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Summary: FAST READ
Review: This is a great story that you can just dive right into. I just recently started reading her books again. After I read "Three Wishes", I decided she was just too harsh and I couldn't go back for more.. but I am glad I finally did. The plot is great. Some other reviewers find it predictable.. but I did not in the least. The character development is perfect. Just enough.. some authors tend to have too many characters and too much about each one. No overkill here. Just a really fast and touching story. I think you'll enjoy it.
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Summary: Actually I rate it a 3 Plus - hard copy
Review: Barbara Delinsky grabs your attention right away in the first few pages. This is important to me. This story revolves mainly around one couple, Amanda and Graham who are trying unsuccesfully to have a baby. They live in the perfect town, in a cul-de-sac with two other families and a pregnant widow. The story does weave you into the personal lives of all 3 families in the cul-de-sac, their jobs, and their personal relationships with each other. In true Delinksy fashion, she has the reader feeling she/he knows these people personally. You root for the childless couple, you grieve for the troubled teens, and you get involved emotionally with the various personalities and sub-plots in the story - what a good fiction should do for a reader, is keep them turning those pages, it did me. She has written better ones, but this one keeps your interest even if the ending is predictable.
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Summary: An entertaining but none-the-less thought provoking story!
Review: The Woman Next Door by gifted storyteller Barbara Delinsky is an entertaining, but none-the-less thought provoking story about three married couples who appear to be happy, content and very much in love on the outer surface, but quite the opposite in reality. The three wives start to question their future happiness with their marital mates when the young, sexy widow next door becomes pregant. Is one of their husband's the father of this unborn child?
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Summary: Dissappointing at Best
Review: The synopsis of this book sounded wonderful but the actual contents left something to be desired. I was extremely disappointed by who the father of the baby actually was. That wasn't a good ending to me. It needed just a bit more drama, more jealousy, and more suspicion to get 5 stars from me.
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Summary: What fluff!
Review: After reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, picking up this book was like finishing a fine gourment meal with a twinkie. Granted, you can't be that wonderful of a writer when you spit out 60 books in 20 years. Hell, it probably took me longer to read it (1 day) than it took for her to write it. This book was reminescent of a bad TV movie where you know how it is going to end, it's horrible, but you keep watching because you can't reach the remote. Look out Jackie Collins, you have some competition.
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Summary: First book that I have ever..........
Review: This is the first book that I have ever read of Ms.Delinsky's and I truly loved it.The characters were so real and I loved Amanda and Gray.........I was wanting to read more about the two of them.Especially at the end........I will be reading more of Ms Delinsky's books.........................
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Summary: Dumb woman
Review: I have enjoyed Delinsky's books for the most part. However in this book, it is very hard to read about Amanda who can't even follow one aspect of her own advice. Just not up to Delinsky's Coast Road, etc.
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Summary: Enjoyable Glimpse of Life on Upper Middle Class Cul-de-Sac
Review: This is the first book I've read by Barbara Delinsky but it won't be the last. I love the way she writes about real people with real problems, real emotions, and real solutions. In this novel, we meet four women--a dedicated school psychologist whose biggest wish is to become pregnant, a savvy businesswoman married to Mr. Mom, the supermom who leads every school committee but can't control her philandering husband, and the rich, young, widow who is pregnant by an unknown lover. Naturally, all the other three women on the cul-de-sac suspect their husband of being the father. Each marriage is under just enough stress to cause each wife to jump to this conclusion. But which one will be correct? This is the stuff soap operas are made of, but if you want something light and easy to wrap yourself in for a few days, this is the book for you. Delinsky accurately portrays the stress of not being able to conceive, the pressure of being married to a wayward husband, the guilt of letting your career separate you from your family, and the loneliness of the neighborhood "outsider." She also adds the drama of a teen suicide and enough sexually-charged scenes to keep you turning the pages.
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Summary: Quick Read, Good Story, but predictable
Review: I have read all of Barbara Delinsky's books and have not been disappointed. The Women Next Door was a very good book and and a nice story. She addressed the emotions around trying to conceive a child extremely well. The story was nice, but the ending was predictable. I think she could have done more with some of the other charaters to make the story line a bit more intreging. I'd get this one from the library or wait for the paperback.
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Summary: Pressure, Paranoia and Panic can really hurt a marriage
Review: I liked The Woman Next Door because of it's realism. The situations in which the book is based upon could actually happened in any town in any city. You have couple who wants to have a child for both the right and wrong reasons and the curiousity of one woman's pregnancy that makes the husbands in the community the primes suspects. The Woman Next Door can teach couple to face the pressure of the outside world by believing in the love they have for each other inside their hearts.
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