I’d read another book by Jane Green and enjoyed it – it was light and fun so I was expecting the same this time. “The Other Woman” starts off that way but gets very serious.

Moms with babies will probably enjoy this book because it gets deep into the relationships that Ellie has with her son and her friends with babies.

i am officially sick of jane green. i can’t believe this is the same woman who wrote jemima j. since that book, her books have followed a familiar formula: girl gets boy, girl suffers devestation, girl finds happiness in the end. i can take a few beatings to get through a good story. but i’m sick to death of wanting to commit suicide in sympathy with the women in these books. enough with the devestation already. lighten up just a wee bit, can ya?

I am enjoying and hating this at the same time. Ellie is sympathetic, but her refusal to stand up to her monster-in-law AT ALL is driving me nuts. At the half-way point the wedding has happened and wrapped nicely, and I’m tempted to put the book down and pretend that’s how it ended. But I just can’t. Knowing JG, the book will see Ellie grow some kind of spine and I’m looking forward to it. But also knowing JG, some kind of horrific catastrphe is coming first, and I am so not looking forward to that.