Name: Promises to Keep
ISBN: 9780143170549

Jane Green

Six people--sisters Callie and Steff Perry, their divorced parents Walter Cutler and Honor Pitman, Lila Grossman and the man of her dreams, Eddie--each receive a shocking note that summons them together for one extraordinary summer in Maine--a summer that will change their lives forever.

Promises to Keep

The personal lives of sisters Callie and Steff, their friend, and their divorced parents are irrevocably changed throughout the course of an extraordinary summer in Maine that forces them to reevaluate their relationships and roles.

Amy Maddess

- takes a very long time for the plot to develop, and once it does it just ends. There are a lot of different characters and I think it would have been better to separate them in to different books. 
- One of the characters consistently talks about not wanting to have children, and she is pressured by her partner and friends to do so. She is 42, and enjoys being childless. Then randomly, she gets pregnant despite being on birth control and decides to keep it to make her boyfriend and her dying friend happy. No discussions of the possible complications of carrying a child at this age.
- Another of the characters seems to be happily falling for someone she has met in the neighbourhood. He is initially presented as kind, helpful, handsome, and just her type. Then, while on a date, she sees something white on his nose, assumes it is coke, and decides to move in with her landlord whom she previously stated was uninteresting and unattractive. They fall in love in approx. 2.5 pages. 
-Unrealistic development overall, I don't need to go on.

Promises to Keep

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