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One Plus One
by Jojo Moyes
Really enjoyed this book. I try to avoid any books here lately that might have serious undertones just because my work is serious enough. This book was not too heavy on the serious and had some humor thrown in to make things lighter. I am not a huge fan of romance and happily ever after, just because I am cynical, and this book was a nice balance of the two. Believable romance and an ending that was happy but not juvenile "everything is going to be grand forever" type happy, if you understand what I am saying. Jess was a character I could easily relate to even though I have luckily not been in her position. I could feel her struggling every day to hold her family together and keep her kids from feeling like they had no place to go but down. Tanzie and Nicky are great kids and I was rooting for both all through the book, and they both grew as characters. They were not in the book as just support characters or to add to Jess, they had feelings and stories of their own. I loved that Ed was not some rich dude that falls for a pretty girl despite her silly ways. He too had his own story and struggles which added yet another layer to this book. Cannot forget Norman the dog. While we don't get his inner musings he is a character that I promise will be memorable in a couple of ways. This is a believable romance novel that does not drown the reader in sap or even angst. It is a balanced and well paced read that has me eager to read more by Ms Moyes.