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Hugo & Rose
by Bridget Foley
3.5 stars, really. This was one of those books where the summary is incredibly misleading, and not in a bad way.
Rose is a thirtysomething housewife and mother of three children. Her unhappiness comes from her aging body, her husband not being home enough, and the fact that she can't forever live in her dream world with Hugo, the beautiful boy that goes on adventures with her. In this dream world, around since she was in a coma when she was six years old, Rose is perfect as she fights huge spiders and angry deer, and she's forever beautiful. She even tells her children the adventures of Hugo and Rose, and they eat it all up. But then Rose runs into Hugo in real life and things...quickly escalate from that point.
Where I thought that this would be a romance novel, one filled with swash buckling adventure and finally meeting one's soulmate, this book took a really dark turn near the end. What happens after Rose meets Hugo in real life is crazy and so unexpected that I kept waiting for the cliché woman waking up from coma or woman changing her entire life for her soulmate or woman leaving her soulmate for a crippling life of normality because she can't possibly leave her children. None of those happened, and I think I kept waiting for it because I was not anticipating everything that Rose had to go through when her dream world collided with her real world.
This book was slow to start, because the first couple of chapters are about setting the story up and there were some moments in there where I absolutely hated Rose because she had this wonderful life, but all she wanted to do was sleep so she could go off to Castle City with Hugo. I think the only character in this novel that didn't annoy me at least once was Adam, Rose's six year old son. But it made the characters real, and even though I hated them in those moments of realness, I understood. Of course Rose would want to spend so much time with this man she thought was only in her dreams. Of course her husband would be angry that she was spending time with the man in her dreams. Of course her son would be a spoiled brat on his birthday. So, while they were all slightly annoying, I was sympathetic toward them all, even Hugo.
It was a great read, but just remember, after reading the summary, this is not a run of the mill romantic women's fiction novel. This is so completely different that if I tried explaining it to you, we would both think I was nuts.
Rose is a thirtysomething housewife and mother of three children. Her unhappiness comes from her aging body, her husband not being home enough, and the fact that she can't forever live in her dream world with Hugo, the beautiful boy that goes on adventures with her. In this dream world, around since she was in a coma when she was six years old, Rose is perfect as she fights huge spiders and angry deer, and she's forever beautiful. She even tells her children the adventures of Hugo and Rose, and they eat it all up. But then Rose runs into Hugo in real life and things...quickly escalate from that point.
Where I thought that this would be a romance novel, one filled with swash buckling adventure and finally meeting one's soulmate, this book took a really dark turn near the end. What happens after Rose meets Hugo in real life is crazy and so unexpected that I kept waiting for the cliché woman waking up from coma or woman changing her entire life for her soulmate or woman leaving her soulmate for a crippling life of normality because she can't possibly leave her children. None of those happened, and I think I kept waiting for it because I was not anticipating everything that Rose had to go through when her dream world collided with her real world.
This book was slow to start, because the first couple of chapters are about setting the story up and there were some moments in there where I absolutely hated Rose because she had this wonderful life, but all she wanted to do was sleep so she could go off to Castle City with Hugo. I think the only character in this novel that didn't annoy me at least once was Adam, Rose's six year old son. But it made the characters real, and even though I hated them in those moments of realness, I understood. Of course Rose would want to spend so much time with this man she thought was only in her dreams. Of course her husband would be angry that she was spending time with the man in her dreams. Of course her son would be a spoiled brat on his birthday. So, while they were all slightly annoying, I was sympathetic toward them all, even Hugo.
It was a great read, but just remember, after reading the summary, this is not a run of the mill romantic women's fiction novel. This is so completely different that if I tried explaining it to you, we would both think I was nuts.