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Laura is just like her mother self centered and married to a passive man. Elizabeth Edwards is a betrayed women. As the bible says "The sins of the parents will be passed down to the Children". Laura at least has some compassion. He knew she really did not love him not the way she should.
My sympathies are with Jeff and Laura's children. Jeff got tired of trying to please Laura. Laura married Jeff for the wrong reasons and vs versa. She was worth fighting for. The adults take no responsibility for their actions as they are self-centered.
This book was written in 1991 almost 20 years ago. We get to meet them too. Jeff gives up and screws Laura good. Laura wants us to feel sorry for her because Jeff betrays her but I can't. If I had read this book back in 1991 I would have been steemed at Jeff and my sympathy would be with Laura. As her children keep correcting her about what their father Jeff liked or disliked.
The story comes down to this. Really meaning your behavior will effect your children. They are this way because of their parents. What a dope. You want to reach out and shake this man. At the same time he forgets about two people who love him unconditional his flesh and blood. I am twenty years older and wiser. But she didn't.
He hands Laura to him as well. This story is mainly about three adults Jeff,Laura and Jeff's brother Christian. Jeff hands him his most prize gift his children. His brother Christian of course gets the prize. After 20 years of a living without real love Jeff has a breakdown and ruins his children's lives. You might like this book due to all the media blitz lately about stupid men like John Edwards and his political cronies that don't think their self-centered behavior will affect their children. Laura is not betrayed. Especially Laura's mother who is so self centered she cannot love.
Really loved him. She convinced herself she loved him. Laura was blind. The Woman betrayed is Jeff's daughter who loved him. She loved her husband.
What was going to happen was apparent 10 chapters before it actually did. I couldn't find anything good about this book. The plot (such as it was) didn't make sense. The dialog was stilted and unbelievable. The characters were two-dimensional and predictable.It's just too bad that Laura couldn't have been revealed to be the sneaky tax cheat on the last page.
Delinsky's trademark has always been smart and sensitive handling of family dynamics and she doesn't disappoint here. The Daphne character is endearing.
I know Delinsky is generally pegged as a romance writer, but this is not a "romance novel" per se. Not a fairytale ending, but then, Barbara Delinsky rarely writes them that way.
The characters are incredibly complex, likeable, but with human flaws. As far as Delinsky's work is concerned, this was spot on.
Still disappointing. I'm kind of disappointed that the scumbag didn't get his own in the end, but I suppose he wasn't *really* evil.
I guess. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys suspense with a bit of romance thrown in.
Too much plot and other stuff getting in the way ;) This is a very sad, very nostalgic, and very touching story.
Laura was pathetic and her children were very annoying. I have read several Barabara Delinsky books that were good--this one was very disappointing. I found the characters to be very annoying. When her son is accused of rape he openly admits to sleeping around and no one bats an eye. Then she goes off for 5 days and leaves her daughter with the grandmother (who we all know will be too busy to pay attention to the girl) and comes back to find that her daughter has lost her virginity.I couldn't like or relate to any of these characters--Lake News and An Accidental Woman are much better books.
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