Jane Angelich

This is a well-written book with an intelligent, conversational style, clear thoughts, some research, and well-organized thoughts and highlighted points and summaries. This book is NOT a "bash your in-laws" book and really stays on the positive side of the issue or dealing with families. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is becoming an in-law. Although written for women, this book contains sound personal relationship advice for all adult members of an extended family and would be outstandingly good for the son and father-in-law to read too. The only down-side to this book is that the people who need to read it the most and get and practice its message would never pick up this book!… (altro)

This book is designed to help mothers -in-law develop positive relationships with their daughters-in-law. It's based primarily on anecdotal information from the internet wedding site "The Knot." The book grew out of the author's need for guidance on the occassion of her son's marriage. It's curious that a book about relationships only addresses one side of the relationship. It would have been worthwhile to broaden the scope of the book to include what daughters-in-law can do to improve relationships with their mothers-in-law.

It's a slight book (you can read in one sitting)not only in volume but also in content. The advice is largely commonsense and could have been offered without the "research" conducted via "the Knot". Overall I found it a fairly shallow treatment of a subject that must surely has more depth and nuance than what's provided in this book.… (altro)