I won this book from the BookishFist raffle. The author was very generous to send a tea bag and bookmark.
The gist of the story is good. A devoted wife, chronic cheating husband. Wife finally manages to leave the asshole, build a new life only to take that donkey back in her life. Like seriously woman, you have anxiety to a level of passing out and vomiting and still will not leave him!?
This is one of the few books that will sit in the corner of my bookshelf because I am not reading it again. Her constant narrative with God and faith was way over the top. On one hand, Julie is shown to be very smart, independent and on the other, she cannot confront to her husband when he started cheating. Well, except that one time she did. She wrote everything in a journal which she hid in the garden. The part where she leaves the marriage makes sense but the narrative just watered it down. How does a woman who walks out of a marriage with almost 5 millions dollars not get therapy with this sort of PTSD is over my head. Even then she will cry and panic and have all the other characters come to comfort her. The parts where Julie talks to new friends and staff at the inn sounds like a very badly dubbed movie. Again, narrative issues. Her former best friend Lynnae is equally bad. She is in denial that the father figure/chronic cheater will cheat. Instead of supporting her friend, she just brushes it off. In her newly acquired independent life, she is going back and forth with the new guy who is blind in love with her. Their interactions are just too much. Like, get it together Julie!! It was a letdown for me.
The gist of the story is good. A devoted wife, chronic cheating husband. Wife finally manages to leave the asshole, build a new life only to take that donkey back in her life. Like seriously woman, you have anxiety to a level of passing out and vomiting and still will not leave him!?
This is one of the few books that will sit in the corner of my bookshelf because I am not reading it again. Her constant narrative with God and faith was way over the top. On one hand, Julie is shown to be very smart, independent and on the other, she cannot confront to her husband when he started cheating. Well, except that one time she did. She wrote everything in a journal which she hid in the garden. The part where she leaves the marriage makes sense but the narrative just watered it down. How does a woman who walks out of a marriage with almost 5 millions dollars not get therapy with this sort of PTSD is over my head. Even then she will cry and panic and have all the other characters come to comfort her. The parts where Julie talks to new friends and staff at the inn sounds like a very badly dubbed movie. Again, narrative issues. Her former best friend Lynnae is equally bad. She is in denial that the father figure/chronic cheater will cheat. Instead of supporting her friend, she just brushes it off. In her newly acquired independent life, she is going back and forth with the new guy who is blind in love with her. Their interactions are just too much. Like, get it together Julie!! It was a letdown for me.