Sandra C. (sandybees) reviewed on 12/20/2010 + 109 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I love Rachel Gibson and this book is another good one. It centers around Daisy Lee Monroe, a thirty something who returns to her home town with a confession. Daisy Lee has to tell her former high school sweetheart that he's the father of her fifteen year old son. Although I love Rachel Gibson, who's a fantastic writer, I thought the character of Daisy Lee was selfish to the bone. I really don't enjoy the stories about a woman telling a man decades later that he's a father. I don't think there are many writers who can justify such a choice. In this story Daisy's ex Jack seems like a nice guy (albeit with a few faults) so it seems incomprehensible that Daisy would lie to Jack for fifteen years about giving birth to his child. There is another facet to Daisy's deception that is just so low that I couldn't stomach it as a reader. I don't want to give away the whole plot but she betrays him so viciously that it would actually bring a person to their knees. At one point in the book Jack says to Daisy, "If that's what you do to people you love, I can't imagine what you have in store for people you hate." In short, this sums up the heroine. I liked the premise of the book but I hated the main character Daisy's selfishness. It made me dislike her as the main character of the book.

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