CLP Blog Tours Book Review: When Girlfriends Make Choices by …

Savannah Page is on tour now with CLP Blog Tours and When Girlfriends Make Choices. I have also read When Girlfriends Step Up from this series and I highly enjoyed it. I was eager to get back into the lives of six very different friends, and get to know Lara a bit better from this novel. Now, this is where the book gets tricky. I could tell something was up with Lara from Step Up¸ because she becomes a bit shady when it comes to her work. She works as an advertising executive and logs in long hours, but you could just tell there was something else going on in her life. Turns out she had been having an affair with a co-worker – a married co-worker. In Lara’s defense, when they first started sleeping together she had no idea Paul was married. He never spoke of a wife at the office and didn’t wear a wedding ring. By the time he fessed up to Lara that not only was he married but had two children, she had already fallen in love with him. But then they pick up their affair again, and Lara is fully aware that he is someone else’s. She becomes a bit obsessed with Paul, wanting to do whatever she can to make him choose her. Her friends (once she finally admits about her double life) aren’t supportive of the choices she is making, but Lara just can’t let Paul go. For once, she wants to fall in love and be happy – but at what cost?
I had so many conflicting emotions throughout this story, because as someone who is walking down the aisle in five months, I don’t want to read about infidelity. But it was really interesting to get the perspective from the mistress. And like I said, Lara had no idea Paul was married when they first got together, and I do believe her when she says she never would have welcomed his advances if she had known. So I could understand why she was already in love with him and why she didn’t want to let him go, but it was still hard to swallow. I again loved the girlfriend angle, and how close the friends are and how they support one another. Looks like the next book follows Claire, and I’m really looking forward to reading that. So even though I didn’t quite love the affair angle, Page still writes with honesty, makes the story very realistic and easy to read, and I still recommend this series to chick lit readers!
4 stars