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This book starts with an intriguing premise, but the execution is a disaster.

Right at the beginning, we witness James introducing his wife to his mistress and new daughter. The way it's done is ridiculous, and the characters' reactions are laughable. This whole scene is more parody than realistic fiction, but I persevered, hoping it would all make sense as the story goes on. It doesn't.

James, Trish, and Laurel all have narrating parts, and all three characters are wholly unlikable. This in itself isn't the problem. Bad guys/girls and sociopaths can make for interesting narrators. But all three of these characters consistently grated on my nerves. They're shallow, one-dimensional, overly dramatic, and their behavior is absurd. In fact, even the minor characters, such as Trish's father, Laurel's parents, and the private investigator are completely unlikable. I couldn't find one redeemable or even interesting trait in any of these characters. They're a dysfunctional mess who seemed to deserve one another.

Dialogue is stilted and unrealistic. People don't speak to each other the way these characters do. I just kept shaking my head at the odd conversations.

The details are in desperate need of fact-checking, particularly in regards to the hospital scenes. Patient privacy evidently doesn't exist here, and assumptions abound with the nursing staff. Yet Laurel, the patient who'd just given birth, makes no objections to her personal information being tossed about freely.

As the story progresses, the plot becomes more and more ludicrous. I wanted someone to step up and be an adult. I wanted someone, somewhere to behave reasonably. Honestly, I wanted all the adults to die and the baby to be adopted by a loving, normal family.

I managed to read about half, at which point I decided the clenching of my jaw was a good indicator of the kind intense irritation I'd have during a root canal, and I gave up.


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I Will Never Leave You edition by S M Thayer Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Truly a dysfunctional cast of characters to put it mildly. Trish wants nothing more than to have a baby with her husband James. But even her wealth and privilege can't get her pregnant. James meanwhile has been naughty and got his mistress, Laurel, knocked up. When he tells Trish she should divorce him so he can be with Laurel and his newborn daughter, that doesn't go over well. Trish becomes obsessed with the baby and thinks her dream of having a family with her husband has finally come true.

I'll admit this book pretty much grabbed me right from the start. I was highly entertained at this messy love triangle. However, by the second half of the book the story line just becomes over the top and ridiculous. What had been a fun read just became frustrating and too much. I do appreciate though how this book was different and pretty unique in the fact that all of the characters minus the baby are really messed up individuals and you don't want to root for anyone other than the poor child.

Basically avoid this book if you can't handle a story with unlikable characters. If you don't mind that and are in the mood for a crazy but different plot, than maybe give this book a shot.

This was my free selection as part of the First Reads program.
I chose this book as my First Read selection and I can’t say I was impressed by it but it was the best of the bunch available for me. I read the sample first and I think it gives you a very good idea what to expect from this novel. The novel begins with Trish, the wealthy woman who has everything but the baby she longs for, being confronted with her husband’s newborn baby by his lover. As the premise of the book makes clear the other main characters are her husband James and his mistress Laurel. The POV will shift between them which is probably a detrimental choice. The book is at its best in the set up in the first half with Trish coming to terms with what James has done. Her character is hardly stable or all that sympathetic but it works until she starts going off the rails.

James is pretty much what you expect the philandering husband to be. He has no secret depths of charm so his narration does nothing for the story and could have been left out altogether. The author tries in vain to make the reader care for him or his motivations.

With Laurel the author’s attempt to make a believable character fall apart. She is supposed to come from a very rough background yet pulled herself up and racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt obtaining a liberal arts degree. Most people from her background that had managed to make such a profound change would then continue working hard, but Laurel is a waitress with no prospects. She also says things like “I’m no dum dum.” Yep, she’s a college educated woman that talks like she’s illiterate. There’s a similar issue with another secondary character who is supposed to come from wealth and privilege that makes similar unbelievable statements while doing things that are very hard to believe.

I hate this trend of the unlikeable narrator. It’s very hard to invest yourself in a book where the characters are so unappealing. For all that’s going on in this book nothing much happens. These three characters want what they think is best for them and are willing to stoop very low to get it. For that reason this book is going to a dark place. It certainly won’t have a happy ending but considering their actions it’s hard to imagine this book having one. This is a quick read that’s perfectly adequate for a free book if you are considering it as a First Read. If any of the other books look more interesting than skip this book because you won’t be missing anything. It’s also not worth reading if you will have to spend money on it since you could do a lot better than this.
I got this book free and at that it was overpriced. It's not just that all the characters were despicable sociopaths - a good author can make a great story with sociopathic characters - it's that the dialogue was bizarrely stilted, full of cliches and using vocabulary that no actual person would use in normal speech; that the plot was completely absurd; that everybody was hysterical all the time; that the plot "twists" were ridiculous; and that at the end you just didn't care and hoped they'd all murder each other. Don't waste your free offer on this one.
This book starts with an intriguing premise, but the execution is a disaster.

Right at the beginning, we witness James introducing his wife to his mistress and new daughter. The way it's done is ridiculous, and the characters' reactions are laughable. This whole scene is more parody than realistic fiction, but I persevered, hoping it would all make sense as the story goes on. It doesn't.

James, Trish, and Laurel all have narrating parts, and all three characters are wholly unlikable. This in itself isn't the problem. Bad guys/girls and sociopaths can make for interesting narrators. But all three of these characters consistently grated on my nerves. They're shallow, one-dimensional, overly dramatic, and their behavior is absurd. In fact, even the minor characters, such as Trish's father, Laurel's parents, and the private investigator are completely unlikable. I couldn't find one redeemable or even interesting trait in any of these characters. They're a dysfunctional mess who seemed to deserve one another.

Dialogue is stilted and unrealistic. People don't speak to each other the way these characters do. I just kept shaking my head at the odd conversations.

The details are in desperate need of fact-checking, particularly in regards to the hospital scenes. Patient privacy evidently doesn't exist here, and assumptions abound with the nursing staff. Yet Laurel, the patient who'd just given birth, makes no objections to her personal information being tossed about freely.

As the story progresses, the plot becomes more and more ludicrous. I wanted someone to step up and be an adult. I wanted someone, somewhere to behave reasonably. Honestly, I wanted all the adults to die and the baby to be adopted by a loving, normal family.

I managed to read about half, at which point I decided the clenching of my jaw was a good indicator of the kind intense irritation I'd have during a root canal, and I gave up.