chick book — 4 friends, babies, switching around — all find Happiness at End — True? No Way

Fifteen years after graduation, best friends Jay, Franny, Emerson, and Stevie meet at their college reunion. Life has taken each of them in different directions -- Jay is a married man with a baby on the way while Franny yearns for a child as she searches for love in all the wrong places. Divorced single mom Emerson is drawn to a man who challenges everything she's come to believe about finding a once-in-a-lifetime love. And Stevie's life has recently been rocked by a shocking revelation -- the answer to a family secret that will shatter everything she believes about herself.

Couldn't finish it. The author spends more time describing the characters by what they wear than in revealing a plot or moving the story forward (this one has a navel ring-she's wild! this one wears Prada--she's an aristocrat!). Too much telling not enough showing--I felt like I was being spoon-fed the characters' backgrounds, rather than letting them be revealed through their actions. ( )

Reminded me of a soap opera of the lives of four college friends and how they lead their separate lives, but come together to share strong bonds and relationships and find true love. (I wrote this before reading prior reviews. Ironic that they called it a soap opera too.) ( )

Soap Opera. It went in one eye & out the other. It is about a group of friends and their troubles. #1 & #2 (male & female) end up together; #3 stands up to her mother & marries a (superduper) Norwegian, #4 finds her father, proves he isn't a murderer, and is able to commit finally, to a superduper guy.

Actually I know this is just another relationship / romance / feel good type of not very well written 'soap', but I loved it.