27 October 2014

Review #37: Mad About You by Sinéad Moriarty




My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Emma and James Hamilton are one of those couple who are very much going through their mid-life crisis, but fortunately, no matter how bad the storm gets, they won't let their ship sink to the bottom of the ocean. Their spirit and determination to keep their broken ship afloat amidst of all the wild tsunami in the ocean is remarkable and it gives us a lesson to make it work and hold on to each other even in the worst peroid of our lives. James's elder brother, Henry, thinks that we are not entitled to the terms of husband and wife in our marriages, instead there is no wife or husband, there is just one thing called friend-Marriage is friendship between two friends- a man and a woman and they always trust and love each other till death makes them apart.

Sinéad Moriarty, a bestselling Irish author, in her ninth novel, Mad About You, has spun a tale about the imperfections of a marriage.

Synopsis:
Emma and James move from Ireland to London for James's new job as a coach of a rugby team. James and Emma have two kids, Yuri, adoptive son and Lara, biological daughter. Soon Emma bags a job as a make-up artist at her sister, Bab's TV show. James goes on to prove himself on his team after his fiasco in Ireland, thereby almost getting no time to spend with his wife and kids. Emma leans on a nanny, named Claire, to help her juggle her long work-hours and her kids. Eventually James and Emma drift apart in their marriage, but when James started getting sex texts and sex toys, Emma started to question James loyalty and her trust slowly starts to fade away. Their marriage almost falls apart while James and Emma try to unravel the identity of this stalker.


Depending on the fact that there is a mystery to be solved amidst of James and Emma's marriage, the plot gets very deep and rich with emotions. But unfortunately, this mystery couldn't light up any spark in my mind, because the author got loose with the hold on her mysterious elements while mentioning about this stalker, moreover she left a lot of loose ends, thereby when the first whiff of the stalker is fed in to the story, in an instant, I guessed out who the stalker was. So all the while, when Emma was trying to put the pieces of puzzle of this mystery, I was constantly praying that why Emma wasn't pointing her finger on that particular person, and that made me almost hate Emma. Any smart or sane person could easily figure out the mystery.

Anyways, other than the poorly mentioned mystery, the plot is very articulate. The characters like say, Emma, is a typical mid-aged woman, who has just stepped into her 40s, very vulnerable to make a slip to overcome her mid-life crisis, and is also very annoying most of the time, very short-tempered and loves her children like crazy. Babs, Emma's sister is full of attitude and ego and trust me, I've never seen such a rude woman like her ever in my life, and moreover she talks way too honestly. James is way too handsome, who is a coach and a husband, and is devoted towards his wife and kids but he gets too obsessed in proving himself.. Lara and Yuri are adorable and sweet, who really love their mommy and daddy and the way they talk will make you fall in love with them. I consider them as the gem of this book. The backdrop is not too dramatic or glittery, they used to live in a quiet suburb in London, they had friendly neighbors, one was Eco-freak and another one was way too bold on her own. This book is a total crazy mixture of so many different kinds of characters who are very alluring and at times they cam make you ROFL.

Read this book if you  enjoy a light summery read with some spicy elements!

Courtesy: Thanks to Penguin Ireland for the review copy. 
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Author Info:
Sinead was born and raised in Dublin where she grew up surrounded by books. Her mother is an author of children’s books. Growing up, Sinead says she was inspired by watching her mother writing at the kitchen table and then being published. From that moment on, her childhood dream was to write a novel.
After university, she went to live in Paris and then London. It was at the age of thirty, while working as a journalist in London that she began to write creatively in her spare time – after work, at lunch times … and, truth be told, during work hours.
After a couple of years toying with ideas, she joined a creative writing group and began to write The Baby Trail. The bitter-sweet comedy of a couple struggling to conceive hit a nerve in publishing circles. It was snapped up by Penguin Publishing in the UK and Ireland and has, to date, been translated into twenty-five languages. Read More

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