, and not together each on their own. Oh right like that happens to all women who get divorced. They find their inner DiVinci, as they realize what is most important, friends and family, not clothes or social status. The whole book seemed trite, and full of characters being given the chance to say profound things about life, but all the time it just seemed like the author needed a puppet so she could have a avenue for her essay on life to be spoken.
I was glad when the 8 Cds were over, and I really dont plan to seek about another book by Jane Green.
If you want to listen to this book you will find the narrator to be a good one.
