abs5405 's review for:

The Friends We Keep by Jane Green

2.0

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This is not a good book. The characters are horrible clichés. The book flies through time, which is fine just don’t expect me to feel nostalgic along with the characters on page 86 for something that happened 3 years ago for them when that was just 10 pages ago for me. The gay man with a history of physical abuse - come on; I am tired of this plot device. The woman who gets knocked up and tells the man she’s having an abortion then gets knocked up by the same man again and doesn’t tell him about having his child... because she doesn’t want to lose her friend (his wife)? Not plausible to me. And the ending? Give me a break. The friend (wife) finds out about the affair and the child, and then forgives everything and they go on living together and ALSO open a business together called “My Two Moms.” I just cannot.

This will make for interesting conversation at my friend reunion beach trip (the only reason I read the book), but it was not good.