Dust Jacket:
Finley isn’t exactly sure when her life began to feel unfamiliar. She suspects the transformation started long before she caught her husband and fellow garden club member doing the white-trash-two-step on her new Bernhardt sofa. Now free from the shackles of a loveless marriage, and with her children off to college, she’s finally able to go searching for the missing pieces of her heart.
Finley’s best friend, Cathyanne, is already working hard to ensure that Finley finds true love this time around. But when Finley is unwittingly tossed into the arms of two men—their sexy trainer and her neighbor, a popular country star—Cathyanne fears finding the right guy will be more complicated than she ever could have imagined.
For Finley, building a new life feels as impossible as flying a paper airplane to the moon. But maybe, just maybe, with the right help, she will find her whole heart—even if it’s in the very last place she thinks to look.
My Review: 2 Stars
I love books by Julie N. Ford, so I was really excited to dive into this one. This book is full of her fun style and I found it even wittier than her other books. Ford did a great job developing the main character. She is very real and relatable as her world is turned upside down by her divorce and kids moving out, and she is forced to evaluate and change what she has always been willing to live with.
The two stars come from me because the book really wasn't my style. I took a few good bites of it (22%) before I decided to put it down. The themes just weren't for me. The feeling was, as Finley would say, "trashy" without being graphic. Between the caddy 40 year old back biting, to the gossiping, to the bar hopping, to the sleeping around and leering at men, to the swearing, it just wasn't for me. I do look forward to checking out future works by Julie N. Ford!
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