About this title: Jacqueline Laurens is divorced for a year, the only one amongst all of her married friends. Her husband got the second house, the Porsche and the young girlfriend while Jackie got custody of their children, a broken heart and more guilt than she could sift through in a lifetime. Not to mention that it's Christmas and her 40th birthday is just ...
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"I really enjoyed reading this book. It is a book about a women who has been divorced for one year and how she starts to realize that she doesn't really fit in with the married group anymore, and that she must move on, and learn to live again. It takes time to grieve for the loss of a marriage before you can move forward and learn to accept your new life and learn to live in a new way. It is a book about change, and moving forward, and learning to live differently, and to love again. It is a humorous book about a serious subject, the subject of life."
"I could definitely relate to this book as a whole. I read other books written by Jane Porter and I thought this one wasn't written as well as her other ones but it was a fun, quick read. It didn't make me want to run off to Hawaii and get my groove back but at least I'll try to make more of an effort to get out of the house."
"I read a part of this book in a magazine and I thought I need to read it all. I did just that in a couple of days! I couldn't seem to put the book down! I found out Ms Porter wrote more books and I again went to my library and read another one of her books and then another and so I went and bought them all here on Albris!! I want more!"
"I won a set of Jane Porter books from a fellow book blogger, and was excited to have some lighter fare to offset some of the heavier novels I've read lately. I confess I saw part of the Lifetime movie based in this book which peaked my interest- I figured the mediocre movie had probably cherry-picked the melodramatic bits of the novel leaving the meat behind for readers. Ultimately though, I was disappointed to discover the book was as mediocre as the movie though perhaps for different reasons.
The premise of the novel is decent, and I definitely appreciated the strong opening where Jackie and her children must wrestle with the seemingly mundane problem of selecting and decorating the family Christmas tree. Porter does an excellent job of highlighting how hard even this simple task is as a single parent; hoisting and lashing a 10 foot tree onto the roof of a car is really a two-adult job.
Unfortunately, the strong opening that made me truly think about the day to day problems of raising two kids alone soon gave way to the stereotypical quest to find a man to resolve these life problems. Though I do agree that many parents focus more on the happiness of their children than on their own, I did get tired of hearing Jackie hammer that point home repeatedly during the narrative.
Jackie and her friends seemed shallow- focused on money and looks and status rather than on anything even vaguely meaningful. Jackie's inner monologue ran on an endless loop; she never really seemed to grow or develop during the course of the novel. I give Porter props for not wrapping up everything neatly at the end (one of my pet peeves with the movie) but still think she missed an opportunity to create multi-dimensional characters that would have given this novel the depth to stand with other works of literary fiction.
I give this one three stars- it would be a decent vacation read."
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