This was the second book in a week that I read with a cheating husband, and at this point mine better sleep with one eye open. Just kidding! But really. This book was a mess. I wanted to slap the main character in much the same way I wanted to slap the last one. Stop letting these dog men treat you like dirt then walk right back like nothing happened! LOVE YOURSELF GIRL.
At the beginning of this book, the main character, Daphne, is planning her husband's birthday. Daphne is a doctor just like her man. They were childhood sweethearts who moved apart and found each other again as adults. Her life is perfect, or so she thinks. When her husband comes home he tells her that he has been having an affair and that he has feelings for the other woman. He leaves her for the woman, and later on she gets a phone call from him saying that his mistress has been in an accident and that he needs her shoulder to cry on.
At this point, I wouldn't have even answered his calls much less entertained the thought. But she does. And even though she starts seeing someone else (way too soon IMO) she does this back and forth thing with Owen for a while, which was more irritating than anything else. I get that they had a history and that she loved him, but come on. He didn't want kids and she did, he treated her job like a joke even though they BOTH went to medical school, and let's not forget HE CHOSE SOMEONE ELSE and only went back to his wife because his other woman DIED. (spoiler alert). Eventually she realizes what I did on page one: she needs to be alone and fix her own life before depending on a man to fix it for her. So she dumps both men and hopefully grows a spine and a brain (we don't know what happens to her after that because that's where it ends)
This whole book was just nah for me. It went way too fast, the characters were ridiculous and it honestly just made me angry. There are enough doormats in the real world, do we have to expect them from our female book characters as well?
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