Trouble in Paradise

by Jennifer Greene and Jeanne Grant

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515078301
• ISBN13: 9780515078305
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good second-marriage story

"Trouble in Paradise" tells the story of Susan, a shy bookstore owner who falls in love with and marries dynamic Griff Anderson, a successful local businessman. Griff has already had one unhappy marriage, and he has three children from that union: thoughtful eighteen-year-old Tom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Barbara, and adorable ten-year-old Tiger. Susan loves the children, but has private reservations about how to handle them.At first, Griff and Susan's marriage is wonderful. They buy an old house and restore it. They go alone on a camping trip up north in their home state of Minnesota. But when Griff's ex-wife neglects the children one time too many, Griff gets a court order for the children's custody, and they come to live with him and Susan. Then, the peaceful household is plunged into chaos. Susan also begins to have doubts about why Griff married her. Was he really in love with her, or did he just want a mother for his kids?I found this story excellent and absorbing. Most of the characters are real and sympathetic. I found the description of Susan's bookstore particularly interesting. The boys, Tom and Tiger, are appealing characters.The one fly in the ointment, (and which keeps this from being a five-star review), is the heroine's stepdaughter, Barbara. The girl is so obnoxiously hostile to Susan that after awhile, Barbara begins to lose reader sympathy, (even after Barbara excuses her attitude as a misdirected act of loyalty towards her own mother). Otherwise, I highly recommend this story; it's good on every other level.