This is the sequel to Waiting to Exhale, but you don't necessarily need to have read that to follow this. I did, but I think I read it right around the time I read When Stella Got Her Groove Back, so I don't remember it. Still, I followed Getting to Happy easily.

This picks up 15 years after Waiting to Exhale and is set in 2005. It's about what happens after the happy ending that Gloria, Savannah, Robin and Bernadine found in the first book.

There are divorces and death, new loves, old loves and, of course, friendship. I don't want to say too much about what happens--and to which woman--because experiencing each surprise is the best part. But suffice it to say that these women all have indomitable spirits and can overcome everything.

I loved the four women in this book (Gloria probably most of all, but they're all amazing) and I hope they come back in more books.