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virginiacjacobs's review
2.0
This book just wasn't very good. It's about 250 pages long, and I was able to read about 150 of them on a flight from Oakland, CA to San Diego. It wasn't bad, either, it just wasn't very good.
In a nutshell, it's about four cousins. It starts off with one cousin, who's supposed to get married that winter, but her fiance dies in 9/11. Then the second cousin and she move to Washington, where the second cousin sleeps with one of the cousins of the man who died and immediately gets knocked up. Then the third cousin sleeps with her former boyfriend/lover/husband (maybe...at this point, it doesn't really matter), and she, of course immediately gets knocked up. Then the second cousin marries her baby-daddy. Next, his twin brother, who was injured in Iraq is released from the hospital and marries the first cousin. Meanwhile, the fourth cousin is a tennis coach. Whatever. Then the third cousin's husband dies in Iraq. And eventually, the two babies are born.
The book mostly focuses on the third cousin, who is a newspaper editor. The chapters are short and choppy, and because the focus shifts from all of the cousins to the third cousin, the book is unbalanced. Also, this newspaper editor third cousin is a little too fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants, in my opinion, to actually be a newspaper editor.
By the time I got to the end of the book, not much had happened, and it just wasn't that good.
In a nutshell, it's about four cousins. It starts off with one cousin, who's supposed to get married that winter, but her fiance dies in 9/11. Then the second cousin and she move to Washington, where the second cousin sleeps with one of the cousins of the man who died and immediately gets knocked up. Then the third cousin sleeps with her former boyfriend/lover/husband (maybe...at this point, it doesn't really matter), and she, of course immediately gets knocked up. Then the second cousin marries her baby-daddy. Next, his twin brother, who was injured in Iraq is released from the hospital and marries the first cousin. Meanwhile, the fourth cousin is a tennis coach. Whatever. Then the third cousin's husband dies in Iraq. And eventually, the two babies are born.
The book mostly focuses on the third cousin, who is a newspaper editor. The chapters are short and choppy, and because the focus shifts from all of the cousins to the third cousin, the book is unbalanced. Also, this newspaper editor third cousin is a little too fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants, in my opinion, to actually be a newspaper editor.
By the time I got to the end of the book, not much had happened, and it just wasn't that good.
menfort's review against another edition
2.0
I was so diappointed. The author spent more time writing her opinions on the war and forgot she was writing a "story"
Love this author. Heard her talk many years ago in college and have been hooked ever since! Didn't know she had new book out till came across it at my favorite store... Half Price!!!!!!!
Love this author. Heard her talk many years ago in college and have been hooked ever since! Didn't know she had new book out till came across it at my favorite store... Half Price!!!!!!!
cataltmaier's review against another edition
3.0
Though the story itself was interesting, her character development was severely lacking. Too many characters were shockingly one-dimensional and her infrequent attempts at character complexity and multi-dimensionality fell flat. She tried to write a simple story about a complex issue and it just didn't work.
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