Review: Good but needed more development of certain relationships
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2012
This book was good but  with a bit more development of certain plot lines/character relationships it could have been great  book (well, as great as chick lit gets anyway).POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOWWhat I liked:~Great overall idea for a book.  Who doesn't wonder about their first love and what could have been?~The relationship between Vivian and her college love Josh was well written and believable, both when they met and when they meet again.~The character of Vivian was well written.  I felt like I knew her and I liked her.~I loved her mother-in-law, Madame and her daughter Lucy.  They were well written and very believable.Areas for improvement:~I felt there needed to be more exploration of the romance/marriage of Vivian and her husband.  This would have added depth to the plot and given the reader a greater understanding of Vivian and the changes that had occurred to her since she was abandoned by Josh after their love affair ended. We saw how they met and a bit of what attracted Vivian to George, but I would have liked more of the story including how they got married and Vivian becoming pregnant.~I felt there needed to be more exploration of Vivian's relationship with Alex (her brother) and more detail of their relationship growing up.  The author makes Vivian's childhood trauma an explanation for many of her adult life choices and yet I felt I was short changed on  both what occurred to her as a child and her relationship with Alex and his role in her childhood. I felt like her reconnection with Alex was just thrown into the book as an afterthought and seemed a bit unbelievable.