Reading this book was a very interesting experience for me. Being a make, a good portion of the book kept feeling quite trite & girlish. But beneath it all was the constant feeling that I could relate to every character's thoughts and experience (which at times made me blush as a dude)Janie, Marley, Abby & Caroline are the four Linda's. Together since first grade, they grew up & went their separate ways. Now many years later, they meet at their school's reunion & get reacquainted w/ each other again.What follows is a story of life's little & not so little intricacies as these middle-aged ladies,learn more about each other and themselves. Will tough attorney Janie soften up? Will Abby beat her depression & fear of her husband's infidelity? Will Marley finally find her footing? & will Caroline finally know what to do w/ herself as well as her mom, suffering from Alzheimer's? Read on to find out.If you love stories that get you to reflect on life & it's envy day bumps and all, & / or if you love a gushingly good story about good friends reconnecting & finding love & friendship a new, this is one good book for you This was an OK book about middle-aged women reconnecting. I generally enjoy a good friendship novel, but this was just blah. It seems like the author tried almost too hard to have these four friends have a variety of issues in their lives: cancer, hoarding, long-term marriage now on the rocks, drug addiction, abortion, abuse, homosexuality, etc. - they come off as writing ploys rather than real people. The story was OK, but very slow moving, and frankly I didn't really care what happened to the characters. I know this is characterized as Christian fiction, but there wasn't really a faith element present (other than talking about how someone used to go to church, or a comment like, "God has a purpose for all this.")The entire novel felt more like a set-up for the remaining books in the series, explaining how the women all ended up back in their hometowns after so long. But frankly I think a chapter on each woman would have been more than sufficient, and then they could have actually got onto DOING something together. Perhaps the next in the series will be better, but honestly I have zero interest in joining these ladies again to find out...
Do You like book As Young As We Feel (2010)?
A bit of a yawn. I am in the same stage of life as these women which made it easy to relate to them.
—FEDEX
This was a cute little story about friendship. I am on to the 2nd book.
—kady98
