Helpful Score: 11
This was my first Susan Wiggs novel. It was awesome. Character development was top notch. I found myself not wanting to put the book down and when I turned to the last page, I didn't want the story to end. It's captivating and beautiful ~ A story of what you thought you loved was not really your 'true' love and learning how to grow from that and finding what the future holds is not what you thought it would be like. I gave this book 5 stars.
Helpful Score: 6
Sometimes the love you think you have is only a sham - when you take a closer look. What then? Wall yourself in and never love again because of the hurt? Susan Wiggs takes you on a jouney of love lost and love found. Not a new journey, but a fresh, new approach which makes for a delightful read.
Helpful Score: 4
Wow! Talk about a waste of time. Poorly written, character development was childish, storyline was ridiculously predictable. Would not recommend.
A very sweet romance, soothing to the soul. Funny and heartbreaking at the same time. Susan Wiggs is a master at blending emotion.
Sarah Moon has caught her cheating husband "in the act" - not missing the irony of his infidelity occurring at the same moment she is undergoing fertility treatments because he is "unable" to give her the child she so desperately wants. She flees to the comfort of the same small California coastal town she couldn't wait to leave as a teen.
Sarah, a cartoonist, chronicles her struggles through her strip, "Just Breathe" and finds that sometimes, that really is the best advice of all. Just breathe.
Sarah Moon has caught her cheating husband "in the act" - not missing the irony of his infidelity occurring at the same moment she is undergoing fertility treatments because he is "unable" to give her the child she so desperately wants. She flees to the comfort of the same small California coastal town she couldn't wait to leave as a teen.
Sarah, a cartoonist, chronicles her struggles through her strip, "Just Breathe" and finds that sometimes, that really is the best advice of all. Just breathe.
Helpful Score: 3
I found myself just not wanting to put this book down. Great read...funny, charming, and romantic.
Helpful Score: 3
would have given it five stars if the wit from the beginning carried through the book. it was predicitable, but a good beach read. my mother-in-law has it now, so I can't repost for now :)
Helpful Score: 2
Very good story and I appreciate the anticipation of the story unfolding. Blending families and healing hearts are difficult tasks. This book deals with both issues on defferent levels that I could relate to easily.
Helpful Score: 1
VERY good book. Couldn't put it down.
Helpful Score: 1
I love all of Susan Wiggs' books and this was one especially great. I could not put the book down. The main character Sarah has a comic strip that seems to resemble her real life. When an unfortunate event sends her running home, she realizes her life wasn't what she thought it was. She finds out that you really can go home again. Keep a box of tissue nearby, because this book will have you laughing and crying all the way through.
Helpful Score: 1
The book was a quick read. Left me wainting more from the characters, felt like something was missing the entire time. Good but not excellent read.
Helpful Score: 1
I really enjoyed this book. Its the first I've ever read of the author and I have picked up several of her books since then. This is by far my favorite.
Helpful Score: 1
After uprooting her life and fashioning her life to please her husband and inlaws, seeing her husband through a life threatening illness, the main character is betrayed. The plot deals with her becoming independent, accepting and meshing with her family, creating a new life, and discovering her identity. and a new love.
Book was better than I expected, not the same old contemporary romance. Recommend it.
Book was better than I expected, not the same old contemporary romance. Recommend it.
3.5 to 4 stars. Enjoyable read, nice change of pace. Great characters. I like Susan Wiggs.
Wonderful story. I wasn't ready for the story to end
I absolutely loved this book and didn't want it to end!
I loved this book. It was a quick purchase for a Spring Break weekend READ.. My first Susan Wiggs book.
Sarah and Jack were first introduced in "Dockside" as visitors to the Willow Lake Inn in Greg and Nina's story. There, Jack and Sarah tried to reconnect after Jack's recovery from cancer. Oddly that one little scene in "Dockside" was a great glimpse at the their trouble marriage where Sarah was more like a mom and Jack like a child than husband and wife.
As Sarah tried to rebuild her life and career, I liked the fact that she starts to see her part in the divorce. No, it wasn't her fault Jack cheated but she did play a part in the relationship falling apart. She does a lot of growing and self-searching as well as reconnecting with her family.
It is very predictable. There were parts that weren't written very smoothly but I found myself enjoying the book. I wished more time was spent on catching the firebug though. It was a nice, slow read.
As Sarah tried to rebuild her life and career, I liked the fact that she starts to see her part in the divorce. No, it wasn't her fault Jack cheated but she did play a part in the relationship falling apart. She does a lot of growing and self-searching as well as reconnecting with her family.
It is very predictable. There were parts that weren't written very smoothly but I found myself enjoying the book. I wished more time was spent on catching the firebug though. It was a nice, slow read.
A fun book---fast reading.
When this book begins 20-something Sarah Moon is undergoing infertility treatments and her husband, a successful contractor, is getting on with his life after recovering from testicular cancer treatment. Sarah has nursed him through it all, putting her life on hold, and is just beginning to get back into the swing of things. She misses the intimacy they once shared but understands that he is still recovering. One afternoon, after going the insemination treatment alone (yet again), she surprises him with pizza at his jobsite and discovers he's been feeling fine enough to fool around with another woman.
Sarah calmly picks up a sledgehammer and knocks him a good one upside the head. While he's out cold and drooling she removes his remaining testicle with a box cutter and plops it in her purse for safe-keeping. Then she sits down in the comfy deep pile of the newly installed carpet, away from the trickle of blood so as not to sully her two-hundred dollar boots, to enjoy the pizza she no longer has to share and plots her future. Whoops, never mind, that was what I would have done. . . Instead Sarah puts the food down and says "I brought you a pizza and a coke with extra ice", hops in her vehicle and runs down a newly installed mailbox instead of her pig of a husband. Then she takes a road trip with her tail between her legs and moves in with her dad.
She sinks into a depression but it slowly begins to lift when she is given the keys to her auntie's peaceful cabin and she meets a young girl named Aurora who takes an interest in her artistic talents and just happens to have a hunky and very single step-dad whom she knew growing up. From here the book turns into a rather long-winded tale of rebuilding a life and finding true love despite the fact that she discovers she's pregnant with twins from the sperm injection.
This was a pleasant read, the characters were good people and the hero was charming though a bit too dreamy to be completely believable.
Sarah calmly picks up a sledgehammer and knocks him a good one upside the head. While he's out cold and drooling she removes his remaining testicle with a box cutter and plops it in her purse for safe-keeping. Then she sits down in the comfy deep pile of the newly installed carpet, away from the trickle of blood so as not to sully her two-hundred dollar boots, to enjoy the pizza she no longer has to share and plots her future. Whoops, never mind, that was what I would have done. . . Instead Sarah puts the food down and says "I brought you a pizza and a coke with extra ice", hops in her vehicle and runs down a newly installed mailbox instead of her pig of a husband. Then she takes a road trip with her tail between her legs and moves in with her dad.
She sinks into a depression but it slowly begins to lift when she is given the keys to her auntie's peaceful cabin and she meets a young girl named Aurora who takes an interest in her artistic talents and just happens to have a hunky and very single step-dad whom she knew growing up. From here the book turns into a rather long-winded tale of rebuilding a life and finding true love despite the fact that she discovers she's pregnant with twins from the sperm injection.
This was a pleasant read, the characters were good people and the hero was charming though a bit too dreamy to be completely believable.
This was a very good book. I had a hard time putting it down and read it in a few days.
ok read by predictable
I enjoyed this story...it went fast and held my attention through the entire book...good story...no surprises...
I'm not experienced personally with divorce but from a wife and mother's viewpoint I think I would like to be able to respond to spousal betrayal somewhat like this lady did.
I know it's just a story but I'm rather glad she didn't cave in and go back to her ex. In my book, he doesn't deserve her. I'm for forgiveness if I can see genuine remorse but I don't think it would be easy for me. I like this ladies courage, she is pregnant with ex'es twins, and her ability to just keep going. She does meet a guy from high school who crushed her then but he has grown up and they get involved and it is done with much tho't and caution. He has a teenage daughter too which he adopted from a previous marriage done on graduation celebration weekend. Both looking for answers and a partner to trust. Good story.
I know it's just a story but I'm rather glad she didn't cave in and go back to her ex. In my book, he doesn't deserve her. I'm for forgiveness if I can see genuine remorse but I don't think it would be easy for me. I like this ladies courage, she is pregnant with ex'es twins, and her ability to just keep going. She does meet a guy from high school who crushed her then but he has grown up and they get involved and it is done with much tho't and caution. He has a teenage daughter too which he adopted from a previous marriage done on graduation celebration weekend. Both looking for answers and a partner to trust. Good story.
Another awesome book. I really feel like I know the characters and understand the feelings portrayed. Love the hunky fireman!
I didn't like this book. To be fair, it's not the type of book I read normally, so I'm sure that had something to do with it. The dialogue was very awkward sometimes. I just thought there would be more to the story, and I was disappointed.
I really enjoyed this book! It's an easy summer read about a woman who finds herself pregnant with twins while filing for divorce and she also falls in love unexpectedly during this time with an old high school rival.
This was a quick and easy read. I enjoyed it.
Great book. Susan Wiggs does it again.
I was extremely suprised when I started to read this.It was like reliving my past and the car I had was a rebuilt 73 Dodge Charger bronze/gold.I took it across country and back.I kept it until my daughter started driving.
Good story...easy read.
Sarah Moon tackles life's issues w/a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip, Just Breath. With both Sarah & her cartoon heroine undergoing fertility treatments, her fiction often reflects her reality. However, she hadn't scripted her husband's infidility.
In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah flees to the coastal town in California where she grew up. There, shee revisits her troubling past: an emotionally distant father, the loss of her mother & an unexpected connection w/Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob skewered mercilessly in her comics. But he's been through some changes himself. And just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah makes a most startling discovery. She's pregnant. With her ex's twins!
In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah flees to the coastal town in California where she grew up. There, shee revisits her troubling past: an emotionally distant father, the loss of her mother & an unexpected connection w/Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob skewered mercilessly in her comics. But he's been through some changes himself. And just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah makes a most startling discovery. She's pregnant. With her ex's twins!
Okay, so I heard a lot of great things about this book and a lot of people said they liked it, but I was just really not all that impressed. The writing was not very good and it was very predictable. I mean, it wasn't BAD, just very brainless chick lit. All in all, with all the great books out there (my to-be-read pile gets bigger every month thanks to this website), I would not recommend wasting time reading this one.
When this book begins 20-something Sarah Moon is undergoing infertility treatments and her husband, a successful contractor, is getting on with his life after recovering from testicular cancer treatment. Sarah has nursed him through it all, putting her life on hold, and is just beginning to get back into the swing of things. She misses the intimacy they once shared but understands that he is still recovering. One afternoon, after going the insemination treatment alone (yet again), she surprises him with pizza at his jobsite and discovers he's been feeling fine enough to fool around with another woman.
Sarah calmly picks up a sledgehammer and knocks him a good one upside the head. While he's out cold and drooling she removes his remaining testicle with a box cutter and plops it in her purse for safe-keeping. Then she sits down in the comfy deep pile of the newly installed carpet, away from the trickle of blood so as not to sully her two-hundred dollar boots, to enjoy the pizza she no longer has to share and plots her future. Whoops, never mind, that was what I would have done. . . Instead Sarah puts the food down and says "I brought you a pizza and a coke with extra ice", hops in her vehicle and runs down a newly installed mailbox instead of her pig of a husband. Then she takes a road trip with her tail between her legs and moves in with her dad.
She sinks into a depression but it slowly begins to lift when she is given the keys to her auntie's peaceful cabin and she meets a young girl named Aurora who takes an interest in her artistic talents and just happens to have a hunky and very single step-dad whom she knew growing up. From here the book turns into a rather long-winded tale of rebuilding a life and finding true love despite the fact that she discovers she's pregnant with twins from the sperm injection.
This was a pleasant read, the characters were good people and the hero was charming though a bit too dreamy to be completely believable.
Sarah calmly picks up a sledgehammer and knocks him a good one upside the head. While he's out cold and drooling she removes his remaining testicle with a box cutter and plops it in her purse for safe-keeping. Then she sits down in the comfy deep pile of the newly installed carpet, away from the trickle of blood so as not to sully her two-hundred dollar boots, to enjoy the pizza she no longer has to share and plots her future. Whoops, never mind, that was what I would have done. . . Instead Sarah puts the food down and says "I brought you a pizza and a coke with extra ice", hops in her vehicle and runs down a newly installed mailbox instead of her pig of a husband. Then she takes a road trip with her tail between her legs and moves in with her dad.
She sinks into a depression but it slowly begins to lift when she is given the keys to her auntie's peaceful cabin and she meets a young girl named Aurora who takes an interest in her artistic talents and just happens to have a hunky and very single step-dad whom she knew growing up. From here the book turns into a rather long-winded tale of rebuilding a life and finding true love despite the fact that she discovers she's pregnant with twins from the sperm injection.
This was a pleasant read, the characters were good people and the hero was charming though a bit too dreamy to be completely believable.
My boyfriend presented me with this book as a suprise. Although I had never heard of this author, I read the back, thought it looked interesting, and gave it a go. Wow! I loved it! It was exactly the type of book I needed at the time...I'd definately reccommend it to any lover of 'chic lit'..especially to those women out there like myself who like a book with some "umph"
Just breathe
liked the story, the characters
easy pleasant story. recommend it
liked the story, the characters
easy pleasant story. recommend it
Enjoyed this book, however could tell what was going to happen. Gives people hope and nice story. Did like it and glad I read it.
This book was enjoyable to read, but a bit contrived. I never felt like the main character was fully formed and believable. Dispite that it is still a good summer beach book.
