When You Go Away

My reading mojo has been missing for awhile, but this quick read had me determined to see how this painful but understandable family drama was resolved. As a mother, I had a great deal of empathy for these characters…and as an older woman, I have learned that we can never predict where our breaking point is as we deal with what life hands us…and most importantly to withhold judgement of another’s life. This is more a 3.5 for me.

I was sent this book and one other by the author (signed) after I won an ACR of her finale of the Beautiful Beings trilogy. It's possible that I didn't like this book because I'm not a mother. But even so, I found myself appalled -- besides the fact that this is (apparently) a jarring true story -- that a woman would simply abandon her three children, one of which suffers from a degenerative muscular disorder, after a breakdown. Besides the content and plot of the book, I couldn't get into the w

This book was kind of lame and pretty much went on and on and on. I felt like it had an overall sympathy for the wrong person, but alas, it ended up being just like the story in real life would've been. In other words, it was really uneventful.