Review: Bittersweet...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2013
Great story but also painful. KA includes her usual humor but this story has sharp edges. Elle and Pren find each other after 20 years apart. Elle's life has been hard during that time...an abusive father...a failed marriage. Pren's has been happy. Or at least it was until he lost his wife and the mother of his children. Even though he loved his wife, he'd never stopped loving Elle either. Now she's back and he's learning that he never really knew that much about her. He thought she left what they had behind to resume her jet set life. He was very wrong. Her father took her away, and after years of abuse she was too scared to defy him. During all this, Pren's wife's ghost is there. She watches their bazaar courtship dance and sees her family moving on. She feels the pain of this but knows this is what they all need. She also goes from hating Elle to pulling for her. The story is sweet, sad, moving, and at times funny. Grab the book and a tissue...definitely worth the read.