Review: Ordinary "popcorn novel"
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
I "buy" a lot of free novels from Amazon for my Kindle, and this was one of them -- which is a good thing, because if I had spent money on it, I would have had to return the novel within seven days to get my money back. Most of the novel examines pregnancy from different points of view -- married woman who wants to be pregnant, single woman who changes her mind the minute she becomes pregnant, and so forth. The wraparound "conceit," about a foundling, is just silly, and the novel is only peripherally about the Heartbreak Cafe. There's no noticeable heartbreak in this novel. It's a pleasant way to pass an afternoon, but don't expect either to remember anything about this novel a year from now or to want to reread it.