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A review by qu33nofbookz
Family Tree by Susan Wiggs
3.0
So this story starts with Annie a young woman who seems to have it all. She's a smart woman and great cook who is the producer of a top rated cooking show starring her husband Martin. However even though she is a great cook she isn't in front of the camera because she doesn't have the right look ethnic wise according to the network. (No mention of what ethnicity she actually is can be found in the book but by description maybe Italian?) Other than that her life is perfect....too perfect if you ask me. She is also a bit of a pushover and a vain doormat, but more on that later. She has just discovered that she is pregnant and rushes to work to tell her hubby. (Lots of foreshadowing of events to come that are very in your face and obvious). When she arrives at work she finds hubby cheating with his young, perky, blonde, big boobed cohost (who was a talentless nobody who was hired because she looked right for their image...whatever that was.) She storms off only to get caught up in an accident that puts her in a coma for a year with a traumatic brain injury (which really isn't by the time she wakes up). Back in her hometown her first true love Fletcher is at home with his young son who is watching Annie's cooking show which was filmed right after she was in this accident like it never happened, her hubby couldn't care less (we know he's an a**hole from the cheating bit but I suspect he'll be even worse as the story goes on.)
The rest of the story is presented in parts of now (from when Annie wakes up from her coma) and then (her senior year of high school to when she created her show and married Martin). She goes from a confident teen and take no bullshit young woman into a doormat and there is no reason why at all seen. When Annie wakes up from her coma caused by traumatic brain injury she spends a month learning to walk and do everyday things all over again....a month....get real! By the end of two months she is driving and drinking like nothing happened when she should still be recovering and on to many pills to drink alcohol. Her family isn't rich but they only mention money problems once in passing from all her medical bills. Her brother's reaction to this is to start growing pot because hey soon it will be legal in their state...maybe.
In the flashbacks we see her meet Fletcher, grow to love him, have her mother try to split them up, his dad get into an accident and lose his legs, they break up and she moves on when she meets Martin. In the present she learns Martin divorced her while she was in her coma (not believable) and had her shipped home like luggage and has been using her medical money from the accident for himself. She comes up with a new way to make money off her family's Maple syrup operation and starts cooking again. Her old network wants her back but she doesn't want to work with her ex but he made up paperwork when she was in love with him and when she was out of it that she couldn't do anything without him. She gets out of it because of some loophole in the state he divorced her in and because of her condition she couldn't contest anything, also Fletcher the judge will help her out. In the very end she marries Fletcher and has a new show and a baby on the way and we have to assume that Martin got what he deserved as his show was likely canceled and she had a lawsuit against him for her hospital money and a resettlement of divorce but all that was left out so we'll never know.
The rest of the story is presented in parts of now (from when Annie wakes up from her coma) and then (her senior year of high school to when she created her show and married Martin). She goes from a confident teen and take no bullshit young woman into a doormat and there is no reason why at all seen. When Annie wakes up from her coma caused by traumatic brain injury she spends a month learning to walk and do everyday things all over again....a month....get real! By the end of two months she is driving and drinking like nothing happened when she should still be recovering and on to many pills to drink alcohol. Her family isn't rich but they only mention money problems once in passing from all her medical bills. Her brother's reaction to this is to start growing pot because hey soon it will be legal in their state...maybe.
In the flashbacks we see her meet Fletcher, grow to love him, have her mother try to split them up, his dad get into an accident and lose his legs, they break up and she moves on when she meets Martin. In the present she learns Martin divorced her while she was in her coma (not believable) and had her shipped home like luggage and has been using her medical money from the accident for himself. She comes up with a new way to make money off her family's Maple syrup operation and starts cooking again. Her old network wants her back but she doesn't want to work with her ex but he made up paperwork when she was in love with him and when she was out of it that she couldn't do anything without him. She gets out of it because of some loophole in the state he divorced her in and because of her condition she couldn't contest anything, also Fletcher the judge will help her out. In the very end she marries Fletcher and has a new show and a baby on the way and we have to assume that Martin got what he deserved as his show was likely canceled and she had a lawsuit against him for her hospital money and a resettlement of divorce but all that was left out so we'll never know.