Review: Could Have Been Better
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2013
I was really looking forward to reading this book but was slightly disappointed after reading it. I expected the infidelity since we were told in advance to expect it but what I didn't expect was the book to lack substance. IMO certain things were a little confusing and left a lot to be desired. When thinking about someone leaving their wife and child to be with someone else I expect a lot more pain and emotion to be associated with it. One minute Eli and Faith were happily married and then Simone comes into the picture. Eli leaves Faith and his son and that very same night goes and sleeps with Simone. Eli starts to see that things are not so much better with Simone so he leaves her and that very next day tries to go back to Faith. A few days later Eli and Faith attend a counseling session with Faith's father, who is a pastor. Then two days later their having Thanksgiving dinner at Eli's family house. Everyone is telling Faith that maybe she should give him a second chance because she cheated too. (Oh yeah, Faith met a man named Darren after Eli left her but that relationship was over before it started. Thought it was creepy the way he just showed up in her room.) It just all seemed so rushed. There were details in the beginning about Eli and Simone which was ok but I felt that more time should have been spent on Eli and Faith's relationship. There should have been some sort of build-up to him leaving or feeling like he didn't want to be married. There was also no rebuilding of Eli and Faith's relationship and just two days after leaving Simone their together at Thanksgiving dinner and she's thinking about giving him a second chance.To me situations like this calls for so many emotions to surface. Faith was shocked in the beginning but there was no rage or a sense of betrayal and Eli didn't show any shame or remorse for what he put his wife and son through. There was a little but I feel that it just barely touched the surface for a situation this heavy. Eli and Faith also reconciled too soon in my opinion. There was no restoring of trust between the two which to me just seems unrealistic. I was also confused at the ending its four years later and Eli and Faith have a total of three children and Simone has one. The questions the little girl asked made it appear as if Eli was still seeing Simone. I more than likely won't be reading the next book about Eli and Faith. These two just did not do it for me. Everything was just too easy and too rushed when dealing with a situation like this.