Book Review 

Sharing You by Molly McAdams

 

Twenty-three year old, Kamryn Cunningham has left all she’s ever known and moved to a small town where no one knows her name, who her parents are, or her social status in the horseracing world. Months after opening her own bakery and evading attempts of being set up by her new best friend, she meets Brody. Kamryn fights the instant pull between them because there’s a detail she can’t dismiss. Brody’s married.

To say that twenty-six year old, Brody Saco has had a rough marriage would be an understatement. After marrying his pregnant girlfriend, he spends the next six years in a relationship filled with hatred, manipulation and guilt involving a tragedy that happened five years earlier. When he keeps running into his sister-in-law’s best friend, Kamryn, he can’t ignore that she makes him feel more with just one look than his wife ever has; and soon he can’t continue fight his feelings for her.

When staying apart proves to be too difficult, Brody and Kamryn enter a relationship full of stolen moments and nights that end too soon while they wait for Brody to file for divorce. But the guilt that comes with their relationship may prove to be too much for Kamryn, and Brody might not be strong enough to face the tragedy from his past in order to leave his conniving wife.

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Spoiler Warning:

I must say I was extremely disappointed reading this book. I loved Taking Chances and From Ashes and I liked both Forgiving Lies so I was really excited to read this one. In past posts I've talked about how much I hate cheating but I gave a pass for McAdams latest book, and I was extremely let down. I'm most disappointed about the relationship between Kamryn and Brody, they meet and it's insta-love. They meet and everything makes sense in their lives and yet Brody still waits months to leave his wife. At least in other books the characters develop a relationship and then the cheating occurs but not this time they just fall in love. I do believe in love at first sight but even then they start dating first they don't just jump in together. 

Also I feel like the characterization of the wife was a cop out. She was diabolical and nasty. And all Brody's struggles in his marriage were here fault, and she was doing it all on purpose. What I don't understand is why she stayed in the relationship if she wasn't happy. I mean she was dating other guys, Brody wasn't rich enough for her, she didn't want their baby, and she spent most of her time outside of their house. Why would she make Brody's life hell when they could have split right after Tate's death and be done with it? And I know Brody wants to get Olivia help because he did once care about her but once he found Kamryn and realized his feelings toward her he should have ended his marriage right away. 

I had really high hopes for this book and I was let down in a large way. Because I loved Taking Chances and From Ashes so much I'll give McAdams the benefit of the doubt. But because I was so disappointed with this one I'm not as excited for Letting Go to come out in November but when it comes out I will give it a try.

A.B.