Georgie and Nick Symonds have fashioned a rather unique married life. Nick is an up and coming player as a Wall Street attorney. Georgie is the creator and facilitator of a think tank organization in suburban Connecticut. Nick commutes to work in a seaplane. Georgie seems rather secluded while living close to her mother, grandmother and sister. Just as she is garnering well deserved attention and financial backing for her work it becomes obvious that she is also becoming more obsessed with her feelings of mistrust toward her ambitious and often absentee husband. The fact that Nicks traveling partner is an equally ambitious, bright and beautiful co-worker adds to her feelings of insecurity. Georgie's organization, the Swift Observatory, studies human reactions to changes in their lives. One of her first studies involves a woman who confronts the other woman in her husband's life. What started out as an expression of outrage and hurt winds up as a case of unintended or at least unplanned violence in the form of a knife attack -- a butter knife attack to be more accurate. Quite often you find yourself wondering whether these stories of heartache and tragedy aren't just filling Georgie with more angst toward her husband and concern about her own married life. But then again all marriages have their ups and downs and the successful ones have learned to weather them. That seems to be the important message that she has to learn. The question is whether she will get it before inadvertently destroying her marriage.

Luanne Rice intricately weaves the family story of Georgie and Nick and their extended families with the cases that the Swift Observatory studies. At times the cases are truly more interesting and certainly more intriguing then the family's lives. Sometimes Rice belabors the point that this marriage has some serious issues to resolve -- perhaps that is the point. But this is truly a book about changes and how these changes affect our lives. Some changes are just more noteworthy than others but add in the human factor they seem more important then they really are in fact. How we react to changes is the point of the book. Perhaps that's what Rice meant in calling this book CRAZY IN LOVE. Does love make us crazy or do we drive ourselves crazy in our search for the perfect love, relationship, married, family life, etc. The magic word is perfect -- nothing is perfect. No love, no relationship, no marriage and certainly no family so why make yourself crazy -- just live with it and the changes that are bound to occur. It's just life after all.