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Loading... Last Couple Standingby Matthew Norman
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  m.belljackson | Jul 25, 2023 |    ) zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 | I'm a proponent of the importance this book placed communication. Though unconventional, Norma examined marriage, what it really takes to make one successful, and what successful even means in a deft and thoughtful fashion, though the book was still lots of fun and lighthearted all the way through. And ET!!! ET was such a delightful recurring theme. (  ) whakaora | Mar 5, 2023 | I enjoyed the pace and style of the book. The story is written in the third person and shows the perspectives of a few different characters. I liked most of the characters and thought they were well-developed. All the primary couples in the story were in heterosexual relationships, which is fine, but it didn't resonate as much with me as a lesbian reader, especially the segments told from the male characters' point of view. Since much of the plot is centered around those relationships, I wanted to see what happened but didn't care much about the outcome. Interesting premise. Quick, enjoyable read aside from a sentence or two that I found off-putting. ( ) jenwelsh | Nov 18, 2022 | ) sunshine608 | Feb 2, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
"The Core Four have been friends since college: four men, four women, four couples. They got married around the same time, had kids around the same time, and now, fifteen years later, they've started getting divorced around the same time, too. With three of the Core Four unions crumbling to dust around them, Jessica and Mitch Butler take a long, hard look at their own marriage. Can it be saved? Or is divorce, like some fortysomething zombie virus, simply inescapable? To maximize their chance at immunity, Jessica and Mitch try something radical. Their friends' divorces mostly had to do with sex--having it, not having it, wanting to have it with other people--so they decide to relax a few things. Terms are discussed, conditions are made, and together the Butlers embark on the great experiment of taking their otherwise happy, functional marriage and breaking some very serious rules. Jessica and Mitch are convinced they've hit upon the next evolution of marriage. But as lines are crossed and hot bartenders pursued, they each start to wonder if they've made a huge mistake. What follows is sexy, fun, painful, messy, and completely surprising to them both. Because sometimes doing something bad is the only way to get to the heart of what's really good"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Matthew Norman.
Instead, even up to the end of the final pages, not even one smile.
And, I hate Jessica, both for the stupid rings and for saying to her clearly sad and depressed husband:
"It felt like being alive again."
Mitch should have divorced her at that moment.
Lame plot and few characters to admire, except the kids. (