First things first, I am a new fan of Diane Chamberlain...if I liked 'Keeper's of Light', I loved 'The Midwife's Confession', and I for sure am infatuated with 'The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes', and mind you, to me infatuation is stronger and more forceful than love...after all, love expects a little love in return...infatuation knows no logic, and doesn't even dreams of being reciprocated :D (okie that was some uncalled for philosophy...but that was just so me :) )
The first two novels that I read by Chamberlain, dealt with people who had already died...they were about how after the death of someone so close to us we realize that we never the person who died...while it is gripping to know the truths of a person who no longer exists, it is more grappling to read how a very much living person confronts the secrets they have hid and concealed in their heart for years...how do you really come out in open and confess to the truth which can ruin the entire life you had built in years...
As said, in the earlier post just a while back, teenage is the time, when you are expected to do everything wrong...it is so very easy to succumb to all the temptations...hold on to things that really seem right (though hardly are)...it's an age when you are old enough to hate taking someone's advice..and still young enough to make wrong choices..and so very often we do make the wrong choices...I am sure almost all of us have some secret relating to the teenage which we can't confide in anyone...something we did that's impossible for us to tell the world...it's just that most often, we do things which really don't change the course of our lives, just make us feel guilty...but then, there are few unlucky ones, who end up doing something which makes them change the course of their lives...so much so, that they have to become a new person to carry out with life...
Some choices made at teenage, changes who we are as a person...erases our identity, and forces us to take a new one...something similar happened to CeeCee...it was a book of hopes...hopes in the first part, because it showed even after doing the worst kind of mistake one possibly could, life gives you a second chance to make it all right...that you really can have new beginnings and a happy future...for CeeCee had one...
But can we really change identities and have a happily ever after...true that no one in this world other than us knows who we really are...but at least we do know...and can you yourself kill the person you were...sooner or later, to live and thrive in your own eyes, it's time to go back to who you were...accept the repercussions of your actions..it's easy to ignore what other think of you, but it's tough to fight the demons within you...so CeeCee reveals herself after a decades...
I kind of liked almost all the characters in the book...they were believable and not overboard...a perfect blend of grey...in fact the only character going on the 'it can't be true' side was the character of Cory...she did get a lil unbearable...and I really could never understand how pampering can really hamper someone's growth like it did to her...but then again, even her character makes you realize that generally it's just in happy times that the people we love become strangers...in times of tragedy and need, the estranged ones come back...and maybe that's the beauty of love...one might forget your love during the happy times when all is well...but those you truly loved would sure be there for you when things take a downturn...and maybe that's why life needs a blend of both good n bad times...good to have fun and enjoy the ride...bad to get the ones we lost in happy days back to us again (philosophy fir se...I know)
I am definitely smitten by the way she writes...attracted to the twists and turns she brings around...Diane has turned out to be an author with aces her sleeves...and she definitely can make the simplest of lives a perfect story to engross you for hours to come...
My personal ratings..4 and that one point is lost all thanks to Cory...Dru was so much more likable than her, honestly...all in all, it's a must read...and now I will go back to find the fourth novel of Chamberlain...after all, I need to know what's greater than infatuation ;)
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