A review by dirtymartini
The Divorce by Nicole Strycharz

2.0

meh. I think this author just isn't my cup of tea.
Jenzy the twit and Chris the man with split personalities... and Moses, Jenzies boyfriend.

Chris has been taking Jenzy for granted and pretty much ignoring her for 2 years. Now she's fed up and asks for a divorce and moves out.
Chris has a history of being afraid of commitment. Which seems odd that it's still an issue when he married her quite young.
Jenzy is a crystal gazing, zodiac memorizing doormat. It kinda pissed me off because she wants to be a doula and is interested in holistic medicine too. SO is the author saying that all people interested in midwives and alternative medicine also believe their birthdate regulates their life and rocks conduct the ambient energy of the universe??

Anyways, after 2 years of being a neglected doormat, she finds her backbone. Chris realizes he loves his wife and wants to fight for her. But in the mean time she almost immediately starts dating Moses. Moses the man with no personality who serves as the adult version of a plot moppet. A plot stud muffin??

The story is overly long and frustrating. I just couldn't believe that Chris could treat her so shabbily for 2 years but still be so devoted to her. I mean, they didn't have sex for 2 years and he never noticed anything was wrong till she asks for a divorce??

SO I guess I found the reasoning and 'reasons' that the author chose, hard to believe.
By the end the author has painted Chris out to be a totally ungrateful douche canoe that I really didn't understand why Jenzy took him back. Not that I cared. By then I was in full skimming ahead mode.

Jenzy comes across as a total ditz stringing along two men. I might have liked Moses if he had seemed at all like a real person, instead of being painted as as completely ideal mate for Jenzy's personality. Because this is an opposites attract story, I guess the author felt that the OM must be like the masculine version of Jenzy.

I did like that the H wasn't cheating, and that it was the h who was dallying with another for a change. Yet somehow it still wasn't satisfying at all.

took me a while to finish.

safety is Ok I guess...
SpoilerChris goes for 3 years (2 years of ignoring Jenzy and one of trying to win her back) being celibate. Jenzy plans to move in with Moses and have sex with him but circumstances (Chris) keep making it impossible.