Sam’s Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson REVIEW #1

I’m off to a good start with my once a book reading resolution for 2011.  I started one book, but gave myself permission to not read it any longer.  I hated the dialog and the story line was giving me nightmares.  (Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen – she lost me when the bad guy said to the beautiful nake blonde, “Shut your mouth and open your legs.”).

Desperate for something to read, I rumamged around in my nightstand and found Sam’s Letters to Jennifer.  My MIL passed along this book to me after she read it.  In the back, she wrote (very good).  I agree, Gloria, very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Letters-Jennifer-James-Patterson/dp/0446613347/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295624847&sr=8-1

I love books writen in diary and letter form, called epistolary novels.  (think Bridget Jones’s Diary (loved it and recently re-released with illustrations!!!), Diet Girl (loved it), Holly’s Inbox (loved it))  This short novel is two love stories intertwined.  While Jennifer reads the letters from her grandmother, while her grandmother is in the hospital with a coma.  As Jennifer waits for her grandmother to awaken, she develops a relationship with her neighbor and old childhood friend, who has a devestating secret.  As their love blosssoms, he finally confides.  But, it is too late to back away and protect her heart. Jennifer is hoplessly in love with Brenden, and she is there for him in sickness and in health. 

This novel is a quick read.  I read in three nights, just before bed (I needed a break from my Suduku obsession!).  I highly recommend this book for a quick, light read.