Review: Didn't Love the Characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
Yvette lives in a normal house in a normal neighborhood, with a husband, 3 kids and a dog.  Her back-yard neighbor often phones to leave messages on her answering machine, griping about the noise from her kids, dog, life.  So Yvette was most irked one day to get a UPS box intended for said griping neighbor.  When she went to bring the box to the griping neighbor (Mona), Mona invited her inside to tell Yvette her life's story.The book was well written, well edited and well formatted (which sometimes doesn't happen with discount Kindle books).  However, I found Yvette to be too whiny about her life: it's hard being a den mother for both of her sons, she's always running around for the kids, blah, blah, blah.  On top of that, she doesn't even sleep with her husband; she sleeps next to her daughter, claiming her husband snores.  I just wanted to shake her and tell her to behave like a reasonable human being, and not sign up for more than she could handle.  Then she didn't go on vacation with her husband and kids so she could continue to see Mona every day, and listen to more of Mona's story.  Why?  I also didn't care much for Mona.  She made bad choices in her life, which were compounded by others.  I figured out where the story was going almost halfway through, but I hate to quit on a book, so I finished it.  There were a couple of minor things I didn't guess, but that's it.When I started this book, I was upset by the fact that it was written in present tense (one of my pet peeves).  However, after getting a ways into the book, I realized that this was deliberate on the author's part, a way of separating the current story from the one Mona was telling.  So, between what I liked and what I didn't, this book averages out at a 3.  That said, I would try another book from this author.