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A review by anabelsbrother
Making It Last by Ruthie Knox
4.0
First read: November 2013
I don't know if it's just me being too emotional but all the while I was reading I was like HOLD ME
It's a story about what happens after that whole falling in love business. Tony and Amber from How To Misbehave are now together for thirteen years, married for ten. They are both different people than they were back in the first book. Tony is working himself to death, and Amber is up to her last shred of sanity trying to handle three growing boys. The stress is beginning to feel like too much for Amber, and she's depressed.
I never asked for this to happen to me, she wanted to tell him. I’ve just been trying so hard for so long, I don’t have anything left. Not for you. Not even for me.
I don’t know who I am anymore.
Tony knows there is something off with his wife, but he doesn't know the reason, what to do or whether he could fix it.
Their marriage was a system with no slack in it. They had work, they had three kids, they had ten or twenty minutes together in bed at night before they fell asleep. He didn’t know what was wrong with Amber—what was making her cry—and frankly he was afraid to find out. He’d been afraid to find out for a long time.
Because he was pretty sure that whatever it was, he couldn’t fix it.
Marriage is work, that's what I gathered from this book. It's kind of scary, to be honest. That kind of hopelessness is scary to read.
But the key to working out anything is to communicate. And that's what these two did (THANK GOD).
I knew there was NO way this would end up badly, that they couldn't work it out, but I was still scared nonetheless.
Great read.
p.s The Author's Note was brilliant too.
Reread: March 2017
Still great. /wails
Reread: February 2018
I reread this last night before bed and I'm still emo now
Anyway, I talked about this book (along with some others) in my latest blog post on Married Romance here.
I don't know if it's just me being too emotional but all the while I was reading I was like HOLD ME
It's a story about what happens after that whole falling in love business. Tony and Amber from How To Misbehave are now together for thirteen years, married for ten. They are both different people than they were back in the first book. Tony is working himself to death, and Amber is up to her last shred of sanity trying to handle three growing boys. The stress is beginning to feel like too much for Amber, and she's depressed.
I never asked for this to happen to me, she wanted to tell him. I’ve just been trying so hard for so long, I don’t have anything left. Not for you. Not even for me.
I don’t know who I am anymore.
Tony knows there is something off with his wife, but he doesn't know the reason, what to do or whether he could fix it.
Their marriage was a system with no slack in it. They had work, they had three kids, they had ten or twenty minutes together in bed at night before they fell asleep. He didn’t know what was wrong with Amber—what was making her cry—and frankly he was afraid to find out. He’d been afraid to find out for a long time.
Because he was pretty sure that whatever it was, he couldn’t fix it.
Marriage is work, that's what I gathered from this book. It's kind of scary, to be honest. That kind of hopelessness is scary to read.
But the key to working out anything is to communicate. And that's what these two did (THANK GOD).
I knew there was NO way this would end up badly, that they couldn't work it out, but I was still scared nonetheless.
Great read.
p.s The Author's Note was brilliant too.
Reread: March 2017
Still great. /wails
Reread: February 2018
I reread this last night before bed and I'm still emo now
Anyway, I talked about this book (along with some others) in my latest blog post on Married Romance here.