Marriage Vacation

It took a while for me to get into the book, but I enjoyed. It gave more context to the tv series, Younger and made me like the series more.

If you love the TV Land series  Younger , this book is a MUST READ. It's a great tie-in to the characters and storyline. If you're not familiar, Younger is about a 40-something year old woman named Liza who pretends to be 20-something in order to get a job at a publishing house after her divorce. Based on a  novel , the series was developed for television by Darren Star, also famous for  Sex and the City  and  Melrose Place . Liza succeeds (for the most part), but has to play the part of a millennial in all aspects of her life, which proves to be difficult at times. By seasons 4 and 5, the company she works for ends up buying and publishing the book "Marriage Vacation." As it turns out, the "author" Pauline is the wife of the head of the company. The story is based on her real life, when she took a "vacation" from her marriage by running off to Thailand to "make a difference," to rediscover herself, and to write again. She does this with no planning, no notice, and barely an explanation, leaving behind her husband and two daughters.When I first started reading "Marriage Vacation," I took Pauline's side. I could see her point of view. She's lost herself. She got married, became a wife to a successful business man, became a mom to two kids...and just lost every part of herself as an individual. I could definitely feel for her and sympathize with those feelings. I think we've all felt lost at one point and wanted to get away from everything.On the other hand, there comes a point where you make your own choices and have to be responsible for the choices you've made. She chose to get married. She chose to have children. You can't just walk away from your responsibilities, not expect there to be consequences, and have everyone just waiting for you to return to your normal life after you've gone and had your fun.The novel was an easy, interesting read, though, and really gave me some more insight into the character of Pauline on the TV series. It also works well as a stand alone chick-lit story, even if you no nothing about the TV series. I also enjoyed some of the extras details in the book. There's an author bio and acknowledgements of the fictional character of Pauline. The book also says on the spine and inside that it's a "Millennial Imprint," which is from the TV series.

I liked it. As my headline states, its a good quick read. We really get to know Charles'/Carl's backstory, what he was like when he was younger, pun intended, as well as what he became after the death of his father. I guess my only complaint was the explanation of why Pauline/Kate left and didn't come back for 18 months. Without giving anything away, she always has Mother Teresa like reasons for not coming home, over and over again. They pull out all the stops to make the reader understand her side and why she stayed away. It reminded me of the movie "Guess Whose Coming to Dinner". Poitier's character was so perfect that he felt a little contrived, as if the black man had to be flawless to be acceptable enough that Hepburn and Tracy could not find any possible reason to reject him. Remade, I would like to hope that movie would be made a bit different today.Anyhoo, I digress. If I was being honest, I guess my biggest problem with the book is that there would be nothing that would have kept me away from my son when he was her girls age. Plain and simple she abandoned them and there is nothing that, in my opinion can sway me to being okay with that. I do not care how unhappy she was. Her character has a voice and a brain. If Charles was ignoring her emotional needs, she could have spoken up or left him, left him in a place where she had access to her children. I just can't get past that.

As a big fan of Younger, I was excited to hear that this book was becoming a reality. I love the idea of having an opportunity to engage in the plot line of one of my favorite shows in an new, unconventional way. I hope this is the first in a long line of fictional novels from Younger coming to life!As other reviewers have said, it’s a light, fun, quick read and allows you to get to know Pauline/Kate’s character in a more intimate light...and also provides a few insights on Charles/Karl. If you're a fan of the show, but don't have time to read the novel - don't worry. You won't be missing out on anything too juicy (except for page 58, that is).Upon finishing, it left me wanting more, more, more! If this were a standalone book, I'd immediately start counting down the months until a sequel was released. But, lucky for us, we just need to wait until next Tuesday night for the narrative to play out further on television!

I bought this book right away when I heard about it since I am a Younger fan. I love the TV show and can't get enough. The writing is very well done and insightful. It is hard to write this character as sympathetic leaving her family to discover her own passions, but what I get out of it is my own sense of passion. I think this book will resonate with a lot of women since this is a problem a lot of women find themselves in as they give up their dreams being a housewife and supporting their husband and kids. You may be pampered, but is that what you really want? This is what Marriage Vacation tries to answer. Why can't women have it all? I love the tidbits from the show and as a stand-alone book I am a fan as well.

Good book. As a fan of the show this was kinda neat to see it and read it in "real" life. I must say the character was better than the actress who plays her in the show. I guess I that could be seen different ways but it took away from the book to keep picturing that actress. She seems wrong for the part. Nice story and very relatable as a married mom of two girls. Enjoyed.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and could completely understand and sympathize with the main character. I mean, who wouldn't want to decide one day to just hop on a plane and forget about real life for a year? While the idea seems a bit out of reach for most, the author did a great job of making it seem feasible, and the story and characters were spot on. An entertaining and quick read!

the book is light and fresh but the paper quality and cover are really thin and cheap.

I absolutely love to this book. I couldn't put it down!! Great story!!

La historia es buena (más si eres fan de la serie Younger) pero la calidad de impresión es de lo peor. Las hojas llegaron pegadas, mal cortadas y algunas hasta rotas.

I would not recommend buying from the seller good for readers since they clearly can't follow instructions on customer requests. However no hate towards the book.

Grazie