Review: One of More Realistic, Well Written Books of thise Genre
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
Should see my other J. W. McKenna review', Wife's Mistake or something like that. Similar plots, however, writer is very skilled and able to nuance enough to make most very interesting though there is alot of plot and character similarity. I really do not understand some of the other reviews, other than they really don't like, or understand this genre. I guess I like this book, more than i should, because...I have some experience, real life, with similar characters. I knew a wife, a husband, and one of her sexual partners and J.W. hits their angst and passions really well. though, like the other book, J.W. (a woman?), nails the woman very well and far more thoroughly, but does a better job of the husband than the other book. In this book J.W. does show how powerful the force of the husband's fetish and how that complicates his relationship with a wife of over twenty one years. Personally, i THINK that i would have reacted by divorcing and dumping my wife, BUT, the effect of the emasculation he endured over time, that long time bond with his wife, I believe...it is powerful, it can change a man, it can break a man. One thing that i wondered about is...the future. in J.W.'s other book, it was quite long and provided an ending that sort of accounted for a future. This book, not so much, but it is half (.99) the price of the other one. Questions beg, does wife get pregnant? Does relationship endure? In my real life experience with this, there were no Black men, everyone (not me) went to the same high school, and it all began with talk at a 15 year reunion. they met once a month at a so so motel, and it was a day long party, with drinking, playing poker and numerous..... Oh, and while they were very attractive in high school, mostly they had all gained alot of weight. And last i heard, after many years, they were still having their monthly events, though the outside lover(s) changed. Not exactly like the book, but also pretty close.