Review: great, realistic story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2013
I really liked this book. Back to U was a lot more emotional than I had expected. This had a very real feeling to it all, Gwen was a housewife and mother for 20 years and suddenly...both "jobs" were gone. She was left in a whirl wind of not knowing what to do. A lot of people like it when the women take charge and are the "hero" of their own story, but I cannot imagine the emotions and lost feeling a woman would feel after 20 years and suddenly no one needs her, and she has nothing, literally, no home or money because the bastard ex took it all. And when she finds a way, he still comes back and takes that from her as well."My story is I've done everything I thought I was supposed to do."....Ty sat back in his chair, "Then your story is just beginning."I wanted to strangle Max, at every turn he just seemed like he was "playing" her. Most of the time he wasn't but I could see everything through Gwens eyes and I wanted to punch him in the face. I cried for Gwen, the only people who seemed to really have her back at all times were the freshman she befriended. All the "adults" hid something from her at one point or another, and her daughter? Gah, rotten little brat who barely, barely, redeemed herself in my eyes towards the end."The Boys" I cannot forget Bryan, Jason, and Hayden. I loved them, they were the hot studs in high school trying to find their footing in college. They adored "Venus" and would do anything for her. And the Cinderella scene! HA!!The ending was sweet, and I was happy to finally see Gwen make it on her own. I would have liked an epilogue of some sort tho."People aren't like your recipes. You can't take what you want and throw out the parts you don't and make something that suits you. I'm an Ellen casserole, and I don't like all the ingredients either. I'd have chosen for your dad to stay with me longer, a lot longer, but I made do. That's what being human's about, to go on loving our lopsided lives and all the half-baked people in it."