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    Pam of Babylon
    Pam of Babylon
    Pam of Babylon
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    Pam of Babylon

    By Suzanne Jenkins

    3.5/5

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    A beautiful life at the beach is marred when Jack has a heart attack on the train from Manhattan. His wife and two lovers discover secrets and lies, and each other. The first in the series of 18 books and several short stories in a soap opera which follows Pam through each discovery.
    2. Don't You Forget About Me
    3. Dream Lover
    4. Prayers for the Dying
    5. Family Dynamics
    6. The Tao of Pam
    7. In Memoriam
    8. Soulmates
    9. Save the Date
    10. I'll Always Love You
    11.Beach Spirits
    12. South Shore Romance
    13. Meet Me at the Beach
    14. Pam's Adventures in Babylon
    15. Second Chance
    16. If I Ever Leave You
    17. Touch Me When We're Dancing
    18. Portrait of Marriage
    19. Children of the Dead
    20. Dinner with Pam
    Return to the Beach
    When I was Young
    Gladys and Ed's Big Adventure
    Beautiful Heartbreaker
    Short Stories: We're Just Friends, Julie Hsu
    Pam of Babylon Romance Boxed Set
    Free on author's website: First Sight, A Good Beach Day
    Free introductory short story on author's website.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzanne Jenkins
    Release dateFeb 13, 2015
    ISBN9781311395733
    Pam of Babylon
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    Suzanne Jenkins

    A retired operating room nurse, Jenkins lives in Southern California.

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    • 4/5
      I have had this book on my Kindle for a while. I mostly listen to the audio versions of books but am trying to delve back into the written versions just a bit. Mentally my mind can not ponder heavy reads and felt this book would hit the spot for a fluffier bit of entertainment. I was wrong. If your looking for a review that will discuss the plot feel free to move on. You can get that from the author's summary. Sorry but this is about why I liked this story enough to begin book two.

      This is the first book in a series. I think it could be read as a stand alone but once read I needed to know more about the characters and began book two. I can understand some of the bad reviews but in real life we get to know people a bit before we dismiss them...or at least we should. The characters in this book are more complex than the reader originally assumes. Even though the character that initiates all the initial actions and consequences dies in the beginner he still plays a major role in the first book. If character development is one of the things that pulls you into a story than this book is a good selection for you. I absolutely felt I was getting to know the characters personally as each new secret or nuance was exposed. I may not have liked each character or their reactions but after getting to know them more I can understand the reasons.

      The book I thought would be fluff has turned out to be quite a bit more.
    • 4/5
      A good book filled with heart and craziness. Little twists and turns kept me intrigued. Although I must say I don't find Pam a particularly like able character.
    • 4/5
      When he is found dead, the last number found on his phone is who is notified of his death. It is not his wife! And so the story begins. Full of love, deceit, hidden secrets, and most of all healing and forgiveness. This is the first in the author's series. It moves quickly and held my attention. I would read more by this author.
    • 1/5
      Horrid. Kept reading, wondering if she would ever reveal she knew anything about Babylon other than it had a train station and was near the water! She did not. Apparently just looked at a map and built the woman a six bedroom cape on the Atlantic Ocean!!!
    • 5/5
      When a book starts from a seemingly perfect place for the character, you know he is not going to stay there long… So when Jack Smith is looking at the face of Sandra, his mistress, thinking “I am the luckiest man alive,” his luck is at its end. Not only would Marie, his wife’s sister, find out about his affair, but he would to live long enough to try to handle the scandal with Pam, his meek, trusting wife.While he is cheating on her, Pam waits excitedly for his return. “She had the week to prepare for his homecoming… she tried to make it an oasis for him.” Despite her trust in Jack, she knows intuitively that things between them are not quite right. “There was a tiny, itsy bit of doubt, a niggling worry, an insecurity in the back of her mind. He was disconnected from her.”When she gets a call from the hospital that Jack has died from a heart attack, Pam goes to pieces and then, gradually, reassembles them, finding a new strength in herself. She now learns the truth about him and a few of the women with whom he betrayed her. Sandra, too, goes through grief: “Her life had changed overnight.”This book is about looking forward to restart life already, even in the presence of death. It is about healing, part of which comes from forgiveness. I know this sounds strange to some readers, who find Pam’s behavior ’too unreal.” Apparently it is easier and perhaps more natural for many of us to succumb to vengefulness. At the same time, this is exactly why this book is so fascinating. It offers a different possibility, a more hopeful one. “There was something about cleaning up, washing everything, that spoke of new beginnings.”The author, Suzanne Jenkins, stated that she wrote the character as the opposite of herself. “I am at the opposite end of the spectrum of reactions....I wouldn't be forgiving and embracing.” Yet I feel that by the end of the story Pam inhabits her to such a degree that her words come straight from the heart, gut, and mind.Five stars.
    • 4/5
      Wow talk about worlds getting turned upside down, this book has it! Guess we should remember that things are not always as they appear.Pam Smith has what looks like is a perfect life, she lives in Long Island, NY and on the ocean...in a beautiful cottage. Her children are grown and away at college, when she receives the news. Her husband has had a heart attack...and has died.I don't believe I would have reacted to the facts that come out as well as Pam does. She is one strong person. While things are being revealed you wonder who or whom she should trust? Then there's Jack...the father of her two children, and you want to hate him.We learn a lot about these people and the people who raised them, are we repeating another generation.Suzanne Jenkins has written a page turner, and I can't wait to get into the next book. Don't miss this compelling read!I received this book from Pump Your Book Virtual Tours and the Author Suzanne Jenkins, and was not required to give a positive review.
    • 5/5
      I won the second book in the series from a giveaway, so the Author generously gave me the kindle edition of this book to read so I would be up to date. Thank you Suzanne Jenkins!! She is now one of my favorite authors, this book was so wonderful! It had me angry, sad, and then happy. Just what a good book does for you, it was a wonderful escape to another world. The lives of these women, so effected by this one man. The characters were so clear and detailed, the world around them was described so beautifully that I wanted to live at the beach with Pam myself. I am so excited to start the second book today! There are also parts of this book that were so surprising and gritty and touched me personally. This book had twists and turns that kept coming at you, keeping your attention and making it so hard to pit it down. It was unexpected, and great. I may have to re-read it to make sure I got it all! It's that good to me.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book. And, disclaimer, I'm really good friends with the author. That didn't stop me from noticing grammatical errors and wishing her editor had done a better job and it also didn't stop me from losing myself in the pages and the story and just going along for the ride. This is a great beach book, or bathtub book, or just lose yourself for a night or two book.You would think that the worst news Pam Smith will ever hear is that her husband has dropped dead on the train ride home from the city - and you would be absolutely wrong. Because it gets totally worse from there. In a way that seemed totally believable to me, Suzie Jenkins unravels Pam's life on an almost daily basis. She's trying to adjust to widowhood at the same time that she's trying to come to grips with what her marriage may or may not have been - what she thought her marriage was turns out to be one lie after another. As the situation worsens, as the unreal shadows deepen, more people rely on her and she must find inner reserves just to make it through the next five minutes, let alone the rest of her life. It's not your typical mystery, it is filled with the mysteries of daily life: the private lives of people and how little they actually know about those they are most intimate with for year after year and how little they know about themselves.

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