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Una Sorpresa Sulla Fifth Avenue (2012)

by Allison Winn Scotch(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8820052725 (ISBN13: 9788820052720)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Sperling & Kupfer

review 1: When I started this, I had a feeling of deja vu. I had seen this exact story in a movie with Nicholas Cage. The only difference was the protagonist here is a woman who is disgruntled with her life as a stay at home mom and wife. When she finds out her ex is getting married, she falls apart. During a massage, she travels back seven years to life with the ex. And it goes from there.This was an okay novel. The writing was good, but not sophisticated or even mature. It made for a good read, but was nothing I will remember a month from now.
review 2: I wanted to like this book more than I did. I found this in the dollar bin at Goodwill and thought, "Steal!" I started reading it with an open mind, not really knowing what I was getting into until I got onto my ... moreGoodreads app on my phone to add this to my 'currently reading'. All of the low stars had me nervous -- so nervous I started reading the reviews to see what was wrong.. I kicked myself for thinking I knew what was going to happen in the end and thankfully I must have been reading wrong because I thought it would end a different way from what I was reading.Anyways, I had a like-hate relationship with this book. I found the concept intriguing and the story itself really mesmerizing, but I absolutely hated the main character. So, so, sooo much. She was selfish, vain, whiney, annoying. Supposedly she 'changed' in the ending of the book, but like others have said, I saw no change. In fact, her 'changes' were blaming others for her own issues. She blamed her mom for her own selfish actions, saying that if her mom hadn't left her, she wouldn't have wanted to leave her own husband and daughter. She blamed her husband along with herself for her marriage going dull, when clearly he just gave up on her whining and moaning about how she had to take responsibility being a mother. There were times I caught myself shaking my head to put the book down for a break, or rolling my eyes in response to picking it up.. But all the time, once I started the first sentence in each chapter, I would catch myself smiling to read the rest. It kept me wanting more.I know that everyone has those 'what-if' thoughts. What would have happened if I chose differently. I have those occasionally and I'm sure everyone else in the world does, too. I don't fault the main character for wondering those thoughts. Acting on those 'what-ifs' is what I fault her on. There is no decent woman in the world that would give up her daughter, allow her not to exist anymore, just because of a yearning for an ex-boyfriend. It was so painful to see this woman so easily push the thoughts and memories of her daughter out of her head because she wanted a man from the past so bad. It downright pissed me off. It also pissed me off that she kept thinking "Katie! My Katie!" allllll the time, but in the next sentence she'd say "I remember now why I loved Jackson so much. I have to do this for myself, to see what would happen if I had stayed with him". Another thing that irked me (and SPOILER here) was that what makes her think Katie is the same Katie she knew and loved? She changed her life around, made small differences no matter what, so I'm sure the whole butterfly effect should come into play and I'm pretty certain it's downright impossible to conceive the same day, same time, and have the same sperm wriggle into the same egg in this new future she magically created. She was so fucking selfish and I really expected her to find a picture of a daughter that looked different or had a different personality. It also bothered me that she not only didn't change her selfishness but she got the life she wanted in the end anyways. She became a co-owner of a company and her friend still lived and had her baby, and Katie is surprisingly still alive. (Oh, and the bonus: her mom is now in her life and babysits Katie). That part just bothered me, that she wasn't punished for trying to change her actions in the first place. Okay, now for the good part. I really liked this book because it made me realize how great I have it. I have an 18 month old too (this is for sure why I had issues of her abandoning her daughter) and I've been with my significant other for almost 8 years. I have similarities to the main character, but I hope it ends there. And thanks to this book, it can. No longer do I care or wonder what would have happened if I stayed in a past relationship. Reading this helped me see how grateful I need to be and how thankful I am that I have my new little family. I gave this four stars because I did enjoy this book. It kept me at the edge of my seat and wanting more. I did four stars because I figured had I not been a mother, I probably would have given it 5 stars. Knowing how much love a mother can have for her daughter made me wan't to give it three stars. I did the happy medium and I have no regrets with the rating. :)Fun drinking game tip: Take a shot every time the author writes the words 'veneer' or 'literal'. Seriously, these words were sooo overused. less

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