Tempting Fate Author: Visit Amazon's Jane Green Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0312591845 | Format: EPUB
Tempting Fate Description
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Popular chick-lit author Green (Family Pictures, 2013) tackles another hot issue for women in her new outing: temptation outside of marriage. Gabby Cartwright is a happily married mother of two who meets an attractive man a decade her junior while out for a night with her girlfriends. Gabby has an instantaneous and powerful connection with Matt, an entrepreneur with a successful website. Though nothing happens the first night they meet, Matt begins e-mailing Gabby, and she finds herself looking forward to his messages and responding in the middle of the night while her husband, Elliot, sleeps. Though Elliot is a devoted husband and loving father, Gabby hasn’t quite forgiven him for having a vasectomy and denying her the third child she’s been longing for. Given the book’s title, readers might have an inkling of what to expect when Elliot goes to a conference out of town, leaving Gabby on her own for the weekend, but Green takes things in interesting directions as she deftly explores the aftermath of Gabby’s rash, impulsive decision, making her latest a captivating cautionary tale. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A substantial initial printing, author appearances, book-club call-ins, and many other media and online promotions will mobilize best-selling Green’s large, social-media-stoked fan base. --Kristine Huntley
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“Family Pictures left me feeling envious of the friends to whom I recommended the book, because they had the prospect of an engrossing story to gobble up in the near future. Green's novels consistently deliver believable, accessible, heartfelt, often heartwarming stories about real people, problems, and feelings.” —Redbook
"Will linger with you after you close the book." —People
"A riveting story about two women who are strangers until a shocking secret brings them together." —SheKnows.com
"Explores complex family dynamics with warmth. An inverted fairytale in which happily-ever-after occurs without the prince." —Kirkus Reviews
"This gripping story is ultimately one of redemption. Green’s many fans won’t be disappointed, and this would be an excellent choice for readers who enjoy the fiction of Jennifer Weiner or Marian Keyes.” —Library Journal
“An absorbing read with a gratifying conclusions.” —Booklist
“The women she writes about are believable and likable characters, but their lives are also complicated and rooted in realities that keep them grounded.” —Baltimore Sun
"Bestselling author Green’s compelling novel will shock and surprise readers with a startling revelation as surely as it will tug on their heartstrings. Once again she displays her gift for creating characters readers will care about.” —RT Book Reviews, “Top Pick”
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- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (March 25, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312591845
- ISBN-13: 978-0312591847
- Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I've been a fan of Jane Green for more years than I can remember. She's always wrote great chick lit novels, but these days they have a bit more of an edge to them.
Tempting Fate revolves around Gabby, a 40 something English housewife living in the U.S. Married to an American Man, Elliott for over 20 years with two daughters, one about to hit her teenage years and the other almost at adult age, Gabby sees her life is a bit dull and she can feel herself getting older. Restless and tired of her routine, Gabby dolls herself up and goes for a night out with the girls. It is here she meets Matt, a rather dashing Man ten years her junior but with the power to make her feel special again.
Gabby slowly becomes more obsessed with Matt as they flirt via text and email. She convinces herself it's harmless fun, she loves Elliott and isn't one of those women that have an affair. Finally, they can no longer resist each other and spend a fleeting, reckless moment together which results in shocking consequences.
Tempting Fate is possibly the most honest book I've read around this subject matter. Instead of glorifying an affair or night of cheating as something wonderful, yet risky it's made blatantly clear that Gabby and Matt's moment was a guilt inducing mistake. The aftermath they leave in their wake is emotional and heartbreaking. It's a real and truthful tale of "you don't know what you've got til you sleep with someone else and blow it all apart".
I really liked Gabby, you can really understand how she was feeling and how she somehow stumbled from mild flirtation to regrettable night of passion.
(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to Penguin Books (UK) and Netgalley.)
43-year-old Gabby is flattered when on a girls-night-out she is chatted up by a younger, good-looking man. Gabby is happily married though, with two daughters, and she isn’t about to have an affair.
Then Gabby receives an email from this guy – Matt, and suddenly they are exchanging flirty emails and texts, and Gabby agrees to meet with him again.
Gabby isn’t going to cheat though is she? Could she really live with the guilt of being unfaithful to her husband? And if she does, what will the consequences be?
This book was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster – one that I certainly hope to never have to ride personally!
Gabby was an interesting character, but I was so mad at her for the situation she got herself into! It wasn’t even as if she had a bad marriage or a bad home life, admittedly she had wanted a third child and her husband had not, but still – she loved her husband, and he loved her, they had a beautiful house, 2 beautiful kids, and a great relationship, and she had to go and ruin it.
The storyline in this book was okay, but I have to say that I really hate it when people cheat, and I really hate reading stories about people who cheat. I immediately felt uncomfortable at the way Gabby was behaving in the bar with this other man, and I felt that her emails to him, their texting, and meeting was as much of a betrayal to her husband as was her sleeping with him. Although they only actually slept together once, the relationship went on for a lot longer, and being emotionally unfaithful is just as bad as being physically unfaithful, maybe worse in fact because she had allowed feelings to grow.
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