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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this book, one of the much talked about book club reads that I remember coming into the store when I was a bookseller in 2008. It was chosen as a Barnes and Noble Recommends title and I always found the cover to be very attractive and it's a book I've wanted to read for a long time. I'm glad I finally made the time to read it, it was very interesting the way the secrets of the characters gradually unfold until that one moment when *Gasp!* one Dev puts together the disparate threads and the world falls in. I loved the interplay between the women, from bitchy to mean to incredibly loving. Secrets, no matter how good the secret keeper, leak out.
Meh. City gal moves to the suburbs, where it’s apparently 1960, complete with every stereotype of boring women. Could not get past the first few chapters. Maybe it gets better, but life is short.
A disappointing sequel to Love Walked In. There were just too many story threads that did miraculously weave together at the end, but I really wanted more attention spent on Cornelia and Teo, the main characters from the first in this series. Cornelia and Teo are newly married and trying to start a family, when they move to Philly for Teo's job. The neighbors are not very nice, especially Piper, but Cornelia's sunny disposition wins her over and they become fast friends. There are bumps in the road and improbable coincidences that wrap up nicely in the end.
Marisa de los Santos writes what I call "emotionally intelligent" stories. Unlike a lot of stories about women going through changes in their lives or exploring their relationships, her characters don't do blatantly stupid things and they don't go through the whole book choosing unhealthy relationships. They do the opposite. They choose healthy, growing people to hang around with, and nurture those relationships.
Somehow she finds enough tension to make the story interesting among her beautiful people.
Somehow she finds enough tension to make the story interesting among her beautiful people.
the book was ok, but I almost quit listening several times. I listened to this one and the musical transitions were so horrible that I almost couldn't get past them. So to all the audiobook producers out there, please stop with the music. While I know that I don't speak for everyone, it is not necessary. But, if you must use music, please for the love of all that is holy, do not let it drown out the narrator ever. also, if you must use music at least make it good music that goes along with the story. But mostly DO NOT USE MUSIC. I didn't know this was #2 in a series, but because of the music I won't be picking up #1 and #3.
As with [b:Love Walked In|115076|Love Walked In|Marisa de los Santos|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171698450s/115076.jpg|3000860], the strength of this book is in the characters. There's some overlap with the characters in Love Walked In, but there are also lots of new ones.
I enjoyed revisiting the characters from Love Walked In. Cornelia, Clare, and Teo are all living different lives than they were at the end of the previous book, but they are recognizably the same people.
With the new suburban setting, there are some new characters, most notably Piper (the quintessential suburban queen bee), Lake (a quirky single mom, and Cornelia's first friend in her new home), and Dev (Lake's teenage son, who is trying to solve the mystery of his father).
The look into relationships was fascinating, as the webs between people in the community formed and re-formed. Secrets and their consequences is an ongoing theme of this book. As in life, the primary impact of a secret is often on those that don't even know that there is information being withheld from them.
All of the characters I mentioned above have serious decisions to make during the course of the book, and they all make for interesting reading. Best of all is the sides of the characters that are revealed. Everyone has unexpected aspects to their past, to their personalities. Their views of themselves and of each other are in constant flux.
I'm really looking forward to Marissa de Los Santos's next book, and I hope it comes soon!
I enjoyed revisiting the characters from Love Walked In. Cornelia, Clare, and Teo are all living different lives than they were at the end of the previous book, but they are recognizably the same people.
With the new suburban setting, there are some new characters, most notably Piper (the quintessential suburban queen bee), Lake (a quirky single mom, and Cornelia's first friend in her new home), and Dev (Lake's teenage son, who is trying to solve the mystery of his father).
The look into relationships was fascinating, as the webs between people in the community formed and re-formed. Secrets and their consequences is an ongoing theme of this book. As in life, the primary impact of a secret is often on those that don't even know that there is information being withheld from them.
All of the characters I mentioned above have serious decisions to make during the course of the book, and they all make for interesting reading. Best of all is the sides of the characters that are revealed. Everyone has unexpected aspects to their past, to their personalities. Their views of themselves and of each other are in constant flux.
I'm really looking forward to Marissa de Los Santos's next book, and I hope it comes soon!
This is book two of the "Love Walked In" trilogy. In book one, I enjoyed the literature and movie references and those continued here. With the characters of Dev Tremain and his mother Lake, de los Santos adds science into the narrative, which is delightful. I like the way each chapter has a focus on a particular character, but only Cornelia's chapters are written in the first person. It's a clever writing tool that makes me turn the pages even more quickly. Now to begin book three...
