However, in retrospect, I believe this was an integral part of the story. This was a fabulous book! I initially gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because I thought it started off rather slowly with a lot of flash backs & background information.
I was so mad reading this book, I actually kept a note pad next to me, noting everything in this book that ticked me off. #8) Finally, REALLY, the sterotypes of the Irish being drunks. #7) It took FIFTEEN years to rediscover their child? If Alex hadn't started to feel guilty, would Brooke ever had? Something wrong there! #6) Why is Brooke prostituting herself to Alex to get him to put up money for the newly discovered disabled child? #5) Why does the former boyfriend, Alex the father of the poor, disabled little girl left to die, keep calling that little girl a "HE"? I read the whole book and never figured that out. #4) Brooke's boss is dying, transfers her to a new location and promotion, and she just up and disappears for a week without calling in? And the boss just forgives her and sets up a trust upon his death, giving her everything? REALLY?
#3) Sean, Brooke's husband and his large family, are all butting in regarding how many children each of them should be producing? Really? Please tell me in anyone's family, when is that anyone's business? #2) As a teenager, Brooke had a very open relationship with her mother regarding birth control and the decision to choose the diaphram over the pill.how the HECK can Brooke NOT tell her mother that she is pregnant? How the HECK can her mother or father not notice that the skinny, only child Brooke is heavier? This does NOT make sense.but wait, the author takes Brooke to a "witch doctor" (my words) to drink a magic potion to miscarry, which doesn't happen. #1) This is supposed to be two very smart teens at the time of their decision to go to a MOTEL and deliver a child (third trimester) with the help of a metal SPOON? Then wrap the child in a MOTEL towel and put in a wooden crate in the rain by the DUMPSTER.This makes me ILL to even think of it.
Let me list my reasons for my dislike of this book:įirst of all, let me state that I am pro-choice, BUT not as a method of birth control in the third trimester. Weak moment at Target:(.My decision to purchase this book weighed mostly on one of my favorite author's (Wally Lamb) recommendation comment on the cover of the book. I am not happy that I paid money for this book.
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