Review: H cheats, h apologizes and all is well...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2011
(Spoiler Alert) Ten years ago the h caught the H in bed with her best friend.  Because of this, the h leaves town and starts a singing career.  After becoming a huge success as a country singer, she returns to her home town and comes face to face with the H and his daughter.  They greet each other and act as though they were good friend separated by distance and time, not a huge betrayal.  As a reader you rationalize that the child was there and so were other people so maybe that was why the lack of emotion but this same lack of anger continues throughout the book.  When they meet again, the H informs the h that he had actually ended up marrying the OW but she died a few years back.  The h then cries about what an awful friend she was for not being there for her best friend and how sorry she was that she was dead and unable to apologize to her for all the hurtful things that she had said to her.  WHAT?!!!  So...the best friend sleeps with the H and the h is apologizing?The story continues pretty much with the same tone.  IMO, the H did nothing to win the h back or to build trust again, it just happens as though it was a given: the h will take the H back.  The reconciliation was too easy and the H was completely unimpressive.  All his actions spoke of a man with little passion or action.  For example, the h sees him in bed with her best friend but he won't go after her because he believes she should go.  He thought that the OW might have been lying about the paternity of the baby after they had sex but he marries her anyway.  The OW had a miscarriage, the reason he married her, but he stays married.  This H sucks!Worse of all, the entire story they kept talking about the OW as though she was not a huge source of betrayal among them.  Things like "your house is beautiful, she must have really loved it" and while skating mentioning how the OW went skating with the daughter all the time or what a wonderful mother the OW was.The comment that the h said to the H mom towards the end of the book pretty much sums up the book : "I should have stayed and fought for him."  Really?  Because in my book I would fight to get rid of a man who would sleep with my best friend, made no effort to make amends and then complained about how hard HIS life was because everyone knew he cheated on her.  I have read brilliantly written stories about reconciliations before; this one is simply not one of them.