The Frog Prince.

I just finished another Jane Porter book! Hooray!

Ok, I have to prelude this review with the fact that I am currently coming down from the high that many of Jane's other books put me on. She's Gone Country, Odd Mom Out,  and Mrs. Perfect were really great books! Odd Mom Out alone made me laugh and cry because I completely related to the main character so much. I literally AM the odd mom out. In church, my family, my neighborhood...all of it. So those three books, which are tied together, (there is a fourth book I have yet to read called Easy on the Eyes) are phenomenal. I loved them!

So I had high expectations for The Frog Prince. And well....it wasn't at all what I expected. Not that it wasn't a good book! Because it was! It was just different from what I expected. I had a hard time feeling sympathy for the main character, Holly, until about 2/3 of the way through the book, and I desperately wanted her to have a romance. But...that's just because I am a Romantic Fiction writer and I crave melodrama like nobody's business.

This is a story of a woman whose marriage falls apart just one year after the wedding. She finds herself alone and has to create a whole new life for herself. She succeeds, but it takes her a while, and her relationship with her mom was hard to read about. Maybe it reminded me of my own maternal relationship with my mom, but it felt painful in places. This wasn't a romance at all, it was a story about a woman finding herself.

I really liked it! It wasn't my favorite of Jane's books, and it had a completely different tone, but it was very good and made me think more than her books usually do. It was incredibly inspiring, though, and it made me want to see it in movie form really bad! Something with Renee Zellwegger and some inspiring musical montages. There was a scene where Holly goes on a date to an italian restaurant with an artsy fartsy author and he asks for a phone book to sit on that made me laugh so hard my side hurt! I could so see Ms Zellwegger doing that.

So go get this book and read it. Especially if you are questioning yourself at all, or if you are questioning your relationship with your mother. It was thought provoking and funny, a great combo for a good book!

Brooke Moss.