2024 the best of everything by rona jaffe review
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The popular sequel to Class Reunion, Rona Jaffe’s After the Reunion continues the heartwarming story of Daphne, Emily, Chris, and Annabel five years after their class reunion. The affluent quartet, now in their mid-forties, is each coping with romantic and domestic problems at home while trying to outgrow the social and moral codes that controlled them during their Harvard years. After the Reunion is a return to some of Rona Jaffe’s most beloved characters, and readers will undoubtedly embrace their own reunion with these characters on the page.
ASIN : B00T5H2CA0
Publisher : Open Road Distribution (February 24, 2015)
Publication date : February 24, 2015
Language : English
File size : 3337 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 342 pages
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Read
Review: I recentley re-read this and other Rona Jaffe books. I read these as a teenager and wanted to see how I felt about them as an adult. In general; I remembered Jaffe's books being good but depressing. I found After the Reunion to be one of the rare instances the characters were older; wiser; and happier at the end of the book. A good read. I would recommend this book.
Reviewer: Jill Shure
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Rona Jaffe's books are always a joy to read!
Review: This wasn't quite as terrific as the original Class Reunion, or The Best of Everything, but it certainly came close. This follow up to Class Reunion features the same women with a few additions. Each woman has a story to tell about how her life measured up to the 1950's stereotypical view of women's roles in society.All of these women, based on the 1980's view of new values, have found that their original choices of home, hearth, and motherhood had unexpected challenges and heartbreak. After the Reunion shows the women regrouping and following destinies they never imagined in college. Instead, each of them breaks ground with a new career as well as a new relationship after discovering their husbands had become drug addicts, cheaters, or drunks.Jaffe has a style which doesn't rely on loads of dialogue. She breaks the rule and tells the thoughts of her characters. Yet her books are extremely readable and very enjoyable.
Reviewer: Ooma
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Her books bring back memories of an easier era...
Review: I am extremely pleased to have this book again. I read this book in 1982 at the tender age of 18. I lived with my dear grandfather in the San Francisco East Bay back then. I will reread this book after finished with the one I am currently reading. Rona Jaffa...such a lovely blast from the past.
Reviewer: Stephanie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book!
Review: Great book and fast shipping!
Reviewer: Laura
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Enjoyable
Review: It's not a complex story by any means but it was nice to finish the story of Class Reunion. It's a quick read and a cozy novel.
Reviewer: Maya
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Three Stars
Review: Great quick read.
Reviewer: Dusty
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Confronts daring topics
Review: Hot Toasty RagReview of "After the Reunion"Anyone who read Rona Jaffeâs Class Reunion knows that one book isn't enough for the four Radcliffe girls. Emily, Daphne, Chris, and Annabelle could star in as many books as Jaffe cares to write, in my opinion. She's both a sensational and realistic writer, choosing enough drama to keep you hooked and enough intimacy to make you see the characters as dear friends. In After the Reunion, the four women whose lives did not turn out the way they thought in college continue their difficult journeys. Don't even think of reading this book first, and, in fact, if you haven't read Class Reunion, don't even finish reading this review.Emily's marriage goes from bad to worse, and as her husband treats her cruelly, her children alienate her. Daphne has to endure the greatest tragedy of all, and in the aftermath, her family has to decide what's truly important. Chris is still ruining her life and doing her heart a disservice by clinging to the man who will never love her back, and she turns to food for comfort. And Annabelle, still beautiful and unattached, starts to wonder how long her carefree affairs can continue.I loved After the Reunion, not only for the intense drama, but also for daring to confront issues that most authors would tiptoe around or avoid altogether. It is incredibly realistic to see Chrisâs dissent into obesity, as she purposely gives herself an excuse as to why her husband isn't attracted to her. Daphne's relationship with her daughter is very sad, but that, too, is realistic. The arguments, affairs, substance abuses, and friendship written on the pages will make you feel as though youâre eavesdropping. And as usual, Jaffe intertwines all the characters and plot points so that although it is a very big city, it is still a small world. I could have easily read a third installment but instead will continue to find more of her novels and delve into her separate, brilliantly written stories.
Reviewer: Jo Dickens
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Great novel. Did not want to put it down. Fabulous characters.
Reviewer: Trish
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Lovely that a book was written to finish off to complete the part about their lives after. Brilliantly written loved every minute of it and couldn't put it down.