Reviews for What Matters Most

The average rating for What Matters Most based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-08-27 00:00:00 Jarrod Dee A very preachy book about lost love. Two couples, one the parents of the son of the young couple, are drawn back to Ireland where the story began twenty-three years ago. Bernie and Tom had a child they gave up for adoption because Bernie felt a calling to be a nun in America. The son is raised in an institution, never adopted, and falls for another orphan. Eventually the two are split. Both become irritatingly emo, as well as the parents of the boy. After twenty-three years, the nun, Bernie, and the father, Tom, return to find their son. Of course he wants nothing to do with them. The whole book revolved around Bernie, the nun. I really have no sympathy for her character. She was incredibly unlikable, fickle, and naive. I just wanted to smack her for not taking responsibility for her own actions.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-01-02 00:00:00 John Gould This was the worst love story I've ever read. I actually stopped to read portions to my husband and we laughed out loud at the sappy, ridiculous events. A woman who is now a nun, and the groundskeeper at the abbey, take a trip to Ireland to see how the son they had together is getting along. Horror of horrors, they find that instead of the happy family they envisioned him gaining from the orphanage, he was never adopted and ran off to be on his own. This starts a search for the son, a questioning of the nun's previous choice to give up the child and take her vows, and raises hopes in the groundskeeper that he may win his lady yet. Laugh out loud awful, and I haven't even spoiled the best (worst) parts.