Review: Just couldn't like the characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2012
The plot idea was interesting, with a different kind of twist that was not expected after reading the first chapter where Grace was in labor.  I just could not find the characters likeable enough to root for.***sort of spoilers***Grace spent 8 loving years with a man who gave her everything, then in the space of an evening he turns borderline abusive and she begins to fall in love with a man who flirts with her at a dinner party for 8?  Grace came across as pretty immature--8 years and no discussion of whether they want children?--and spoiled.  There was much more of Mark and he came across as much more likeable, IMO, than the boss who flirts, texts, and seduces her.  There isn't as much development of Tom's character and so to see her thinking of chucking the nice guy who seemed to give her everything for him made her seem pretty shallow.  From him she demanded a wedding after 8 years of commitment but was willing to sell herself for much less to Tom.  After 8 years had Mark really changed that much?  I was confused.The 2 main supporting characters were pretty generic "oh so well off mommy types" who didn't add much.  The elderly next door neighbor had a much more interesting tale to tell but wasn't really developed--I would have enjoyed more of her and less of Grace.  The whole "misunderstanding" over the blonde was pretty shallow.  Maybe if Mark had been made more of a villain (an affair of his own?  secret wife preventing marriage to Grace?) and Tom had been better developed beyond the seducing boss type I would have had more empathy for Grace, but the way it was written just left her unlikeable, again just my opinion.This wasn't badly written (your basic comma errors that were easy to overlook) just not that engaging.