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Dream Lover: Discovering Jack's Infidelity (Pam of Babylon Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Suzanne Jenkins (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 out of 5 stars 559 ratings
Can a girl ever trust a married lover?

Cindy Thomasini had the misfortune of running into Jack at a hot dog vendor downtown. Their short affair had a long lasting consequence for Cindy, especially after she read his obit in the New York Times. All the things he'd said to her were lies.

To make matters worse, she wasn't the only one. From a college student young enough to be his daughter, to an older woman with a special needs child, Jack's menagerie of lovers would soon come to the attention of Pam. How would she handle them?
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    Pam of Babylon
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    March 23, 2012
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Jersey Girl Book Reviews-top series of 2012 for the Pam of Babylon series!jerseygirlbookreviews.blogspot.com/2012/12/jersey-girl-book-reviews-top-10-books.html
The third book in the Pam of Babylon series picks up where the previous one left off but can be read independently. After Jack Smith dies suddenly of a heart attack on the train, a whole secret life comprising of multiple lovers - both male and female - is revealed to Pam, Jack's previously unsuspecting wife. Many of these people visit Pam at her home in Babylon to seek comfort from her and to share their stories of Jack and what he has meant to them. Pam deals with all these visitors compassionately and with a quiet strength. With her own health in jeopardy, Pam seeks to protect her children from as much as possible whilst assisting as many of Jack's lovers as she can. (LM) Chick Lit Club

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I hope you will enjoy Dream Lover. Pam has a remarkable strength that is slowly being uncovered as each new revelation of Jack's depravity is made.  I love her!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007O9VL2G
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 23, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.7 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 252 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1621112358
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  • Book 3 of 29 ‏ : ‎ Pam of Babylon
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Customers find the book engaging from the first book and appreciate its fast-paced narrative and emotional content. The characters are interesting, with one customer noting how the author brings them to life. The story quality and writing receive mixed feedback - while some praise the powerful narrative, others mention the plot becoming thin, and while some appreciate the writing, others note frequent spelling and grammatical errors. The editing quality receives criticism for being poor.

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78 customers mention "Readability"78 positive0 negative

Customers find the book compelling and enjoyable, noting they were kept interested from the first book in the series.

"...journey anyway, and I have learned a lot through reading her insightful narrative and observing her penetrating development of characters and their..." Read more

"...Pam meets all of them with a cool grace and dignity. I have a thing about cheating spouses, but Jack is more of a caricature than anything else...." Read more

"...the book’s slow, steady, spot-on onion-style peel back of the rich, handsome, charming, and highly promiscuous Jack Smith––and just how damaged he is..." Read more

"...subject matter and the way the author tells the story is unusual, intriguing, and moving...." Read more

31 customers mention "Character development"23 positive8 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, finding them interesting, with one customer highlighting the raw emotion and another noting how the author portrays the women affected by the story.

"...The author has done a masterful and truly insightful job of developing her characters, exploring a very complex relationship matrix involving many..." Read more

"...Pam meets all of them with a cool grace and dignity. I have a thing about cheating spouses, but Jack is more of a caricature than anything else...." Read more

"...I didn't give it five stars was the fact it was a LOT of new characters being introduced and it was a bit tricky to keep them all straight...." Read more

"...this book would probably include some very interesting and well-defined characters...." Read more

13 customers mention "Emotional content"13 positive0 negative

Customers find the book emotionally engaging, with one review describing it as a compelling look into a twisted relationship, while another notes how it brings characters to life and serves as a welcome respite from daily life.

"...truly insightful job of developing her characters, exploring a very complex relationship matrix involving many main characters and how they..." Read more

"...I could feel their joy and their pain and felt very connected to situations...Great Read!!!!!" Read more

"...raw emotion of the characters and their Brutal and sometimes Heart warming reactions to what comes up next and what they learn about each other...." Read more

"...with this wonderful author and her characters and how she brings each and everyone to life...." Read more

4 customers mention "Pacing"4 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the pacing of the book, finding it fast-paced, with one customer noting how quickly the plot resolves.

"...depth and complexity of each person portrayed, as well as the book’s slow, steady, spot-on onion-style peel back of the rich, handsome, charming,..." Read more

"...Suzanne manages to develop the twists and turns deftly and resolves them quickly...." Read more

"This series of books is so fast paced. It's hard to put them down. You just want to find out what happens next." Read more

"I think this was the final book. This trilogy was a fast read, you wanted to learn what became of all the people this man infected with HIV." Read more

45 customers mention "Story quality"30 positive15 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's storyline, with some praising its powerful narrative while others note that the plot is beginning to wear thin.

"...I love it! The crazy interweaving of characters and plot twists keeps me reading and reading until the last page!..." Read more

"The writing isn't great, at all, but the story and plot were good. It was a bit stilted so hard to get through...." Read more

"...I was wrong. This book is an odd mixture of first person narrative (of nearly 20 different people) and third person omniscient perspective..." Read more

"Such a different and crazy story,one just has to keep reading the series to see how everything plays out...." Read more

26 customers mention "Grammar errors"10 positive16 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's grammar, with some praising the writing while others point out numerous spelling and grammatical errors.

"...The dialog is often awkward and missing opening or closing qoutes so sometimes it requires a re-scan of a page to determine if something is a..." Read more

"The entire series, Pam of Babylon, is a dark, well written, compelling look into a twisted relationship in a contemporary setting...." Read more

"The writing isn't great, at all, but the story and plot were good. It was a bit stilted so hard to get through...." Read more

"...This book is just as compelling and well written as the first, if not more so...an unusual feat in most ongoing series of stories...." Read more

4 customers mention "Editing quality"0 positive4 negative

Customers criticize the editing quality of the book.

"...Could have used a good editor." Read more

"...my Kindle, it would be full of "red lining" of the many editing mistakes...." Read more

"I'm enjoying the series, but am getting frustrated with the author's lack of editing...." Read more

"...Add in bad editing, misspelling, bad grammar, words incorrectly used. I won't be buying more of this series!" Read more

Top reviews from the United States

  • Susan L. Carrier
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Part of This Series
    Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2014
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    The entire series, Pam of Babylon, is a dark, well written, compelling look into a twisted relationship in a contemporary setting. This is book #3, as much depends on knowing the characters and the story, it probably does not stand well on it's own as a solo read, but as part of the series it absolutely shines as the next segment of the ongoing saga of the life of Pam of Babylon.

    When I picked up book #1, it was some pretty rugged subject matter. Though a novel, it is no light fiction. The author has done a masterful and truly insightful job of developing her characters, exploring a very complex relationship matrix involving many main characters and how they influence and interact around the primary character of the book who is dead from the beginning of the story. Through all follows, you learn much of Jack, while watching the depth charges of his behaviors detonate deeper and deeper in the lives of his wife, children, mother, brother and his family, mistress, various lovers and those whom he used and abused when he was alive. It is one of the most remarkable series of books that I have read in my life, but it is not always comfortable, in fact frequently not, which is where the brilliance of this author really shines - she makes it possible to take this painful journey anyway, and I have learned a lot through reading her insightful narrative and observing her penetrating development of characters and their amazing interactions. I cannot recommend this series highly enough. But start with book #1. {Smile}
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  • BJ
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pam resorts to the Gallagher school of stress relief
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2014
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    Just when you think it can't get any worse, it always does. Sandra has taken the lead in trying to protect Pam and Marie from the women who are starting to show up for Jack. Protecting Pam seems to be part of her Karma payback for doing the same thing to her. Tom turned out to be a dud and she just wants her baby to come and be safe. She worries that she will die and the baby will have no one. Marie continues to drink and has sex with an older stalker ignoring her advanced AIDS. Now the health department has stepped in and no one will be able to contain the fallout that Jack has started. The parade of ex-lovers winding their way to Pam's door continues. Some want money, most want revenge, some just want recognition that they existed, one wants to show off her son.

    Pam meets all of them with a cool grace and dignity. I have a thing about cheating spouses, but Jack is more of a caricature than anything else. All of the destruction he lived through as a child and caused as an adult has left everyone in a better place now that he has gone. Pam finds the pictures and has the names of all his conquests and steadily uses her fire pit to burn the evidence. A nosy nurse at the hospital tells her sister who cause and embarassing scene revealing her HIV status that forces Pam to finally tell her kids and brings Dave the store manager at her favorite organic market in her orbit. Sandra faces a heartbreaking loss and Marie starts to get her act together with an unlikely partner. The secrets keep coming but Pam has a sledge hammer that makes everything better.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Look At Madness
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018
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    Having read this author before, I figured this book would probably include some very interesting and well-defined characters. What I didn’t expect was the depth and complexity of each person portrayed, as well as the book’s slow, steady, spot-on onion-style peel back of the rich, handsome, charming, and highly promiscuous Jack Smith––and just how damaged he is, both physically and psychologically.
    But it doesn’t stop there. Some of his main sexual partners are also under the microscope, displaying their vulnerabilities and why they were so susceptible to his charms in the first place, even after their finding out he was married with children. There’s his wife, Pam, whose complete ignorance is a perfect example of a woman feeling she must play the “perfect” wife; a wife who never questions anything and just caters to her husband’s needs even though he is constantly absent. Another is a young mother with a physically handicapped child, who is touched by Jack’s attention and financial care. Add a vulnerable misfit who craves his attention; a hands-off family member who falls prey to his charms; a co-worker who gets entangled in spite of herself, and a male childhood friend who is well aware of the hell that Jack and his brother had to face growing up and has been having a long lasting affair.
    After a while, I started to analyze why Jack was attracted to each of these people. What were his motives, his needs, his childhood scars that caused each of these encounters and many, many more? A complicated and no holds-barred book, to me this was a brilliant, analytical look at human frailty. HIGHLY recommend!
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  • Kelly G.
    3.0 out of 5 stars Don't be deceived by the title: Not what I'd call a romance novel
    Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2013
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    I got this book as a Kindle Daily Deal for free. I didn't read the summary so I didn't know what the book was about--only that it was well-received. Based upon the title, I thought it was going to be romantic literature. I was wrong.

    This book is an odd mixture of first person narrative (of nearly 20 different people) and third person omniscient perspective. The constant switching between perspectives gets old.

    The writing and editing feels a bit amateurish. The author uses words that sound like the correct word but aren't. For example, using "sludge hammer" repeatedly when the correct term is "sledge hammer" and "sexual deviate" instead of "sexual deviant."

    The dialog is often awkward and missing opening or closing qoutes so sometimes it requires a re-scan of a page to determine if something is a thought or spoken aloud. There are various typos and grammatical errors that I've come to expect from self-published work.

    All that said, the subject matter and the way the author tells the story is unusual, intriguing, and moving. While it does have some romantic moments, this book is more like a soap opera with its switches of character perspective and dramatic emotional tension.
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  • Wendy Etherington
    5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed them all
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2017
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    I have read almost the whole collection of Pam of Babylon books. Enjoyed them all. Suzanne Jenkins is a good author who brings you into the book and waiting for the next catastrophe.
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  • Barbara Raue
    5.0 out of 5 stars Death reveals many secrets
    Reviewed in Canada on December 6, 2018
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    A story of the times unfolds one layer at a time. When you think you have heard the worst, there is one more layer unfolding. A great series to read.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on April 12, 2015
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    Great series, enjoyed every one of the books.
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  • Deborah
    4.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2013
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    In this the third book Pam comes to terms with the fact that she didn't really know Jack at all, it's hard to imagine that Jack actually got away with everything he did and Pam is left to deal with the fallout. Again this is not an easy read but it is hard to put down once you start.
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  • greenie
    3.0 out of 5 stars pam of babylon.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2013
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    i have found this book dragged on a bit more than the first two, i dont believe anyone can do all jack did and be human.
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