God help me, if i was granted 1 trivial thing that i can do, im going to ask god to stop the past me from reading this book. it stll haunted me in a bitter taste kind of feeling. One of the worse cheating plot ever. ofc this book wasnt all about cheating as the main plot. there are other problem from the wife's background who then lead to her refused-to sex behaviour to his husband which then lead this one of the jerk husband on earth to cheat on her w/his wife's bestfriend for a reason to keep his and her marriage life still going on and not make the husband strayed and fall in love to other women. what a great idiot excused to hv an affair.and mind me, not that im not adult enough for not opening my eyes that there are other worse habit of infidelity from a husband to his wife and family. and i hv read many book that contain cheating/infidelity as the main plot, but never i had the bitter raging feeling as much as i have for this book. simply said, i wish to god, i never ever have the opportunities to set my eyes on this book. but it's done. and i regret it. so very much.where can i start? the over all main plot is interesting, it draws your full attention and hooked you up for keep reading it until it was done. the part that i dont like, the cheating behaviour. which leads me to a very confused view of the husband cheating habit to his wife's BF. i cant differentiate what's make the affair and the love making (or the sex, that's what the husband said to his wife)from his affair is less "special" to his love making to his wife, as he claimed couple of time in this book. joshua (the husband) said in his thought that his sex-affair life is nothing come closed to what he and his wife used to have. and never will. but the habits and the frequensies of his affair and love making is soo intense and soo passionate and he made this as in "i cant even have the power to refused her whenever she was naked in front of me, even though i had the thought to end this affair for my wife's sake coz i still love her"-thing. spare your reader some brain please. this is bullshit! other cheater know that they cheat on his wife bcoz the "feel" is gone or lessen, or the husband doesnt feel the same thing to his wife and attracted or being infatuated w/the other women. that at least as much as clear. but this book is brought the affair into a new level of Bullshit. he love his wife, soo much. but he cant live without sex, bcoz his wife refused him for some psychological reason related to her long lost father. so he accepted the wife's BF' offer to slept w/her and they both only play sex and can ended it anytime he felt like he wants to. but what do we got here? not only the affair going on for almost more than 5-6 months bfore the wife know about it, but also the affair still going on AFTER the wife knws about it and the husband regret his choice. but what did he do? did he stop it? NO! he kept thinking of having the sex w/his wife;s friend, kept thinking about how can he make an opportunity for him to have sex again w/her, all the while he kept on phoning his wife and said, i love you soo much i can marry you again this right time. and the next thing we knw, he kept saying he had hard time to broke of the sex w/his wife's friend. good god! thank god his wife can taste a lil bit taste of this young sexy italian. but not enough for me. her husband did the affair for many months, leaving his wife and his children when he's on family vacation to go to other city and flyed his wife's friend over to him so they can have endless sex. he evn too her to a week vacation in paris and other city for this o called passionate sex. i loose my interest here. what's once said that the husband used this sex as a "stress relieved" and his "need" has turn into his obsession toward his wife's friend. he said that this is an "not feeling related"-sex and it's only sex. but he did all the "private" thing of what he did to his wife to his wife's friend. he kiised her passionately, he shared his story, he made her laugh, he took her to vacation, and many other thing that speak more than an "affair". but the author keep insist that his feeling to his wife's friend is just pure sex and he had hard time to ended it bcoz he still wants to slept w/her and it aroused him whenever he thought of her, all while he still said there's no way in this world that can make him leaving his wife and his children for this women. ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING MEEEEE....?????? actually, what his wife's friend said about their affair is more make sense to me, even if the author wants to make her as a delusional one in this affair of their relationship. the author makes her personality as a delusional girl who misunderstanding this affair while joshua already said from the beginning that this affair is just temporary and never be brought into a different level and he will not leaving his wife. but it's contradicted to what's they had and share and also of what the author try to show us of how this affair work. shot me in the brain please, after many sexual intercourse and many private intimate moment that's more than a sex, can the reader believed that joshua indeed love his wife? and only hv "technical" sex to his wife's friend? NO! coz the author NEVER make us or show us of how strong joshua's feeling to his own wife. the wife that he was cheating on for months! psychologically and psychaly and how regretful his action was for he still slept w/his wife's friend after his wife knw the affair. spare me some brain for the reason of "it's hard for joshua to stop the affair coz he himself doesnt even understand why it is soo hard, for he not love his wife's friend". if one of this book's purposes was to show us reader about the reconsiliation of a husband and wife. it can kiss my ass. for it not even show the strong feeling of love between from the husband. it FAILED!. and never put Cheating and infidelity in the same lines as "devoted" husband and "i still love my wife so very much" it's an insult to women on earth! scum like this deserved to be cut on his balls!there i said it!
I didn't enjoy this at all but gave it two stars because I did want to find out the mysterious secret. Needless to say it was a disappointment. Books about paternity are irrelevant once genetic testing came in. The sex scenes were toe curlingly bad. The main characters were selfish and both had supposedly excusable affairs - the man with the old chestnut of 'I have needs'. I didn't care about any of the people involved and the characterisation of a teenage girl in 2005 was close but did not quite hit the mark especially when mobile phones were so crucial even then. I have read and enjoyed other books by this author but I am afraid not this one.
What do You think about The Mill House (2006)?
Ms. SUSAN LEWIS portrayed herself as a mother, father, daughter, son, and a friend in a heartwarming and mind blowing novel!!! Julia Cowan Thayne is a valued, strong, and loving wife, a caring mother to her kids, and a beautiful woman. She is living happily with her kids and her successful, loving husband, Joshua 'Josh' Thayne. Julia is constantly happy in her life but the past keeps haunting her and because of that, she had hard time pulling herself together. The ghost of Julia's past moved into their marriage and they find themselves losing the struggle to keep their relationship stronger. She wants to know the real reason behind her father's (Douglas 'Dougie' Cowan) abandonment. --- THEN TWO PHONE CALLS CHANGED EVERYTHING. As for a fourteen-year-old, this'll be a giant ball of boredom haha but I totally enjoyed reading the book. Strong emotions are poured out on each pages and everything's well-written... The book is truly astounding, surprising, and mystifying! The so-called 'twists' and 'revelations' are perfectly unpredictable and uplifting. I can't say that it's a book for all ages, but if you're matured enough... Hahaha. The story is nearly close to reality, (well, I think this has happened in real life haha.) I think Miss Susan Lewis is now one of my favorite authors... :-)
—Cheska Ibasan
