Review: Barely got through the first few pages
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2012
I was bored with this book almost from the beginning and soon decided it would be a huge waste of my time to read it. The characters were flat and uninteresting. First was Cynthia's pity-party because she had to spend her 44th birthday alone - while she agonizes about some "secret" that she is afraid to tell her husband about. Then Shea comes over to "rescue" her when Cyn is sick from eating 2/3 of a chocolate cake. Soon the story jumps to Cyn, financially struggling but stoic Shea, and wealthy Derry commiserating over their individual plights. Derry brings up the fact that because she was unable to have children, she and her husband adopted a child, Charlie. Derry has discovered that Charlie is actually her husband's biological child. But no mention in this beginning part of the story is made of when Charlie had been adopted, how old he is, or anything else about him. The focus was on the "betrayal" of Derry. A very sophomoric story. I'm glad I didn't waste but a few minutes on it.