Tempting Fate Author: Jane Green | Language: English | ISBN:
B00F1RE1P2 | Format: EPUB
Tempting Fate Description
From Jane Green, the
New York Times bestselling author of such beloved novels as
Jemima J,
The Beach House,
Another Piece of My Heart, comes an enthralling and emotional story about how much we really understand the temptations that can threaten even the most idyllic of relationships….
Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters. They have built a life together. Forty-three year old Gabby is the last person to have an affair. She can’t relate to the way her friends desperately try to cling to the beauty and allure of their younger years…And yet, she too knows her youth is quickly slipping away. She could never imagine how good it would feel to have a handsome younger man show interest in her—until the night it happens. Matt makes Gabby feel sparkling, fascinating,
alive—something she hasn't felt in years. What begins as a long-distance friendship soon develops into an emotional affair as Gabby discovers her limits and boundaries are not where she expects them to be. Intoxicated, Gabby has no choice but to step ever deeper into the allure of attraction and attention, never foreseeing the life-changing consequences that lie ahead. If she makes one wrong move she could lose everything—and find out what really matters most.
A heartfelt and complex story, Tempting Fate will have readers gripped until they reach the very last page, and thinking about the characters long after they put the book down.
- File Size: 854 KB
- Print Length: 350 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0312591845
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (March 25, 2014)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00F1RE1P2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,832 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #4
in Books > Literature & Fiction > British > Contemporary
- #4
in Books > Literature & Fiction > British > Contemporary
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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