It’s Not About Him

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1. Christy Lockstein  •  Oct 1, 2009 @10:41 pm
   

   It’s Not About Him by Michelle Sutton is the second book in the Second Glances series. Susie Ziglar is trying to make the best of the horrific situation she’s found herself in. After passing out drunk at a party, she was raped and ended up pregnant. While at first she was determined to abort the baby, she instead ending up giving her life to God and decided to put the baby up for adoption. She just wants to do what’s right for a change, and that means keeping her distance from Jeff, despite his insistence that he loves her and wants to marry her. Jeff also recently gave up his hard-partying ways and turned to God, and now he wants to make a life with the beautiful woman Susie has become. Sutton depiction of a woman’s decision to put her child up for adoption with exquisite attention to detail: Susie’s gut-wrenching pain, occasional worries that she made the wrong decision, and fierce determination to do what’s right for her child are brilliantly rendered. Susie and Jeff’s romance happens in stutters and leaps and huge steps backwards, making it realistic and sweet. Sutton has a special talent for dialogue; she doesn’t keep it squeaky clean, but keeps it real. I could easily hear the characters talking to each other. She also portrays well the struggle that men have with the temptation women present with revealing clothing. It’s a gritty, realistic view of twenty-somethings, but with a message of hope.

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