Review: Broken Hearts Make Great Reading...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
I normally shy away from domestic dramas, especially when it's that old plot line "middle-aged man dumps family for young cutie." It's been done. And done. And done again. Yet there was something about the descriptions I'd read of Terry Tyler's books that told me she was an author with an edge. That if there was a way to make this type of story new, she might be the one to pull it off. Pull it off, she does. In NOBODY'S FAULT, Terry Tyler takes exciting risks with her narrative that, combined with carefully drawn characters, make for a funny but powerful novel. Adrienne, Nick's new love, is a strong and complex personality who never set out to become involved with a married man. Nick's wife Ria is no sad drab little housewife tattooed with the footprints of all the family members she's allowed to walk over her. She's gorgeous and tough and gives as good as she gets. Tyler is clever in how she handles the end of Ria and Nick's long marriage. There's no extended melodrama. The characters rush headlong into their new lives willing to take the bumps and bruises that come with grabbing for their dreams. Yet the normal pains of dislocated daughters and their guilt-ridden father sitting uncomfortably over holiday dinners isn't enough for the author. Instead, just as everyone settles into a new--if fragile--normal, Tyler shatters them again with a single violent blow. This time when the women in Nick's life are sent spinning, there's no telling what the result will be. Madness? Murder? NOBODY'S FAULT is an amazing ride--climb on board and HOLD ON!