Questions About The Other Woman

by Sandie Jones (Goodreads Author)

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My question is why do people write reviews and have to give a complete summary of the entire book instead of why they liked or disliked it? This happens all the time and it spoils the entire book for those who haven't read it. I now just look to see how many stars a book is given before I read it and read the actual reviews after I'm finished to see if I agree. This one's ending left key things unexplained.

Ciclochick I so agree. The summary of the novel can be found anywhere it's available. When I read reviews I want to know what the reader thought about it and why…moreI so agree. The summary of the novel can be found anywhere it's available. When I read reviews I want to know what the reader thought about it and why: what was good, what was bad. And this is what a good review is about. Not an essay of the plot. I only include a very short summary of the book, firstly, to make sense of any pluses or minuses to anyone reading the review, secondly, if I reread a review of mine of old, a few words just trigger my memory of what it was about. I skip any reviews that are long. Reviews should be snappy, relevant, concise. At the same time, anyone who merely says 'it's okay', 'didn't like it', should be banned from writing reviews.(less)

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Dale Rosenberg I think this is one of many plot flaws in the book. There's also the question of why Emily hides her meetings with James. She doesn't have sex with hi…moreI think this is one of many plot flaws in the book. There's also the question of why Emily hides her meetings with James. She doesn't have sex with him and it only becomes such an issue (or would, in a normal relationship), because she hides it. And if all James told Pammie about Emily was that he had feelings for her, how does she know that Emily met him at a bar and dressed up for it, so she can torture about that at the hen weekend? And how did we go from Pammie and James trying to tell her not to answer the door because Adam "found out about James" to Adam deciding that James wouldn't have tried to get Adam to stop fucking other women unless he was having an affair with Emily, which is completely bizarre. I think the author just couldn't come up with a way for him to have found out.

But the worst flaw is Pammie and her motivations. She seems to be so gleeful in the awful things she does to Emily. And they are so mean!
If she just wanted to break them up, she wouldn't have to be so cruel to Emily and then have Emily complain to Adam and Adam get mad at Emily for saying his mother is mean. She could directly influence Adam - she knows he's insanely jealous and controlling and she could convince him Emily is cheating on him, or even lie and say Emily told her she had cheated. She is convincingly evil from the beginning, just to make the plot twist a surprise. In the foreword Pammie says she "almost feels sympathy" for Emily knowing that she won't really get married. This is the establishing scene that lets us know Pammie is evil. Since she isn't really, she would feel sympathy for Emily while she's doing awful stuff to her.

I'm not sure how to rate this book. It's full of flaws, and it's so clear that Adam is really awful and hard to see how Emily can't see it. OTOH, I really liked Emily and her friends and was very interested to see how it would all pan out.(less)

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Is the other woman Adam's mom?