Review: enjoyable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
I like the characters on Whitney's series very much - excellent, richly-defined people. 40 year-old Claire, mother of teenaged twin girls just starting college started a relationship (mostly based on sex) with exceedingly wealthy - and 11 years younger Jonathan Statham in the prior book "Mid-Life Love" - you don't have to have read that first, but you'll want to. In this book, the two of them are taking their relationship well beyond sexual; the book focuses on informing Claire and Jonathan's present by going more in depth into each of their haunted pasts- he as the poor, trailer-trash child of horrid meth-head parents, and she as the betrayed woman whose husband cheated on her with her best friend. Her ex and his mother (as well as the sister he practically raised) figure into the book quite a bit. Add in Claire's exploding career in interior design, a wedding to plan and lots of spicy sex and you've got yourself a really strong, enjoyable story. Star held back because I didn't care for how Jonathan used sex almost as a weapon at times, and that Claire had inner conflict that often ended maddeningly in unexpressed inner dialogue and actions conflicting with true feelings. Ended with a bit of intrigue too. Nice job.