Review: Good read ... read non-stop to completion
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
I am not a reviewer and haven't a clue what reviewers are supposed to write.  I am picky, even when I scan for "free" books on the Amazon / kindle website.  I read this book's reviews and then,  I read the 1st chapter of this book, and immediately purchased it.  I was seriously captured!  This book weaves the lives of 3 childhood friends and the their parents, and simultaneously, other lives that connect into the story later.  The author did a GREAT job.  I wasn't confused by the going back n' forth on all the different lives.  I was "pushing" to read what was going to happen next.  I liked the way the author presented the 3 childhood friends / parents:  one abusive and eventually alcoholic mother but loving father, one overly protective mother / hater of men in general, and one set of very normal loving parents.  It was a "real" honest balance of how life is.  I really could not put the book down ... but for a minute or two.  The ending happened all too quickly ... and abruptly.  I wasn't ready to stop.  :)