Getting To Happy (Review/Spoiler)

When reading Getting to Happy, honestly the only thing that I could think about was Getting to the End! I literally had to MAKE myself pick it up and finish it.

I sooooo wanted to love this book because I really loved the movie Waiting to Exhale, so I was looking forward to seeing how these women were doing after 15 years. Waiting to Exhale left us all feeling hopeful that these four friends were on their way to finding true happiness but just like the title of the sequel suggest they are STILL trying to find it.

I was dissappointed in how these four strong, smart, successful black women were portrayed in this novel. Savannah is working in a job she loves but is in a "boring" marriage that ends in divorce once she finds out the her husband is addicted to pornography and is having an affair. Gloria ,who seemed to be the only one who is actually happy and happily married ends up a widower when her husband is shot and killed during a drive by while shopping for anniversary flowers at a local plant shop..(whaat...who has shoot outs at Lowes..LOL). Her friends who should have been there to console her, do so at first, but then begin to become more concerned about her weight gain than how she is doing emotionally. I mean the woman just lost the love of her life for crying out loud, just be there!

Robin, who at the end of Waiting to Exhale is left pregnant by Russell has decided to keep her now 16 year old Sparrow (I didnt make the bird references until another character mentioned it). Robin is now a single yet desperate mother who is run over by her daughter. She tries to find love via online dating but it ends badly when she finds out the man she has been corresponding with is married. She does however find love in the end, with Micheal, the same one she dissed in the last book. Bernadine (Bernie) by far was the one that had me the most dissappointed. She is now a pill popping drug addict a habit she develped after James (wesley snipes), turned out to be a complete liar, living a double life, married to two women. YES..the just lay in the hotel bed and hold me routine was a set up..ugh..he played her and took her money.

So there you have it, a divorcee, a widower, a druggie, and single/desperate mother is what you have to look forward to when reading this book. Like it or Love it I guess!!

I have come to the conclusion that when it comes to Terry Mcmillian I like the movie versions better. I have read a couple of her other books, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and The Interrruption of Everything and I had sort of press my way through those as well, but not like this one. I think that there just have been too many good books put out over the past few years that made this novel so dissappointing.