The Children of the Roses Book Review

The War of the Roses was a hit. Love turned to bitterness to destruction. But is it only the married couple it impacts? No. The children and everyone else is impacted, sometimes even generations later. This is the story of the children from the book and movie and how their own lives as adults have been impacted by the dramatic marriage and death of their parents.

I’ll admit that I didn’t realize the movie was a book first. And I’ll admit that I didn’t give the children of the Roses much thought at the end of the movie. I should have. I mean their parents just didn’t get a divorce, they killed each other in the process. That would change anyone, and it did to their son and daughter.

Decades later, the reader meets the children grown with their own lives. The daughter has lost herself in food and men. The son has found himself determined not to repeat his parents’ mistakes with his own marriage and children. Determination is not always the best defense to not repeating the past as he finds out. His own marriage takes a hit and is on the road to destruction. He’ll find himself repeating history before he knows it.

This is a read that has the reader not just in the mind of the son of the Roses. We get into the mind of his wife as well to realize that sometimes it is not just the one “bad” guy in a marriage. There are multiple…