**Haven't actually finished the book**Bride Stripped Bare is one of my all-time favourites. It is honest, believable and relateable.This book feels like a badly written version of it. The opening is terrible. I just wanted to smack the author, or the 'you' that she is referring to, and tell her to get over herself. Well done you for being slack with the housework, and for trying to be involved with the school committee but being intimidated by the women on it. How fantastic that you haven't slept with your husband in over two years. I get that these issues do arise with a lot of 'married with kids' women, but it felt too heavy handed and forced here.I'm up to the part where she is still infatuated with Tolly and wilfully overlooking things about him that she is uneasy with. I'll finish the book cos I can't leave things half-read (I swear that's why I read the first Twilight book!) but can't see this staying in my house. I think I liked this book best out of the series. She (nameless) is a wife and a mother of three, her identity doesn't extend beyond that. She is not herself anymore. She exists she does not live.The book starts with part of the ending. As readers, we are just not exactly aware of what it really is. This book is more about longing and finding or rediscovery. We are taken back to her first sexual experience, which is not good at all. Life goes on an she stumbles upon a bookish, slightly older man Tol. Against his willpower they embark upon a relationship that is supposed to be only about sexual discovery. Of course it turns into so much more. They have almost daily lessons both written and physical.One days he tells her he has done basically all he can and she should go out into the world and flourish. She is heart broken and then Tol disappears. She shuts off and moves on with her life.Present day she decides to take her boy and go home for the summer. Regularly she goes past Tol's until she finds it unlocked. It is clear he has long since moved on. The only stuff left behind are her gifts to him. One day Julian (Tol's best friend) appears and sets up a meet b/w the 2 but only after he explains Tol's disappearance. Tol doesn't show and She moves on again and rediscovers her perfect life. She decides to live and not exist anymore.
What do You think about With My Body (2012)?
Eh. It had its moments, but was mostly uninteresting and forced
—archedragon13
Like the first book, i found this very difficult to get into.
—donodew
Just couldn't get into it. Depressing book in my opinion.
—rissa1
Read it in 2 days. Couldn't put it down.
—Funnybunnie22
