Release Date: June 1, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Source: Purchased
From Goodreads: Just when she's finally figured out how to manage on her own, Jill Murray's ex-husband, Seth, is back crashing into the man-free existence Jill and her ten-year-old daughter, Anastasia, have built so carefully. Jill's life just hasn't turned out quite the way she'd planned. By now, she'd hoped to be jetting around the world as a high-end cultural coach. Instead, she's answering phones for a local travel agency and teaching cooking classes at the community center. Enter free-spirited entrepreneur Billy who hires Jill as a consultant for an upcoming business trip. Suddenly, her no-boys-allowed life is anything but.
They say that every seven years you become a completely new person, but Jill isn't sure she's ready to make the leap. It takes a Costa Rican getaway to help her make a choice not so much between the two men in her life, but between the woman she is and the woman she wants to be.
My review: The husband that up and leaves his wife and daughter is not the husband who is wanted 7 years later. But, Jill doesn’t really have a choice when Seth is back…she has to think of her daughter and what’s best for her. I found myself enjoying this story, but unable to decide which way I wanted the plot to go. Should Jill let him back into their lives? Should she slam the door in his face? And then came the budding romance – now I really didn’t have a clue how I wanted anything to go. I must confess that I had figured out one of the big events that occurred with both men before it occurred, but that didn’t damper the story much. Her end of the story trip to Costa Rica was beautifully described and written – I wanted to hop on a plane myself.
This is a good general fiction (bordering on chic-lit) for a quicker read but a story with real depth too.
No he is not allowed back in! Haha just kidding. I hate it when I feel this way. Sometimes you just don't want it to work out that way. Nice review.
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