The Kari AnnAlysis

Through a small gift (small in size, not in importance), four women, with completely different lives will come together in the life-weaving story Then Came You.

Jules is a Princeton student, by scholarship, not a silver spoon, is offered a deal she can’t refuse. It comes in the form of a hefty check for her “eggs”. It’s her one chance to give her father what he needs, rehab.

Annie  is a mother of two boys. She married her high school sweetheart, but wants more. Not necessarily from her husband, but life itself. It may be a long nine months, but she decides for the money, she can’t turn down carrying a baby for someone else, even if it puts her marriage on the line.

India  isn’t even her real name, but her wealthy husband doesn’t know that and hopefully he never will. But she got him to marry her and now to seal the deal and bring in as much money as possible, all she needs to do is get pregnant. She can’t do it herself, but thanks to Jules and Annie, she may just get everything she’s ever wanted.

Bettina hates her new step-mother India. She knows there is something off about her and is bound and determined to let her father in on all the secrets. But a sudden shocker changes her life in an instant and may prove to everyone, except her father, who “India” really is.

This is my first Jennifer Weiner book but it definitely won’t be my last. I love fiction, but I love fiction most when it could really happen. I also love fiction when the author can weave the lives of it’s characters together to make such a well-rounded complete story. I am always afraid, when even thinking about writing a story like this, that I would forget to add in the important parts that would mold the story as one.

Right now, I am doing a little genre-jumping, if I can call it that. Normally I get into grooves and read a dozen or so YA books with a mystery thrown in the mix, or something along those lines, but switching the genres around, but now I’m on a genre hop and glad I hopped into this book.

There have been many books throughout my blogging life that I’ve tried to love but haven’t because of the grown characters. I think it’s a way for me to try to hold onto my youth and pretend I’m not getting older. I’ll just read YA forever, but even that is changing. I realize my taste in books are changing too. Not that the women in Then Came You are old and decrepit, but a couple of them are farther ahead in their life than me. I normally just get frustrated with books like this because I can’t relate. That didn’t happen this time and I loved it. Maybe it’s because I know I can’t hold on to my teen years forever, or maybe it’s just because Weiner has written an awesome book. I’ll let you choose that one

Anyhow, there are women in this book that you’ll love because they are selfless and want to help others, there are women you’ll hate because there is not a selfless bone in their body and there’s women you’ll want to love because their world has turned upside down and while they want to help, they also want to be a young twenty-something. They’ll all make you think about the person you are, want to be and definitely don’t want to be.

I give Then Came You 5 bookmarks.

ISBN: 978-1451617726
Release: July 12, 2011
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Kari got this book from Simon and Schuster Galley Grab

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