Title: A Life Wasted (The Journal Prequel)
Author: Victoria Michaels
Date: 2022
Quote: "I can hear her breathing deepen. Something tells me it's not indigestion."
"The Journal" series is about the stories a woman never told her daughter, but left behind in an old journal. In the prequel, the mother dies, and the mother and daughter raise but don't resolve the question of whether a full-time mother's life is "wasted."
Personally, I think it's sort of an obnoxious question. Whose life is not "wasted"? Is it better to write books that aren't divinely inspired and don't save the world from itself, than to have children? Is it better to work in a factory, building cameras people might have used to annoy other people when they might have found better uses for the money? Is it better to be a doctor and prolong the lives of people who might have suffered less if they'd died earlier? Discussions of whether any human life is wasted, unless it might be a criminal's life, seem likely to generate heat not light.
I'm not sure whether anybody is more likely to buy a series of longer stories after reading a shorter story about a sad time in the main character's life when questions are asked and not answered, either.
If you want to be provoked into an argument with your book club, "The Journal" might be the series for you. It might even be a plus point that Victoria Michaels is known for steamy romances. Steamy romance attracts bad stuff to computers but people who like it can always read the e-books on cheap burner phones, right?
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