Getting Colder

Everyone is a caricature - personality traits taken to the extreme and they are just stand-ins for a type. Also the jacket copy says the abandoned children will learn about their mother after her death - well not so much. I don't know Sara/Sally any more at the end of the book than I did at the start. And just how anyone could be attracted to Patrick is beyond me. He's repulsive in every way imaginable. Sexist. Loud. Opinionated. Entitled. Arrogant. Suffering from delusions of grandeur. Ick.

Nigel and Louise are all grown up but have never forgotten their mother, who abandoned them for another man when they were just children. Her defection from their family created Louise’s lifelong insecurities and Nigel’s aloofness, leading to a rift in their relationship. Having grown apart through the years, they are thrown together when their mother suddenly dies and they are called to the home she shared with her new husband Patrick.

Read the rest of the review on my blog: https://shouldireaditornot.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/the-love-she-left-behind-ama...