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A Slight Change of Plan

By: Dee Ernst
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
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Widowed Kate Everett is looking forward to starting her "second act". She’s planned out everything that she wants - a new house, a new job, maybe even a new man. She can’t wait until everything falls into place.

But life has a way of butting in, and Kate soon finds herself dealing with unexpected houseguests, helping her daughter plan the world’s smallest wedding, and sudden unemployment. Things get even more complicated with the reappearance of her old college love, Jake. He realizes the mistake he made years ago in letting her go, and is eager to win her back.

Kate thinks that she and Jake can build something real, and that maybe her happy ending is in front of her at last. But the arrival of Edward, her daughter’s future father-in-law, presents Kate with an unexpected choice.

It looks like real happiness may require a slight change of plan.

©2013 Dee Ernst (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Contemporary Family Life Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction
Humorous Story • Engaging Storyline • Good Reader • Relatable Plots • Interesting Romance • Well-done Story
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This was a wonderful story of a widow now 55 and how her thoughts turn of her first love and what he was doing now and then finds him on a dating website. There are so many things that I just LOL priceless. I was glad to see the man she choose for her future.
The narration was so so.

Our First Love

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A woman with two great catches in pursuit. You can't help but cheer her on. Great story. Narration could have been more believable.

Interesting Story Line/Narration way over the top

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Chick lit for the 50-something set ... Since I'm a member of that group, I did enjoy listening to it. The narrator speaks with an exaggerated New Jersey accent. At first, the accent felt fake and distracting. After awhile, just kind of grows on you. Nothing particularly meaningful about the book. Just a pleasant enough read.

Chick lit for 50-somethings

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I enjoyed the romance of a woman over 50. Juggling kids, parents is very relatable.

Refreshing

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Great audiobook! Great story! I listened to it in one day! Very entertaining. I would highly recommend it in either form.

Plan on listening!

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The only thing was that it contained a lot of alcohol and let me thirsty. Difficult for struggling AA members like myself

Slow to start but worth the wait!

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I really liked this story in the beginning. I listened to the book and the narrator was fun to listen to. There was a lot of humor which I love in any book...but then it just got old and there was no real story towards the end. It wasn't a bad book, but I was expecting more out of it.

Good writing but slow story

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With the exception of one incredibly unrealistic character, A Slight Change of Plan was humorous, engrossing and entertaining, especially for the over 50 crowd.

I loved that the novel centered on Kate, a 55 year old woman who was ready & eager to enjoy life to it's fullest. Kate, widowed for 8 years with 3 grown children, was brave enough to make attempt dating and try a new career. The plot was an interesting mix of family drama, friendship and romance, in that order of importance. Serious issues of adultery, illness, and difficult family members were mixed with lighter moments; enjoyable without being depressing or sappy sweet.

Unfortunately, there was one ridiculous character - Kate's mom - who was too nasty to make the ending believable. Spoiler: Mom stopped speaking to Kate right after her husband died and avoided all contact for EIGHT years. When Mom was hospitalized, Kate rushed to her side and took Mom home to care for the nasty bitch regardless of how cruel and hateful Mom treated Kate.

First, no decent mother (or human being) would be deliberately & relentlessly hurtful for months & years without regret or remorse. Second, no woman should allow anyone, including a parent, to disrespect and degrade her feelings & intelligence. I kept waiting for Kate to stand up to the old hag but she never did, which ruined the rest of a very good book.

Great Plot with Huge Flaw

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This was a great book to listen to on vacation - light and true to how life can throw you some curves along the way.

Enjoyed this book

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the whole story is beautiful, very everyday can happen to anyone plots and situations, Kate gets tangled a fee times which reminds me of myself

loved it

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