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Summary: An intriguing 5 star read
Review: The Woman Next Door focuses on three married couples, two with children, and a widow who live on a cul-de-sac. Amanda and Graham have the perfect life-except for the baby they want so much to have and can't. Georgia and Russ have reverse roles with Russ being the stay at home parent and Georgia the traveling business woman. Karen and Lee have the most turbulent marriage of the three couples. Karen is a stay at home mom who volunteers for everything and Lee is the computer wizard who owns his own business and has a record of cheating on his wife. Gretchen is the lonely widow who is pregnant. When the women of the cul-de-sac find out Gretchen is pregnant distrust runs wild in the minds of the three wives as they try to figure out who the father is. They not only suspect their friends husbands but also their own.This book was absolutely wonderful. It was my first, but definitely not last, Delinsky novel. The plot was well thought out and the characters were well developed. It was almost like reading a whodunit novel. Ms. Delinsky keeps you riveted to the pages until the end when you find out who the father is. This is a book about self-discovery and discovery about other people and what makes them tick. The storyline of teen suicide was very well written. Ms. Delinsky obviusly did her research well and did an excellent job of writing this book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone. It is a great read and is a book to read more than once. Definitly a keeper.
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Summary: Who is the Woman Next Door?
Review: In The Woman Next Door Barbara Delinsky has written a simple character study of 4 totally different women and 3 spouses who live next door to each other on a cul-de-sac. The story is slow paced as she develops each one - the couple desperately trying to have a baby but work and family responsiblilities hindering their attempts; the stay at home Mr. Mom/Mom couple where the wife is the main breadwinner wrestling with guilt; the stay at home super mom with a philandering husband; and then the widowed, but pregnant Gretchen. How each react to Gretchen is the main plot but subplots of carefree romance, loving according to the clock, suicide, career first, concern and lack of concern for children, a runaway kid, breaking and entering and family interference show how ordinary people do live. There's trust and distrust, deception, love, faith, loyalty,courage and friendship at every turn. This is what many peoples' lives are all about today. Barbara took the ordinary and created a novel depicting many problems in real life. Not the best of Delinsky - my personal favorite being Coast Road - but a satisfying read nevertheless.
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Summary: Repititious, repititious, repititious
Review: How many ways can the same freaking thing be written? Get on with some meat. I will not read "Barb'" again.
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Summary: Repititious, repititious, repititious
Review: How many ways can the same freaking thing be written? Get on with some meat. I will not read "Barb'" again.
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Summary: Lots of twists and turns
Review: This is my favorite book I have read so far this summer. It starts off detailing the relationship of and Amanda and Gray, but after they are married, expands to include their close-knit neighborhood. I started out disliking the young, pregnant widow Gretchen (as the other women characters did), but as they got to know her, so did I. Her baby's father is revealed at the end and is quite a surprise. Once you start this book, you will not want to put it down. The characters are wonderful and the plot definitely realistic, this story could be anytown USA.
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Summary: Trust is the most important thing!
Review: AN INTERESTING READ. A GROUP OF FRIENDS LEARN THAT THEIR SINGLE, NO MAN IN HER LIFE NEIGHBOR IS PREGNANT. WHO IS THE FATHER? WILL MARRIAGES STAY STRONG OR SHATTER TO LITTLE BITS?
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Summary: Sappy, inaccurate portrayal of infertility
Review: I'd been anxious to read this book because I've had infertility for four years and wanted to see how a fictional character dealt with it. This storyline was such a disappointment. While the author acknowledges that she hasn't experienced infertility, I felt she should have done more research into the actual medicine (i.e., one doesn't just do ICSI standalone, as she suggests). And of course, even here the infertile couple ends up with a happy ending (unlike real life). I felt this book was an insult to couples experiencing infertility. I put this book down with a sour taste in my mouth and a vow to not read any more of this author's work.
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Summary: Don't waste your time.
Review: The story is pretty good. But everything is repeated over and over and over..... It is so obvious that the author had 'so many pages' requirement for this book.
I did not get to the very end of the book. Just lost interest due to all this repetition. It is a shame that a story with such strong potential turned into such a boring book.
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Summary: A bit slow paced
Review: This was my first Barbara Delinksy book and I have to say I wasn't terribly impressed. The back cover made the book sound as if it was going to be much more exciting that it actually was. Graham and Amanda's storyline got to be a bit monotonous, but it did give you an idea what childless couples go through trying to have a baby. However, this is not really my kind of book. It was a bit too slow paced for me though some people might really enjoy it as it deals with a lot of real to life issues. The father to Gretchen's baby was a bit of a disappointment too. I expected a more explosive ending. I gave this book three stars because it wasn't awful, but it wasn't really exciting either.
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Summary: stupid and predictable
Review: I read it until the end but it was a boring soap opera. I kept thinking it would get better but it didn't. Not even a good beach read.
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