Review: An Awesome Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2013
I Really enjoyed reading this book about a Natalie, Gabriel, Nick, Olivia, Daniel, Matthew, Sarah & Josh who are family and friends who have a profound affect on each other, be it in the United States or in Australia. The book opens in New York City three days before Christmas, where Natalie and her daughter twenty-one year old Olivia are vacationing. They have come to explore the ultra cold and to experience snow, because in Australia it's still summer and blistering hot. Olivia has won an all expense paid holiday to the USA for two, and who better to bring then your Mom. Natalie is a mother of three children, who are all grown and adults now, her eldest is Daniele and he is twenty-three and her youngest is Matthew and he is eighteen. She left the boys in the care of her Ex-husband Gabriel, she has been en-strangled with him for three years. He chose to move out because he no longer wanted her, he has his own place on the other side of town, at first he just moved out, then after a year she filed for divorce, he has yet to sign the papers, but for all intents she's divorced since its been three almost four years since he left her.  Natalie & Olivia are enjoying their stay in the big Apple shopping and its on this one afternoon that finds Natalie fighting the urge to stay awake. Olivia says, Mom why don't you go back to the hotel and take a nap, I'll finish up here and you take my other purchases back with you. Natalie is thrilled, the jet-lag is killing her and she definitely needs a nap,on her way back it starts to rain,so she ducks into the MoMom museum, to collect herself, pays the huge entrance fee of $24.00 which is highway robbery to just collect herself out of the weather and plops herself down on a bench. Where she meets Nick Gallagher the most eligible bachelor in the world, who happens to be having his art work presented at this museum. He wants to know what is so interesting about the piece she has been intently starring at for over thirty minutes? She has no idea what he's talking about, since she's not really focused on the art work, just her own personnel thoughts. Natalie finally realizes this person is trying to get her to buy the art work, and she insists that he shouldn't waste his time because she was not in the market for art, but when she tries to tell him this he touches her arm, and the electric shock jars her. She needs to get out of their fast, she grabs her coat and runs, Nick is annoyed, and runs after her with her packages. Natalie, realizes she left all of Olivia's parcels and most go back and collect them, just as she goes back to get in the lift she runs smack into a wall, Nick's chest. Read this book because it will make you laugh, cry and cum a whole lot. It's about family and what that means to each of us. It's about a divorced almost single woman who is in another country with her young impressionable daughter who falls in love with a man who is not her father, but makes her feel alive and cherished. Natalie is finally taking the time to enjoy life, and oh how she wants Nick and the life he can give her. Read this book because its about fate and the unknown and how life throws you curve balls, that you never see coming. Enjoy reading it!