Book Review | Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson
By Mrs S • Feb 10th, 2008 • Category: 5 stars, 50 book challenge
Marshmallows for Breakfast - Buy this book
Rating
5 stars - hard-hitting issues covered in a sensitive way - it’s going on my *read again* pile
Description
After Kendra Tamale returns to England from Australia, she rents a room from Kyle, a single father of two, and looks forward to an uncomplicated life.
Kyle’s young twins, Summer and Jaxon, have other ideas and quickly adopt Kendra as their new mother - mainly because she lets them eat marshmallows for breakfast. Even though Kendra is hiding a painful secret that makes her keep everyone - particularly children - at arm’s length, life improves for her as she becomes a part of their family.
Then Kendra bumps into the man who shares her awful secret and everything falls apart - especially when the kids are taken away by their mother. The only way to fix things is to confess all about her past, but that’s something she swore never to do…
Review - SPOILER ALERT
This is the second Koomson novel I’ve read, following My Best Friend’s Girl, and I really enjoyed it - stormed through it in a weekend in fact - it’s just one of those books that’s easy to read and keeps you wanting to find out more.
Koomson covers some hard hitting issues - alchoholism, divorce and rape - and she deals with them sensitively - don’t write this book off as pure *chick-lit*!
As the story unfolded I felt like I knew the characters; the twins are just adorable and it is heart-breaking at times the way they have to deal with their mother’s addiction. I have to admit that I hoped at times that Kendra and Kyle would get together to make the *perfect family* but Koomson went in the other - more realistic direction - and the ending was so much better for it.
This really is an enjoyable novel - and one that I highly recommend.
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