The Ones Who Matter Most is a perfect book club book. There is so much I want to discuss here.

The characters relationship is interesting. Fern is raising a child on her own and then poof the boy’s father’s new wife appears in their life. Abby, the ex’s new wife, and Matty, the son, start a relationship with Fern’s knowledge. It is a weird triangle that works well for everyone. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. There was no way a relationship like that would work, except it did. Their friendship made sense in a weird unique kind of way.


The storyline was amazing. I started the book, I read the words as fast as I could, and I just couldn’t stop turning the pages. The Ones Who Matter Most is phenomenal. It is a complicated blended family story. The characters are pushed to make things work for the happiness of a child. The child pulls the adults together and makes them act like adults. Rachael Herron has always written amazing stories and this one is no exception. I definitely recommend checking it out.

The husband’s secret isn’t just the name of a wildly popular book by Liane Moriarty, it’s also become a hugely popular plot in women’s fiction. All over Amazon.com are women whose husbands have died suddenly, leaving wives to discover second families, drained bank accounts, secret identities, and other horrors. But it’s a plot that works – these books get published, and I gobble them up like Oreos.

This was another one of those books that I was super excited to read after reading the description, I love discovering new books and new authors. This was an enjoyable fun and quick read.