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Lessons In Laughing Out Loud (2011)

by Rowan Coleman(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0099551268 (ISBN13: 9780099551263)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Arrow

review 1: Seriously sad. And self-indulgent. I get that sexual abuse affects the victims for the rest of their lives. I don't get that this woman is choosing to let it rule her life & her choices. Which are crappy, FYI--IMO. The first 3/4 of the book are about how Willow tells her husband that she was sexually abused as a child, and he can't handle it so she hops into bed with her best friend & her husband catches them & they get divorced. So then she has no further contact with her ex or his impressionable young daughter until said daughter turns up on Willow's doorstep--pregnant. The rest of the book is Willow helping her stepdaughter learn to cope with her pregnancy & the fallout from it, making her Mother come to grips with the fact that her husband sexually molested her child, ... moreand developing a healthy new relationship. It does have a good resolution--which works for me.
review 2: This one really surprised me. It started with that not always likable, self loathing Willow coming across some magic shoes (always a good start) and kept sort of stumbling through rom com territory. It wasn't until it was nearly two thirds of the way done that it took an incredibly serious twist. It will keep you guessing, and give Willow some time. She'll grow on you and some of her irritating behaviors will make sense. The end is great! One warning, the language is pretty coarse at times and in my opinion unnecessary to the development of the story. less

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