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A review by kimreadz
Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
3.0
This story centers around a baby and four women. India is married to a very wealthy business mogul in NYC. She is his 'trophy wife'. Marcus is in his late 50's and she is in her early 40's, though she only admits to late 30's. Bettina is her stepdaughter, who regards India as a gold-digger and still has hopes of her mother and father getting back together and restoring her family. (Her mother left her father to join and ashram in Arizona). India decides she wants to have a baby with Marcus, and after artificial insemination and several miscarriages, they decide to go with a surrogate. Jules, the egg donor, is a smart, beautiful, recent Princeton grad who needs money for her dad in rehab. Annie, the surrogate, is the mother of 2 young boys who lives with her husband in a money pit of a farm house outside of Philadelphia, who is hoping to improve the life of her family with the money she will receive.
One thing I really liked about this book is how each chapter centered on a different woman. The women are complex and this was an excellent way to develop their characters while furthering the story. At the beginning some of the women, Bettina and India in particular, were not very likeable, but as the story developed, I liked them both. One thing I didn't like so much is that I felt the story ended a little abruptly. The epilogue tied things up nicely, and it read almost like a fairy tale, with allusions to 'Sleeping Beauty'. But I still would have liked to have seen a bit more of how the relationship developed between the women at the end of the last chapter.
This was a quick, easy read; light and entertaining. I'm giving this one 3-1/2 stars. I like it...a lot! But I don't really love it.
One thing I really liked about this book is how each chapter centered on a different woman. The women are complex and this was an excellent way to develop their characters while furthering the story. At the beginning some of the women, Bettina and India in particular, were not very likeable, but as the story developed, I liked them both. One thing I didn't like so much is that I felt the story ended a little abruptly. The epilogue tied things up nicely, and it read almost like a fairy tale, with allusions to 'Sleeping Beauty'. But I still would have liked to have seen a bit more of how the relationship developed between the women at the end of the last chapter.
This was a quick, easy read; light and entertaining. I'm giving this one 3-1/2 stars. I like it...a lot! But I don't really love it.