Sunday, March 1, 2015

The Divorce Papers A Novel Susan Rieger Review

Do you like reading books in a journal form?  Check this out...


Thank you to Blogging for Books for the opportunity to try this complimentary book in exchange for an honest review.

What it costs?
The Divorce Papers can be purchased for $9.99 from Amazon, here.


If you like books like Bridget Jones Diary, you may enjoy this book.  It is written in a journal format.

Per Amazon:
"Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old-line New England firm, where she very much appreciates that most of her clients are trapped behind bars. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but one week, with all the big partners out of town, Sophie is stuck handling the intake interview for the daughter of the firm’s most important client.

After eighteen years of marriage, Mayflower descendant Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim has just been served divorce papers in a humiliating scene at the popular local restaurant, Golightly’s. Mia is now locked and loaded to fight her eminent and ambitious husband, Dr. Daniel Durkheim, Chief of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at Mather Medical School, for custody of their ten-year-old daughter Jane. Mia also burns to take him down a peg. Sophie warns Mia that she’s never handled a divorce case before, but Mia can’t be put off. The way she sees it, it’s her first divorce, too. For Sophie, the whole affair will spark a hard look at her own relationships—with her parents, colleagues, friends, lovers, and, most important, herself.

A rich, layered novel told entirely through personal correspondence, office memos, e-mails, articles, handwritten notes, and legal documents, The Divorce Papers offers a direct window into the lives of an entertaining cast of characters never shy about speaking their minds. Original and captivating, Susan Rieger’s brilliantly conceived and expertly crafted debut races along with wit, heartache, and exceptional comedic timing, as it explores the complicated family dynamic that results when marriage fails—as well as the ever-present risks and coveted rewards of that thing called love."

I am going to be honest here, I did not finish this book.  When I am reading, I have to be captivated pretty quickly (within the first chapter or two) to finish a book.  If it does not, I put it down and do not find myself grabbing for it again.  I just could not get into this book.

Have you read this?  What did you think?

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Thank you to Blogging for Books for the opportunity to try this complimentary book in exchange for an honest review.

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