Crush by Ada Calhoun: book review
Crush by Ada Calhoun Overview: Unnamed narrator is invited by her husband to start kissing other men. He sells this as opening their marriage in a way that's sexy to him and more fulfilling to her, since she loves kissing and he's never been all that into it. Really, it seems like a bandaid to assuage his feelings about an affair years ago and an excuse for him to eventually start dating other women again too. Instead of giving up on the marriage, she takes him up on this, falls in love with an old friend she reconnects with, and struggles with the entire concept of polyamory, a relationship structure she wanted nothing to do with. While she knows her marriage is basically over, she doesn't want her son to be a child of divorce, so she's willing to try anything. Overall: 3 Characters: 2 I just don't understand this woman... Most women stay in marriages they're unhappy in because they became stay at home mothers and have no prospects of making an income that wou...