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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great second chance at love and life story, May 16, 2006
When Kennedy's husband of nearly a decade decides to leave her for his former lover, a surfer named Sunny no less, Kennedy is forced to move on and raise their children as a single mom.
Her surly teenager Maya is in desperate need of several bars of soap for her smart mouth and wants to meet her birth father; her youngest just wants everything back to normal; and her five-times married mother wants her to get her groove on and find a new man. Ex-husband Frank announces that he is going to quit his lucrative law practice to become a yoga instructor, and Kennedy is faced with having to move to a smaller place. A fixer upper has her salivating and her family and friends ready to run for the hills.
When she goes back to the Greenwich Village tavern she worked at prior to getting married, she hooks up with the lust of her life, bartender/owner Declan McGlynn. As they share yet another one night stand, both are feeling a bit more for each other, though neither is willing to admit it, but tentatively start a relationship. When Declan admits that there is someone else in his life, Kennedy gives him an ultimatum, and doesn't like his choice. When she is given a chance for reconciliation with Frank, will she take it?
Satran's debut is a slick and sexy novel about a women's journey to right the wrongs of her life in a path of self-discovery. She has peppered it with a flawed heroine, great secondary characters, and conversational dialogue that never seems forced.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Fun, Fast Delightful Read!, August 13, 2003
This review is from: The Man I Should Have Married (Paperback)
Thank you Amazon.com! This book was recommended to me when I logged on to buy something else and boy, am I glad. I probably wouldn't have given it more than a passing glance in the bookstore, but I read the other reviews here on Amazon and was impressed. I finished this book wanting more. I was drawn into the lives of Kennedy and Declan and have been wondering since finishing the book just last night: What would have happened between this couple if the book was just a bit longer? Don't get me wrong, the ending was quite satisfying as was the whole reading experience, but I for one wasn't ready to let the story end. Kennedy Burns very quickly finds herself as a single mother when her husband Frank leaves her as well as his job at a lucrative law firm to become of all things, a yoga instructor!! Kennedy also happens to be dealing with a very difficult teenage daughter who wants to find her real father. This premise has been dealt with in lots of women's fiction before this, but I really felt that this book dealt all these things in a fresh, new way. At first, I really couldn't relate to Kennedy. I thought her character was flat and there didn't seem to be a connection between her and her daughters or for that matter, what was happening in her life. I felt that the author was just simply telling a story and as the reader, I was just reading the words printed on the page, I wasn't becoming involved. But that is the beauty of this novel. I continued to change my opinion as Kennedy changed, matured and grew into her new life. A nice thing to see was that Kennedy, who was once very dependent transformed into someone very self-reliant. Because of the cover art and the title one might think that this is just another run of the mill chick-lit book. Really, there is something deeper and more satisfying at work here. You will be sad when this one ends!!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Long title . . . Fabulous novel., October 5, 2003
This review is from: The Man I Should Have Married (Paperback)
The Man I Should Have Married could use an edit to the super-long title, but the novel is practically perfect. It follows the story of Kennedy Burns, who takes her life into her own hands after her husband, Frank, leaves her for another woman. Kennedy is faced with raising two daughters, renovating a dilapidated house, and reconnecting with two men from her past. The novel goes by quickly, too quickly. I could not put it down! It's a romantic fantasy and would make a wonderful film!
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