"A skillful look at "what family means" and how they must adapt to survive."
Reviewed by Sandi Shilhanek
Posted February 20, 2009
Romance Series
Anyone who knows me knows that I was and still am a fan of
the Everlasting Love tag that Harlequin puts on one
SuperRomance a month. For the month of February this tag
went on WHAT FAMILY MEANS by Geri Krotow. When I sit down with an Everlasting Love book I don't truly
know what sort of read I'm going to get, I only know that
it will be one that has my emotions going from laughing to
crying, like a tennis ball going back and forth across a
net. WHAT FAMILY MEANS was no exception. Will and Debra Bradley are an unlikely couple not only
because of their very different upbringings, but also
because they are a mixed race couple. Their marriage has
managed to endure not only family pressures but societal
ones that one can only imagine unless they have lived
through those experiences themselves. As it must life is once again evolving for the Bradleys and
they're about to be grandparents. However, their daughter
is somewhat estranged from her husband, and Debra being the
person she is, worries that their daughter Angie might not
realize how important family is, and thus the reflection of
their lives begins. Debra hopes that showing Angie what
all her parents had to overcome to have a long successful
marriage will help Angie to realize the love she has for
her own growing family. Never once does the author force her own personal opinion
about the right or wrongness of races marrying, but rather
does a skillful job of showing a family dealing with life's
pressures, and adapting as one must in order to get along
in the world. WHAT FAMILY MEANS was the second book I've read by Geri
Krotow, and I hope I have many more to look forward to in
the future.
SUMMARY
To Debra Bradley, marriage is being with the man you've
always loved—despite the odds. Despite what other people
think. And marriage is about family, about protecting your
children from a sometimes hostile world. To her husband, Will Bradley, family is about creating a
safe haven. Where it doesn't matter that one of you is
white, the other black. Where it's never mattered… All these years later Will and Debra are still in love,
still each other's best friend. They've made a good life for
themselves and their children. But their daughter,
Angie—pregnant and estranged from the husband she loves—has
to discover for herself what family means….
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