My first Dorothy Koomson book didn't go so well because of the subject matter. And I had to abandon ship earlier in the year. I decided to give her another try. This story is about Kamryn, whose best friend Adele had slept with Kamryn's fiance years ago. Their friendship deteriorated after Kamryn found out. But then Adele contacts Kamryn, telling her that she is dying, and wants Kamryn to adopt her daughter Tegan (who is incidentally the child from the affair). Kamryn agrees, reluctantly at first. But once Tegan comes into her life, Kamryn realizes how much she loves her. The book had a very interesting premise and I was very hopeful. But after Adele dies (which is somewhat early in the book) and they've recapped all the past history, the story kind of stagnates for a long while. Like, there's 100 pages in the middle that are just tediously redundant. Kamryn ends up with 2 love interests (one being the guy that cheated on her, Tegan's father) and both love interests are hard to relate to at all. One doesn't like her, but likes the child. The other likes her, but not the child. I just had a hard time wondering why she'd want to be with either of them. It was kind of a lose/lose situation, in my opinion. The love story sort of ruined the whole premise of the book for me. It took away from the lessons Kamryn was learning and the life she was creating with Tegan. Great idea, just not implemented well.
This one had 341 pages.
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