CHEATING TO SURVIVE
by Christine Ardigo
BLURB:
Hate your boss? Want to Strangle Your Husband? Be Glad Your Co-Workers Can Keep a Secret.Can Cheating on Your Husband Bring Unimaginable Pleasure or Completely Destroy Your World?
To her three daughters, Heather is a fun-loving, silly mom. Her co-workers at Norlyn Plains Hospital think she has it all, including a handsome lawyer husband.
But when a flirtatious new doctor chooses Heather to spend his down time with, he reminds her of the man she regrettably gave up so many years before. Each interaction breathes new life into her and she gives in to the doctor’s seductions, threatening her fifteen year marriage.
Her co-workers Victoria and Catherine, are stunned by her actions, but when they see the positive transformation in Heather, and question their own crumbling marriages, they wonder if she has the right idea.
Can cheating on their husbands bring the three of them happiness? Or will they be destroyed by the consequences?
**Can be read as a Stand Alone or part of The Fix It or Get Out Series**
MY REVIEW:
To start with, this book wasn’t written to condone cheating in a marriage. The three women actually try to talk each other out of, to them, their necessary evil.
We have three women with three different dynamic families, husbands and illicit affairs. Heather’s ill-fated marriage was doomed from the beginning as she married out of pressure from her peers, her family and her own insecurities. Lance is a totally self-centered man with no concerns about his wife or his children. He only wanted a trophy wife and someone that treated him like his mother. Please. Grow up.
Catherine and Victoria on the other hand, actually married out of love. But as happens in young marriages, people grow up and change. Usually apart. If you don’t share any hobbies or interests while you’re dating, you surely won’t share any once you’re married.
Out of the three illicit affairs, Catherine’s was the most dangerous and evil. But, ironically, her wrong type of affair brought about the biggest change in her self-awareness and the greatest happiness. Victoria is my age and the type of man she meets is right up my alley. I can only wish.
Oh, and let’s not forget Jean, their boss. Ardigo does such an awesome job in her portrayal of this hateful, spiteful woman. We all know someone in the workforce that always takes credit for someone else’s ideas and work. I did get a tad confused though, when Heather went to pick up something at her house and met Jean’s husband. I thought that was going to go somewhere, but it didn’t. I believe that part of the story could’ve been erased without affecting the story.
I would also like to applaud the author for using creative simile’s that related to their work as Nutritionists. I don’t know how many readers caught those.
This is a wonderful read, and I couldn’t wait to get to the end. I highly recommend the book and give it my 5 feathers.
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