Just Breathe - Susan Wiggs

Title: Just Breathe
Author: Susan Wiggs
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2008
Pages: 470
Genre: Romance/Women's Fiction

Wow...I can't believe it has been since June 20th that I have written a post. My book reading has really slowed down since I got a part-time job, but I so want to meet my goal of 100 books this year. I have been involved in reading other blogs and writing on the Weight Watchers message boards that I think my reading has been sidetracked. I need to learn how to budget my time. LOL.

Well, on to the book...Susan Wiggs pens another winner with this reader. I just love her work, and she doesn't fail to deliver in this one. She brings real life issues to her stories; this one being infertility and cancer survivor and the tolls both situations take on a family. I really enjoyed the sweet romance between Sarah and Will. They have to sort through many issues and family situations in order to be together (step children, infidelity, abandonment), and it was a great ride seeing if they would make it in the end.

Sarah is a cartoonist who struggled several years to help her husband beat cancer. Afterwards, she started getting inferility treatments so they could begin a family...that is...until she found out that her husband has been cheating on her. So, she goes back to Northern California, back to her family.

There she meets high school heartthrob, Will Bonner. He is a firefighter with family issues of his own - deserted by his wife, he is raising his teenage step-daughter. "But just as Sarah's heart is about to reawaken - she discovers she is pregnant with her ex's twins...the winds of change have led Sarah here. Now all she can do is just close her eyes and breathe."

I loved Will Bonner. I could feel his pain as he tries to deal with his teenage daughter's change of moods, growing into puberty, and her middle school crush. He flounders helplessly, and you just want to wrap your arms around him and tell him he is doing the best he can.

Sarah's self-discovery as to the mistakes she made in her marriage kept her real for me. There are always two sides in a marriage. She also realizes her inner strength...not only dealing with the trials of her husband's cancer, but also the trials of being pregnant and having twins. She stands on her own two feet and doesn't let people walk all over her.

Thias was a fantastic read and will be on my shelf of keepers.



Rating: 4/5
Pages: 470
Completed: 6/21/09

Just Breathe - Susan Wiggs

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