Sue 's Reviews > Best Laid Plans & Other Disasters

We first met Gwen in Amy River's previous book Wallflower Blooming which introduced us to Gwen while highlighting her cousin Val's life and her work to help Gwen get elected as mayor. Gwen is sure that once she reaches her goal of becoming mayor of a Colorado city, the path will be clear for her plans to be a future governor of Colorado. That's before she is faced with a colleague who is trying to cause problems, a workload that is overwhelming and a boyfriend who no longer meets her expectations. Her boyfriend, Jason, works for the same town and after conflict of interest charges keep getting brought up, he decides to take a job that has him travelling most of the time. To top it all off, her cousin Val has an upcoming wedding and Gwen is the maid of honor and has all of the extra work involved with a wedding adding to her already strenuous work load. Then something happens that make Gwen question the importance of all of her other stressing problems and she has to make a decision on how to deal with the unexpected changes in her life.

I definitely enjoyed this book. Despite some of the lighter moments, there are problems in this book that every working woman has to address. I loved the main character, Gwen, and her cousin Val and enjoyed their relationship with each other. The reminded me of people that I know in my everyday life. Gwen is a definite type A driven personality but has to make a lot of changes when life throws her a major change.