Review: A Left Coast Romantic Novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2013
This is the second of the books in the Home Wrecker series. The first book tells Brooklyn's life story so that we come to understand the person she has come to be. This book chronicles the events around her new relationship with Bo and principally their attempts to cope with the many evil facets of Bo's ex-wife who is seen primarily through her correspondences with Bo via email which are passive aggressive bipolar essays in madness, spite and dark obsession. Brooklyn describes Ruth in what I think are pretty generous terms given the ex-wife's proclivities toward vicious lies and obvious attempts at manipulation.By now, readers of the series will know that Brooklyn, as lovable and sympathetic as she is, has her own preconceptions about life and love. Book three promises a new perspective, that of Bo's, which should prove quite interesting as this world has been completely described to this point by Brooklyn.This series is rather addictive as a bit of modern American psycho-drama. Sort of desperate housewives mixed with sex in the city and the bachelor rolled into one. While Brooklyn's story is complex and seems a bit overly dramatic, it always has the ring of authenticity to it that holds our voyeuristic tendencies interest in spite of never delivering anything explicitly sexual. What's left are romantic implications and vicarious cheer leading for the couple as their story unwinds.