In spite of her wild child ways, all Josie has ever really wanted is to get married and have children. She hasn’t changed much over the years, to Meredith’s frequent chagrin. Daniel and Meredith were always the sober, responsible ones Josie was the drama queen, exuberant and flaky. Josie is 38, an elementary school teacher, and a middle child with the opposite of middle-child-syndrome. Now both of the sisters are at a crossroads as old secrets brew and new opportunities arise. Josie and Meredith’s relationship, always contentious, worsened without Daniel’s steadying presence. His death splintered the family their alcoholic father went off the rails and their parents eventually divorced. Daniel was the oldest, a medical student and golden boy who died in a car crash.

Set in Atlanta, First Comes Love focuses on Josie and Meredith as the 15th anniversary of their beloved brother Daniel’s death approaches. I think it comes from being a romance reader at heart and wanting the thrill of a new romance and the promise of an HEA, rather than the quieter and more ambivalent conflicts of women’s fiction.Īnyway, I’m also not sure what prompted me to request First Comes Love from the description it sounded more women’s fiction-y than most: two sisters in their late 30s confront mutual and and separate challenges in their personal lives. It’s not that one genre is better than the other it’s just that I have a bit of a block about women’s fiction (though usually when I read it I like it fine). I’m not sure why I stopped reading your books after that, except that I felt like perhaps they were moving from chick lit to women’s fiction, which is a distinction I mostly make by the age and marital status of the main characters.

Jennie B+ Reviews chick-lit / Contemporary / sisters / Womens-Fiction 7 Commentsīack in the day, I really loved your first two books, Something Borrowed and Something Blue, and also liked the next two, Baby Proof and Love the One You’re With. SeptemREVIEW: First Comes Love by Emily Giffin

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