Review: Making it last
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2013
In this amusing but all too true book we see that a holiday doesn't survive contact with children. Amber and her husband haven't been away since their third son was born six years ago, and with Tony's building work in a slump, they're broke. A family wedding has brought them to Jamaica where they intended to relax for once. But with a demanding trio, including a lactose-intolerant boy teased into eating chocolate, Amber and Tony are more worn out than on the first day.Tony persuades Amber to take up the offer of a few extra days alone at the resort; he'll take the boys home. She's scared - her first thought is, has he got someone else? She's lost weight but the demands of the home have drained her until she has no energy to be a good companion to him, physically or mentally. Working long hours, is he tired of her?  Will the boys survive?  And does she even know who she is after ten years?I liked that Amber, who didn't even have time to think at home, quickly decides on some changes. Her long, high-maintenance hair becomes a short style - a no-thought required decision I'd have said. She buys the kind of classy dress a mother never gets to wear.  Mind you, she leaves on her wedding ring. That doesn't stop men from coming to talk with her at the bar or poolside.  And when one guest makes it clear he's interested in the lovely lady... maybe she's interested too.This is an erotic romance novella for adult women, similar to 'Bloom' by Kate Belle. Ruthie Knox's earlier book 'Along Came Trouble' was more of a light-hearted romance and MAKING IT LAST has an intense focus on a marriage.  I hadn't read the earlier tale of this couple. While a short read this novella makes its point effortlessly.