iaproton's reviews
336 reviews

Interesting. The audiobook contains music. 

There is some moderate angst when she's pushed out of her comfort zone. There are some tense and sad moments

a sick chicken, the risk of getting evicted as the land has been bought for a train line

There is a lot of sulking and rudeness from the son throughout and more drama half way through. I can't believe she slept with the boy's father when she's supposed to stay impartial and have the boy's best interests at heart, not to mention that he already has a girlfriend. Shelby is really selfish leaving his son behind during a difficult time which they fight about . I don't know why he has his son go to therapy but he won't go himself because his wife died. There is so much insomnia with the main character. There isn't any gradual character development, most of her courage comes from alcohol. The first third of the story was relaxing, the rest had too much drama. The title is misleading.

Darker than the other books in the series unfortunately, with a manipulative coercive controller narcissistic husband, isolating his wives, locking them up and being verbally abusive. 
There is no prologue and the ending is unsatisfying. Its definitely not cozy enough to be worth a second read.

 The gossiping about a woman being cheated on refusing to get divorced was annoying taking away from the story of the animal rescue,have seen others refer to it as a drama with gaslighting ,so stopped listening since those don’t make for an easy relaxing listen. This book seems to have a lot of characters. 

A slow depressing start.
The unfairness of him getting arrested for supposedly stealing a car he had never seen made me angry.
 The bulldozer doesn't appear until about chapter 3. Boring at times, there are quite a few characters, and with them, dialogue.I really didn't care for the infidelity and the ex barging into his life again when they've broken up. The romance part was unsatisfying. The shenanigans with the bulldozer were very few. I wasn't expecting the last chapters to be about one son born from a rape "in sin" and how this affected his sense of self and family.

The first 4 chpts are boring and depressing with too much detail.She doesn't make it to the house until chapter 8,there's a lot of jumping back and forth in time.