Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner - Review

Hey everyone,

So today i'm here with another review of as little book that I really enjoyed, Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner.

The story is one of those ones which has a number of different characters and it alternates between their perspectives which are my favourite types of books and so when I realised this I was really intrigued to read this book. 

The back of this book says:

Jules Wildgren is a twenty-one year old Princeton college student with a full scholarship and a family she's ashamed to invite to Parents' Weekend. Tall, blonde, and outwardly identical to her wealthy high school classmates, her plan is to take the ten thousand dollars she'll receive from donating her 'pedigree' eggs and try to save her father from addiction.
Amie Barrow is a thirty-four year old married mother of two who scrapes by on her family's single paycheck.After watching a TV show about surrogates, she thinks she's found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.
India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), believes she's found her happy-ever-after when she marries a very wealthy and much older man, Marcus Croft, but decides that a baby will seal the deal. When all of her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology - and Annie and Jules - to help make her dreams come true.
But each woman's plans are thrown into disarray when Marcus suddenly dies, and his twenty-three year old daughter, Bettina, is named guardian of India's unborn child. As the baby's due date draws near, these four women - with nothing and everything in common - discover what makes each of them a mother in her own right.

In terms of story, this book has a really new story to me, i've never considered reading anything similar to this and now that I found this one it's something that i'd try again in the future.

PLOT: 

I love the fact that all of the women in this book are involved in something so incredible and important as the creation of new life and the way that they all have to be involved even if there is only going to be one baby at the end. 

CHARACTERS:

Jules - Jules has had a hard life, she struggles daily with the way she was brought up and the fact that her father is in such a terrible state and that she can't help him. The fact that she donates her eggs in order to help him shows what an amazing and selfless person she is and really endeared me to her very quickly into the book. However she must also consider the fact that there will be a child out there somewhere that she will never know and can she really live with herself knowing that she has a child with her DNA out there that she signed her rights away to seeing?

Annie - Annie is a mother of two little boys with her wonderful husband and when she decides to make some money by becoming a surrogate she jumps at the chance. She decides to give another woman who wants a chance at having a child the opportunity to do so which is another really selfless thing to do. However what will happen when she grows a child inside of her and then has to just give it up to another woman?

India - India is a 40-something year old woman who cannot have children and so she must turn to Jules and Annie to make her dream come true, she lives a life of luxury and has only just decided that she wants a child with the man that she fell in love with. 

Bettina - Bettina isn't one of my favourite characters, she is suspicious and rude to India who her father has fallen in love with and married. She takes an immediate disliking to her and wont get past the fact that her father loves this woman.

All in all I love this little book and it's something that I would like to read again in the future and i'd recommend it to anyone who likes something a little bit different.

Leigh xoxo