Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Sweet Magnolias Feels Like Family by Sherryl Woods

Rating: WARTY!

Anything with the word 'magnolia' in the title is a definite no. This one is just stupid: "At 42, career woman Helen is finally ready to start a family" Finally ready? The very fact that she's put her career first tells me she's half-hearted about a family at best, and she apparently doesn't even have a partner! Not that she needs one by any means, but the fact that she's left it so late and has nothing in the way of a plan really mitigates against the assertion that she's a successful business woman. The two facets of her life would seem incompatible. And it's a real question mark against her commitment to this. The odds are against any woman trying to start a family in her forties: less than fifty percent. This tells me Helen is an idiot who didn't think this through. It doesn't mean she can't get pregnant by any means; very many women do, but having read this blurb, I have no interest in following this woman's story at all. She's not someone I feel compelled to care about.