Review of A Questionable Friendship by Samantha March
I received a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.
Looking for a realistic read with drama and heart? If you are, this one’s for you. I’m not typically a fan of realistic fiction, preferring instead to escape into the otherworldly, but A Questionable Friendship drew me in. For me, the most engaging part of the novel was Brynne’s brush with mortality. Recently, I had a very challenging episode when I had my first mammogram. I spent the day draped in a wraparound gown with a room of other anxious women awaiting results from my scan then chewing my nails and texting my husband when I was given a more diagnostic test. By the time we moved on to an ultrasound, I was in tears, thinking how unfair it was that women spend their lives dealing with boobs and Pap tests. I also sympathized with her need to and inability to conceive. The tension, the pressure, Brynne experienced really resonated with me. And who hasn’t dealt with friendship issues? We’ve all had those friends that we really loved become distant and drift from us. The love and eventual distance between Portland and Brynne dredged up some regrets of my own.
I have to admit I was a little envious of the love between Aaron and Brynne. He was perfect, maybe bit too much, but hey, everybody loves a romance! I was surprised by the twist with Portland, but I had some difficulty actually seeing the event as completely plausible even seeing all the problems she and Trent were having, and I’d rather the epilogue have been Brynne sometime in the distant future, possibly seeing her a few years distant from the climax. Overall, though, this was is a great, chick read.
4 Stars
Looking for a realistic read with drama and heart? If you are, this one’s for you. I’m not typically a fan of realistic fiction, preferring instead to escape into the otherworldly, but A Questionable Friendship drew me in. For me, the most engaging part of the novel was Brynne’s brush with mortality. Recently, I had a very challenging episode when I had my first mammogram. I spent the day draped in a wraparound gown with a room of other anxious women awaiting results from my scan then chewing my nails and texting my husband when I was given a more diagnostic test. By the time we moved on to an ultrasound, I was in tears, thinking how unfair it was that women spend their lives dealing with boobs and Pap tests. I also sympathized with her need to and inability to conceive. The tension, the pressure, Brynne experienced really resonated with me. And who hasn’t dealt with friendship issues? We’ve all had those friends that we really loved become distant and drift from us. The love and eventual distance between Portland and Brynne dredged up some regrets of my own.
I have to admit I was a little envious of the love between Aaron and Brynne. He was perfect, maybe bit too much, but hey, everybody loves a romance! I was surprised by the twist with Portland, but I had some difficulty actually seeing the event as completely plausible even seeing all the problems she and Trent were having, and I’d rather the epilogue have been Brynne sometime in the distant future, possibly seeing her a few years distant from the climax. Overall, though, this was is a great, chick read.
4 Stars
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