Review: Sorrow? Regrets? Self pity?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2012
Having finished this book a week ago, with another inbetween, I've managed to forget some of the details. So it's my overall impressions that I write here.The overall impression is that the female main character wept a lot; three weeks I believe. The truth is I don't believe it! Do people really weep for THREE weeks because:a) A boy who has been happy for a few months with a foster-father (no mother) is moving to another state to live with his newly adoptive parents? Is this pity for him, 'empathy' for the foster-father or pity for one's 'deserted' self?b) A boyfriend who one has known for only a few weeks and never even slept with(!), now turns out to have a wife? Most the women I know would simply say he's a bastard and say 'next'.c) Your husband died over three years ago? Mourning, fine, but weeping over his grave every day?This woman is DEEP into self pity and that's only acceptable as a very short-term emotion. There is good news though; she stops bawling half a dozen pages before the end. So that's alright then.I cannot think of any woman that I have ever known who would admit to such loss of self control! It would be considered weak, demeaning and self pitying to the extreme!So, sorry Caedem, after a great first book my belief is shaken. Even a readership of 20's to 40's woman might expect better..