Review: "we were divorced not dead, and it was time to move on with life."
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2014
The book title is the first thing that caught my attention. The Divorced Not Dead Workshop. I was excited to read this book.In this book, we got to know Dorsey who founded the Divorced Not Dead Workshop with the help of her girl friends, Pilar and Mimi. Of course things didn't go well for the start and there were hiccups throughout the workshop but Dorsey always managed to think of something to resolve it and got everyone together. The workshop is definitely not the only thing that will be happening in this book. The sparks and romance between Dorsey and Finn, the nephew of her step-father's bride-to-be, makes up a majority part of the book.The book started out slow and I was really into the writing style. I felt that the story was kind of rushed and it moves from one scene to another before I had a grasp of what it was all about.Things got better when the workshop finally got started. The story flows much better and I loved reading about the problem of each of the participants of the workshop. Finn is definitely another great addition at this point of the book, although his mother is a pain in the ass. I loved reading the interactions before him and Dorsey but I felt that there are way too many misunderstandings between them that I started to lose interest in it towards the end of the book. And of course like what Ralph said in the book "we were divorced not dead, and it was time to move on with life."The premises of the story is interesting and I was intrigued by the workshop carried out in the book. It is a light and easy read for me as there wasn't too many heavy content which would bore me to death. However, the flow of the story wasn't really smooth and I had problem trying to know who Melissa is and that wasn't explained until halfway through the book, although her names came up various times.Overall, I would recommend this book to chick-lit lovers who wants to take their mind off heavy books.Note: I have received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.