Review: relief at the end
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 15, 2012
This book started off in such a way that I was thoroughly impressed- you've got your heroine Barbara who is young and full of dreams to be an actress. Then you've got her hero Howard who has a horrible and horribly rich family but he's an absolute dream. They fall in love and when he takes her to meet his parents we run into Russ- the gardener's son who always ends up with the girls Howard brings back. But not Barbara. She's got her pride and self respect intact but after leaving Howard's family causes problems and she winds up alone....and pregnant...and that's when her life goes to Hell in a handbasket. The thing about Russ is he won't go away and that causes problems too. Flash forward almost a decade and we find Barbara and her son Matt have been running away for Matt's entire life because Russ won't leave them alone. I'm in it to win it, the story is great the writing is great- and as more characters are introduced (LOVED DANI--SHE IS THE BEST CHARACTER ASIDE FROM MATT) Barbara starts to look more and more like a too stupid to live heroine. Now, as much as the things she did and thought pissed me off I'm glad I kept reading because she did in fact redeem herself. I won't spoil it with how but with all the drama from the lawyer, the Hamilton's (Howard's parents), Tammy, Russ, Kyle, and all the other people in this book...Barb came through. And I'm actually glad I continued reading because the story was very good.