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Margaret From Maine Margaret From Maine: A Novel A Novel (2012)

by Joseph Monninger(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1470838486 (ISBN13: 9781470838485)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Blackstone Audiobooks

review 1: The opening of Joseph Monninger’s Margaret from Maine had me in tears as I prepared myself for an emotional and heart-wrenching novel. However, I became increasingly disappointed as the story went downhill very quickly after that. I expected to see the struggles of a wife who develops feelings for another man while her husband lies in a coma, but in the end, she would win out and remain faithful to her vows. Instead, I discovered the book was all about her affair with Charlie King.If that weren’t disappointing enough in and of itself, the author attempted to pass lust for love. Charlie and Margaret meet on Friday morning, but that night they are already in bed together. By Saturday, they are talking about not wanting to be separated and on Sunday, she cancels her fligh... moret home to her six year-old son to run off with Charlie for a few days. I can’t call that romance.It’s not until Charlie enters her life that Margaret starts thinking of her husband as “dead.” This switch didn’t feel genuine but merely an attempt to ease her guilt over the affair. Everything about the story happened too fast to feel believable. Charlie and Margaret’s relationship was sorely underdeveloped because it was crammed into a weekend and they barely knew one another.To avoid spoilers, I won’t say much about the ending, but it felt like a tacky attempt at justifying Margaret’s choices. Margaret from Maine is one book I cannot recommend.Review copy received from publisher via NetGalley. Thanks!
review 2: Margaret is widowed in every sense of the word because her husband is in a vegetative state after having been injured in Afghanistan. She, however, is very loyal and feels responsible for him and to him. In the meanwhile, she falls in love with another man but does not permit herself to pursue this relationship because her husband is still technically "alive". The story highlights the grief that many military families experience--grief in all forms and not just reserved for "death". less

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