Review: Didn't Quite Live Up to Its Potential
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
This is the second part of Mid Life Love, where we see Jonathan and Claire preparing for their wedding. There are some flash backs for both Jonathan and Claire that provide us with some insights about each of them by looking at some of the things Jonathan went thru as a child and some of Claire's experiences after her first husband betrayed her. Her ex husband comes back on the scene, his wife Amanda, Claire's former best friend who he had an affair with while married to Claire is very sick and wants Claire's forgiveness. I think this book was entertaining but I still wasn't a big Claire fan at the end of it. To me, Claire's extreme rage over her husband's infidelity 6 years later was puzzling since she was now supposedly head over heels in love with J, as I said in my review of the 1st book, she needed to be in therapy to help her move on. Her daughters came across as spoiled brats, not sure why either J or C tolerated their self centered, ungrateful behavior. J's possessiveness of C was sometimes a little scary as well. I found myself skipping ahead because I just wanted to see what kind of wedding they would have, and the extravagance of the wedding and the difficulty C had about making up her mind about what she wanted for the 'perfect' wedding seemed out of character for a woman who in the 1st book didn't want J to think she was after him for his money and who wanted to sign a pre-nip in book 2. So, again the book was entertaining, had  a great premise but didn't quite live up to its potential.