Ah well!! There I go completing 2 years today!!
Thank you Victoria Joss and Publisher Aria for my spot in the Blog Tour.
I have to declare it right here, right now – Shari Low is bloody brilliant!! Her writing caused waves of emotion to course through me, sometimes they were gentle, filled with love and warmth and the other, they were swirling and thrashing where I wanted nothing more than shake some sense into the characters.
Her portrayal of the characters in this book were so dynamic that the contrariness of each came into the forefront like a burst of radiance. She showed both ends of the spectrum in this story. Denise, a lousy mother who pandered to her husband Ray’s wishes even at the cost of her children’s well being and Claire who was the best mother but neglected her husband to the point they broke up. Denise and Claire were mother and daughter. Then Ray died and that unveiled the truth, it revealed his vileness. Ughhh… I hated that selfish boor of a man!!!
Emotions were a tempest, and I could do nothing but stand strong like the rocks with the waves beating on to me, making me feel love, anger, tears, sadness, frustration, and resignation. Whew!! Did I not tell you the author is bloody brilliant?!! And every stroke of her pen was dipped in the sheer mastery of her words. How I loved to be in the center of such raging emotions!! The last line of the book made me laugh manically and say – Here we go again.
Shari Lowe’s book taught me one important thing. Some people don’t change, and it is no use giving them second and third chances. That’s one chance too many. Read the book, if you will, for the beautiful emotions with friendship and love galore.
I received an ARC from NetGalley and publisher Aria, and this is my journey into its pages, straight from the heart!!
All my reviews can be read here
Shari Low is the No1 best-selling author of over 20 novels, including One Day In December, A Life Without You, The Story Of Our Life, With Or Without You and her latest release, Another Day In Winter. And because she likes to over-share toe-curling moments and hapless disasters, she is also the shameless mother behind a collection of parenthood memories called Because Mummy Said So. Once upon a time she met a guy, got engaged after a week, and twenty-something years later she lives near Glasgow with her husband, a labradoodle, and two teenagers who think she’s fairly embarrassing except when they need a lift.
Website: www.sharilow.com
Twitter: @ShariLow
Facebook: @sharilowbooks
This is… Denise.
Married to Ray, her first and only love, Denise has never for one moment regretted putting the husband she idolised on a pedestal above everyone and everything else. But, after forty years of marriage, he is gone, leaving Denise to discover that their perfect marriage was fatally flawed. Now she faces a future alone, but first she must face the betrayals of the past.
This is… Claire.
The estranged daughter of Denise, the woman who put her husband before her children, Claire took the opposite path and devoted her life to raising her family, sacrificing her marriage along the way. With her teenage sons about to flee the nest, she realises she may have left it too late to find her own happy ever after.
This is the story of two women, both alone, both cautionary tales of one of motherhood’s biggest decisions.
Who is more important, your partner or your children? And what happens if you make the wrong choice?
Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Aria
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66 Responses
Congrats!!
Thank you… It shocked me too. I had forgotten 🙈😂🤷♀️❤️
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Congratulations! 🎂
Thank you Susy ❤️
Congratulations on your 2-year anniversary!
Thank you Jonetta ❤️
Congratulations on your two years! Here’s to many more 😊
Aww thank you Cathy ❤️
It’s been just two years 😱 I felt like you are veteran in this. Whoa congrats! ✨🍻🎉🎉 xoxo!
Hahaha 😂 😂 thank you so much ❤️ 😘 😂😂 I was also shocked
congrats shalini
Thank you so much ❤️
Congratulations Shalini! Best work. Thank you for beeing here! 🙂 Michael
Thank you so much Michael for all your support and kind words ❤️
Always a great pleasure, Shalini! Thank you for all the very informative reviews. Have a nice evening! Michael
Lovely review and congratulations!
Thank you so much Nicki ❤️
Happy 2nd Birthday! You make it seem old hat!
Aww maybe I am just OLD!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
THANK YOU DJ 😘❤️
Congrats on your two-year blogging anniversary!!! You’re certainly a pro at this, and a great inspiration to blogger-wanna-be’s! I always know if I want to be entertained that all I have to do is visit Shalini’s blog. 🙂 And a great review, by the way. Glad the book kept you so engrossed. Happy Wednesday! 🙂 🙂
Happy Wednesday, my darling ♥. Thank you so much. Always happy and smiling when I have you in my comments
Congrats on two years, hun! You’ve done an amazing job with your reviews!♥♥
Aww you are a sweetheart to say so 😘❤️
Congrats
Thank you
Welcome dear
Happy 2nd Blog Birthday! Here’s to many more… 🙂
Thank you so much ❤️
Congratulations!!! You are an inspiration to me for sure, Shalini 💕 And this is such a beautifully written post and review!!! One of the things I love about you is the way you write ❤️
Omg omg thank you so much ❤️ 😘 I have never been inspiration. Thank you
You are mine!!!
Congratulations on two years! Here is to many more!
Thank you
I hope so ❤️😘
Happy second year!!🥳
Thank you Anjana ♥️
Fabulous review Shalini. This sounds so emotional, yet compelling. I am adding it right now, see, I added it. Congrats on your two years of blogging. Keep going for many more.
Thank you so much. Shari Low books are amazing!!
Thank you so much ❤️
Happy Blogiversary! And a 5 star read to celebrate! Love you ❤
Hahaha review was written a month back. Yesterday got the notification about 2 years😂😂
Maybe I should have found a 2 star book 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 a 2 star would have been funny, but positivity is good too 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂 Still a critical review would have been funnier
So true. 😂😂😂
Great review. Relationships = Choices + Complications 🤔
Relationship = complications… Just kept thinking in the past 4 days… All of mine have had some form of abuse… 🙈🙈
Ah well maybe one day
I love words, but “abuse” is one word I wish we could wipe out of our vocabulary because of lack of use.
I wish so too… But where there is good, there is evil too ❤️
That’s a great review! Congratulations 💕
Thank you so much ❤️ Priyasha
Such a pretty cover
Such an emotional story
Such a great review!
Loved your enthusiasm.
Two years… you’ve accomplished a lot with your blog in those two years. Congratulations 🎈🎉
Aww you are a cutie and I have friends like you.. Did not imagine ever that I would have friends who get me!! 😘❤️
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This book blogging world is the greatest… usually anyways. Lol
Hahaha… I don’t think so.. I made a comment on someone else’s comment and she blasted me… Because I found autocorrects by phone funny. I had to apologize 5 times… 🤦♀️
😳🙄 Really? Sigh. Maybe it was a bad day for her.
Her phone autocorrected shot to shit so I said it is the other way around… So she quickly said it was a typo and I should be sympathetic to her and I have hurt her by laughing 😂 emoji… 🤦♀️🙆🤷♀️
Well…. I can understand why you’d be amused. I think most ppl would be. No harm intended either way 😂🤷🏻♀️
😂😂 Don’t you get angry with my laughing emoji. I am actually very sad. One of my favorite author is no more. Emma Hannigan. I have read only one book by her as too expensive
Aww. Lol. That’s a shame. Naughty Nina! 😘
Congrats on your two years, Shalini!! ❤️ You and your blog sre are awesome! 😘😊
Hm, autocorrect did something funny here, but you get what I say
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Awww… Dora, thank you so much… You are a sweetheart ❤️
Congratulations Shalini! I don’t read the books you write about but enjoy reading your reviews very much.Sometimes I have trouble keeping up with you as you may have noticed!!!
Happy blogging!
Thank you so much ❤️ That’s okay Sheela. I am happy that I see you around. Enjoy your life that is more important. Blogging is secondary ❤️