The Stepmother - Carrie Adams

I'm always on the look out for a good book but tend to find I loose interest in most of them before I even reach the halfway point. I don't really like the chick lit type books that are totally predictable and always end happily with the girl chasing the guy for the most part of the story and then ending up together. There's just no substance to many of them and I feel like once you've read one you've read them all. On a recent visit to my local library I selected five books in total, one of which I got board of after just three pages and I only ended up finishing two of them. There was however one which really stood out... "The Stepmother" by ...  Read the complete review

The stepmother is the sequel to Carrie Adams' The Godmother which I wanted to review first but after suggesting it weeks ago unfortunately it is still 'in progress'. So whilst still fresh in mind Ive decided to get reviewing. Carrie Adams is married to theatre producer Adam Spiegel, who is responsible for putting Dirty Dancing on the London stage. They have two young daughters and live in LOndon. The Godmother was published in 2006 and the sequel The Stepmother in 2008. Although there are references to 'The Godmother' in her sequel Id say that you could read it also in its own right. The novel is available in paperback from amazon for £5.49. ...  Read the complete review

After reading a review of this book on here, I knew I was going to have to read it myself. Being an avid reader of all things chick lit, the concept of the novel wasn't unfamiliar, so I was intrigued to see how it was going to be written differently to all the other novels that include step parents and extended families. In the stepmother, you have one man in the middle of two women with a spattering of children thrown in for good measure. Jimmy was married to Bea for ten years and has been divorced for the last four years. They are still very good friends and also have three children together. Neither one has ever met anyone else until now, when Tessa enters ...  Read the complete review

The Stepmother: Written by Carrie Adams PLOT: Bea and Jimmy split up 4 years ago, and divorced 2 years ago, after a long but stressful marriage, and 3 children, there was lots of misunderstanding during their breakup and neither of them quite know what happened seeing as they never spoke about it. But now, they're still on good terms, and get on better than they did when they were married. Jimmy has his girls every other weekend and Wednesdays meaning Bea gets time to herself, something she never had when she was married! But, their relationship is friendship ONLY. Or is it. Bea has started to feel something for Jimmy which she hadn't felt for a ...  Read the complete review

Bea is the ex-wife of Jimmy. They have three lovely girls together and an amicable separation. Over time Bea realises that although she was the one to break the relationship up, she made a mistake and wants Jimmy back. Only trouble is, he has finally got over Bea and has a new girlfriend. One he loves and who adores him. Breaking the news to Bea and the girls starts a tricky and new episode in everyone's lives. Especially for Tessa, the new woman in Jimmy's life and the new stepmother to the girls. This book made me think it was a chick lit story that would be easy going and romancey as well as funny. I wanted something simple to balance up the ...  Read the complete review