Reviews for Early Harvest

The average rating for Early Harvest based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-08-03 00:00:00 Joey Carnicom HAIKU BOOK REVIEW:Early Harvest, by Amanda Clark Kiddies and kitties and corgis and gardens, a book made of sugar :)

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-08 00:00:00 Tanya Cornale Meh. Marriage in jeopardy due to a critical lack of communication, but these people don�t emote, so I couldn�t bring myself to care. Here�s the set-up: the protagonists live in the town of Eternity, Massachusetts, which has a wedding chapel with a legend attached about how the couples married there live happily ever after or have super-enduring marriages or something. Our couple was married in the chapel ten years ago, but they just split up this week because the heroine caught her lawyer husband in a kissy clinch with a lovely lady corporate lawyer he�s been working with on a local property development project. The h hasn�t told anyone about the split yet, which is a good thing because her sister has just waltzed into her jewelry design studio to announce that she just got engaged to her boyfriend who is about to move out of town and they want to get married in the magic chapel right away and have the h and H as their attendants because the protagonists� marriage is so perfect. That�s plenty to be going on with, yes? We have a scheming OW lurking around and a quickie wedding to plan and the unhappy, estranged couple needs to pretend to be happy and together for the three weeks it�s going to take to get her little sister married. But wait, there�s more. The wife is part of a community-based environmental organization that is directly opposed to the property development plans of the corporation her husband has been hired to represent. Also, our couple is childless, having gone through two miscarriages and years of fertility treatments to battle the effects of the wife�s endometriosis (thank you, Lucy Monroe, for educating me on that condition). They stopped treatments two years ago, at which point the wife threw herself into her jewelry design business, running her family�s jewelry store, and community activism. While her husband just worked a lot and didn�t say anything about how maybe he would like more time with his wife. Now he has an offer to join the corporation as an in-house lawyer, working on the west coast. [Note for the geographically challenged: Massachusetts is on the east coast, and the American continent is quite wide in the middle.] Dang, I�m exhausted. I can see what all of these pieces are doing in the plot, but stuffing them all in a category romance has left the author no time to focus on emotions or how people might actually behave in these situations. As a result, this book is 180+ pages of the worst active listening exercise in history. her: I saw you kissing the OW in your office. I am angry and jealous. him: What I hear you saying is you�re tired of our marriage and will latch onto any excuse to split up. him: Your negative reaction to my work for the land development corporation makes me feel judged. her: What I hear you saying is that you�re a corporate shill who wants to raze our forests and wetlands. Also, you want to move across the country to continue working with the OW, who might be able to give you children when I can�t. Also, you think I�m dumb. her: I didn�t tell you about my pregnancy because I expect to miscarry, plus I didn�t want guilt to keep you here when you have a fabulous career opportunity across the country. him: What I hear you saying is you want me out of your life despite the amazing sex we had last night. him: I love you and I now recognize the beautiful, brilliant corporate lawyer whose work I continue to respect and praise was scheming to come between us. her: What I hear you saying is that we have reached the page limit and it�s time for our HEA.