Review: Whew!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2012
This book was really well written and brought out all types of emotion.  The storyline was unusual, but it held my attention from start to finish.  The gist of the story.  Jenny and Aisha are best of friends, more like sisters.  They met in college and developed a life long friendship.  Connell was Jenny's husband, (also met at the same college)  and they have been married for nearly ten years when Jenny developed cancer and didn't have much time left.  Prior to dying she decided to  organized her husband's and kids life so that when she passed, they would be loved and cared for.  Enter Aisha (African American), who Jenny has asked to take her place (yep, giving up her job and moving to the middle of nowhere to be mother and eventually wife to Connell) and look after her two kids.  This is where the book really gets interesting because both Aisha and Connell always had an uneasy alliance/relationship based on underlying feelings.  Anyway, to cut a long story short, the book was detailed (too detalied) but was excellent.  The secondary characters were lively and made you laugh out loud.  My favourites were Ben and Helen.  Oh, let's not forget Connell who was hot, hot, hot!Overall, a great read.  I just couldn't do five stars becaue when you thought the book was wrapping up, it introduced new people and subject matter and it was just too much.