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In My Mother's Shoes
Samantha Jenkins has always had a perfect life.
The only child of doting parents, she is on the fast-track for partner at an NYC law-firm at just 29 years old.
She has a best friend in her paralegal, Dexter, an apartment she looks forward to going home to every night, and a roommate in her cat Leroy. By day she is an attorney and by night, S.E. Jenkins, a brilliant artist poised to be the next Monet; keeping these two polar opposite lives completely separate is the only way to move through them both without the opinions of her parents or the judgment of her peers.
Simple and uncomplicated is how she likes her life but when Samantha's complicated and strong-willed mother becomes ill, the two tenets of her life she works so hard to keep separate collide and nobody is left untouched.
Not Samantha, not her secret keeping best friend Dexter, her parents, or the brilliant and kind Dr. Hayden Bryant, a man Samantha cannot ignore.
The only child of doting parents, she is on the fast-track for partner at an NYC law-firm at just 29 years old.
She has a best friend in her paralegal, Dexter, an apartment she looks forward to going home to every night, and a roommate in her cat Leroy. By day she is an attorney and by night, S.E. Jenkins, a brilliant artist poised to be the next Monet; keeping these two polar opposite lives completely separate is the only way to move through them both without the opinions of her parents or the judgment of her peers.
Simple and uncomplicated is how she likes her life but when Samantha's complicated and strong-willed mother becomes ill, the two tenets of her life she works so hard to keep separate collide and nobody is left untouched.
Not Samantha, not her secret keeping best friend Dexter, her parents, or the brilliant and kind Dr. Hayden Bryant, a man Samantha cannot ignore.
203 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 16, 2023
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April 27, 2025
I know the author so I’m biased. I have a soft spot for anyone from my hometown and like to hear that they are doing well. So I’ll try to be objective.
This was a cute story about Samantha Jenkins the successful lawyer, secret artist, daughter, friend and serial bachelorette. Samantha balances it all…kinda. When her mother becomes ill, she feels guilty for not seeing her parents as often as she could. She begins to reminisce about her childhood and the relationship she has with her very critical, particular, successful and strong-willed mother. She’s finding herself having to take care of the woman who she is realizing she doesn’t know as well as she thought.
What’s a cute story without a love interest, right? Well insert the eye candy oncologist and there we have it. His resilience from a difficult childhood and his gentle bedside manner does her in. She allows herself to take down her dating walls and let in Dr. Feelgood.
I’d put this PG read into the category of YA. The secrecy of the artisans, the innocence of Samantha’s interactions with her very own McDreamy, the ideal but imaginary world where a busy physician can spend so much time with one patient and the perfect matchmaking love story all make this a fun YA read.
The cover of this book is cute and it all comes full circle to what is discovered at the end of the book (I won’t give it ALL away). The line spacing and over-use of semicolons gave me a bit of a head scratch and became a slightly distracting, but overall didn’t take away from this fun read. I’ll be interested in reading book 2 of the series when it comes out.
This was a cute story about Samantha Jenkins the successful lawyer, secret artist, daughter, friend and serial bachelorette. Samantha balances it all…kinda. When her mother becomes ill, she feels guilty for not seeing her parents as often as she could. She begins to reminisce about her childhood and the relationship she has with her very critical, particular, successful and strong-willed mother. She’s finding herself having to take care of the woman who she is realizing she doesn’t know as well as she thought.
What’s a cute story without a love interest, right? Well insert the eye candy oncologist and there we have it. His resilience from a difficult childhood and his gentle bedside manner does her in. She allows herself to take down her dating walls and let in Dr. Feelgood.
I’d put this PG read into the category of YA. The secrecy of the artisans, the innocence of Samantha’s interactions with her very own McDreamy, the ideal but imaginary world where a busy physician can spend so much time with one patient and the perfect matchmaking love story all make this a fun YA read.
The cover of this book is cute and it all comes full circle to what is discovered at the end of the book (I won’t give it ALL away). The line spacing and over-use of semicolons gave me a bit of a head scratch and became a slightly distracting, but overall didn’t take away from this fun read. I’ll be interested in reading book 2 of the series when it comes out.
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