Review: An Okay Follow Up
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2011
This book was a good follow up but I did not enjoy it as much as the first book, Happily Even After.  You have to read that book first to understand what the characters have been through.  Also, without the first book as a set up, a couple of the scenes in the book and the relationships between the characters will not make any sense.  This book was a nice follow up but it really felt more like an epilogue than a story that could stand by itself.The story attempted to show how real life (jobs, crazy work hours, kids) were affecting the couple's sex life.  And while it was somewhat realistic in premise, I just didn't feel alot of empathy for the characters.  Dean came off as a whiner and Creigh was a little wimpy- completely unlike how they were in the first book.  Also, the kids were barely in the book so the book did not really show how overwhelmed they claimed to be.It was really nice to re-visit with the characters but I LOVED the first book and this was just okay compared to that.  It wasn't bad- it just did not grab me like the other book did and some of Ms. Matthews' other books have.