Coming off of The Time Traveler's Wife, I needed something easy and fluffy. This was both. Upon the recommendation of a friend of a friend, I started reading Whitney Gaskell's books several summers ago (this recommender is friends with the author). While never thought provoking or deep, her bo...
I loved the book at the beginning. The storyline was new and fresh and the pace was quick and attention-grabbing. But the story grew more and more predictable after a while, until the book culminated with the classic girl ends up with the guy who was not the better catch but - surprise - has a ...
Young professionals India and Jeremy are struggling with infertility. After several IVF and other infertility treatments, they have finally given up their hopes of having their own natural-born child. They begin to consider adoption as a viable alternative.Enter Lainey, a shallow, selfish, and da...
The Cassel sisters have little in common besides a pair of wacky parents and a maddening knack for eluding happily-ever-after endings. But when their lives require damage control, only a dose of sisterhood will do.Paige, the oldest, is a go-getter divorce attorney who’s reeling from her own disas...
Praised for her “smart, funny, sexy, and refreshingly real” novels, author Whitney Gaskell delivers a warm, witty, and wise new story of four women coping with the challenges of motherhood, men, and each other. For Anna, Grace, Juliet, and Chloe, the idyllic town of Orange Cove, Florida, is home...
The basic message here is you shouldn't be afraid to follow your dreams and your heart, to admit when you're on the wrong path and have the courage to change. Only really it's encouraging our adrenaline-powered generation to drop what has lost the power to excite and move onto something else. Wha...
Iris had screamed on the day after the dinner party, when Fran informed her that she’d have to return the four-hundred-dollar sunglasses.“That sort of language is unacceptable, young lady,” Fran had said.But Iris had simply turned and run upstairs to her room, slamming her door.Will turned to Fra...
A nurse took the baby away to be washed and evaluated in the nursery. India and Jeremy followed the baby out, barely looking back at Lainey as they departed. The nurses buzzed around for a bit, and Dr. Jones checked to make sure that the placenta was all out and that there wasn’t any tearing that...