Sam's Letters For Jennifer
James Patterson
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2004 Little, Brown & Co.
ISBN: 0316710571

Two unforgettable love stories: one from the past & the other in the present.

No, Sam isn't a man, & they are not those kinds of love letters. Sam is Jennifer's grandmother who is in a coma in a hospital after taking ill at her Midwest lakeside home. She has left a pile of letters for her favorite grandchild, telling her story which she could not do in person.

Jennifer is a typical 30-something year old, sour on love, plagued by memories of childhood & despairing of finding any purpose to her life. & then the rock upon which she's anchored her life, seems to be slipping away.

In Sam's Letters For Jennifer is the real story of her grandmother's life, & it's not the one Jennifer has always known. It has been a family secret, concealed for decades, & is the most moving love story Jennifer has ever heard.

As her grandmother's love story unfolds in the pages of her letters & she begins to recover in hospital, Jennifer lets her guard down, & meets again the boy next door. This new love may come at a cost, however, bolstered by her grandmother's story, Jennifer begins to feel again, that love will find a way.

The book jacket fanfares that Sam's Letters For Jennifer is a mystery, which it really isn't. James Patterson's ease of writing tries to make a mystery out of it when it's actually quite predictable, telling a charming love story from another time, & of the reawakening of a sleeping beauty, & that's why I categorize it in Women's Books.

More from James Patterson:
The Big Bad Wolf
The Jester
Four Blind Mice
The Beach House
When the Wind Blows
Hide & Seek
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
1st to Die
Jack & Jill
Pop Goes the Weasel
Roses Are Red
Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider
Violets Are Blue
(06/27/04)

Rebecca