Review: Even the most perfect people have flaws
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
This is a book for people who need happy endings that, at times, appear destined not to arrive.  At some level, it is humorous - little bits of what society sees as scandal appear at the beginning of each chapter.  At the next level, it provides a in-depth look at just how it feels to be the subject of those little barbs.  After a lifetime of being constantly reminded of his faults by his ogre of a father, our hero finally breaks...and in doing so allows himself freedom.  In a similar fashion, Sophie finally realizes what love is, apparently too late.There were several places where this book could have ended.  But those places, while nice, would not have been nearly as satisfying.  Ms. Caldwell has created a cast of characters, complete with flaws, that makes me yearn for more.  The ending was fast, although satisfying.  After all that happened, I might have wished for a little more reconciliation, maybe in an epilogue devoted just to that.  But this ending works.  And it sends me straight out in search of the book that came before.  I now MUST know that whole story!