Heartbreak at Roosevelt Ranch
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4.4 • 15 Ratings
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- $0.99
Publisher Description
I had it all. Two beautiful children. A gainfully employed husband. A successful food blog.
The only thing missing from my life was . . . heat.
And I wanted to live. To live loudly and without fear.
I also wanted my husband to think I was as hot as I was when we were high school sweethearts. More, I wanted what my sister had: love, passion, and a husband whose love was infinite.
Because something was happening with Rob. Had he fallen out of love with me? Had he found someone else? Was I not—
Sigh.
Was I not enough?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Faber continues her Roosevelt Ranch series (Disaster at Roosevelt Ranch) with this uneven contemporary tale about a food blogger and a cop whose marriage appears to be hitting the rocks. Melissa is content with her life as a wife and mother in Darlington, Utah, until she finds a secret cellphone with messages that imply her husband, Rob, is having an affair with a mysterious woman named Celeste. As if that's not enough, when an unexpected dinner party at her sister's turns into a chance for Melissa to have her own cable cooking show, she's thrilled but her husband isn't, further driving a wedge between the two and making divorce seem likely. Faber's competent characterization (particularly of Melissa and her pregnant sister, Kelly, the heroine of the first book) pulls the reader into the story, a heartbreaking view into a marriage devolving so when Faber takes an almost cartoonishly soap opera like series of detours late in the book, readers may feel misled and annoyed. Melissa's villainous mother and an unexpected relative are irredeemable, making the reader wish for their demises as soon as possible, and Faber's late, sharp veer into thriller territory just doesn't ring true. (BookLife)
Customer Reviews
This book just broke my heart!
Melissa and Rob were high school sweethearts and now they are married with 2 kids and a dog. And when Melissa finds a cell phone hidden under their mattress and on it are texts from another woman, she starts to see all the clues that lead her to believe her husband is having an affair.
This book just broke my heart! I wanted to shake Melissa and tell her to confront him and then kick him out. And as for Rob ... well you don't really want to know what I wanted to do to him. At times I just wanted to through the book across the room and then in the next chapter I just wanted to cry ... and I did. My heart hurt for the whole situation. You know it's a great book when it can get such strong feelings from you. I highly recommend this book and just remember to have tissues close by.
I received an ARC courtesy of the author through Net Galley in exchange for a honest review.