Review: For love of Penelope!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2013
Penelope is the perfect example of people living a guilt filled life and all for the wrong reasons, the major of them all being living the way you want to live.Here is our heroine, young and beautiful, a successful writer making enough to live a comfortable life, and here are her father and brother, having thoroughly convinced her that she's not worthy of being happy only because she doesn't pick up after them.And when she does find the courage to separate from their weights, she bumps into none other than our hero, a nice and cultured Spanish young man but even he puts her in a situation where she has to choose between him and her family.Lawless has portrayed Penelope Eames's character beautifully and very realistically. Most people who care for others' feelings more than average get caught up in this emotional blackmail game, where they are eventually forced into submission of more than what they bargained for originally. This story deals with the struggles of a woman who goes through the emotional blackmailing, somehow gets out of it, and is pulled back in it again but only because you can never stop caring for the people you love the most, and that too especially family, no matter how rotten they seem.But how she manages everything the second time around, and the choices she makes are worth reading. Finding Penelope is my second Lawless novel, first being For Love of Anna, and it certainly won't be my last.