Then Came You

A Novel

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Jenni Barber, Aya Cash, Annalynne McCord, Karen Ziemba

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner takes readers into the heart of women’s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale.

Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior on a full scholarship who plans on selling her “pedigree” eggs to help save her father from addiction.

Annie Barrow, a struggling Pennsylvania housewife, thinks that carrying another woman’s child will help her recover a sense of purpose and will bring in some much-needed cash.

India Bishop, thirty-eight (really, forty-three) and recently married to the wealthy Marcus Croft, yearns for a baby for reasons that have more to do with money than with love. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to Jules and Annie to make her dreams come true.

But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Bettina, Marcus’s privileged daughter, becomes suspicious that her new stepmother is not what she seems...

Told with Jennifer Weiner’s trademark wit and sharp observations, Then Came You is a hilarious, tender, and timely tale that explores themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and charity, the rights of a parent and the measure of a mother.

Full of interesting surprises!

A good Saturday book full of interesting twists and turns. In the end, a real feel good book.

Great story

It took me a while to get invested and I found one of the main characters in particular unlikeable, but about a 3rd of the way in I got into it and ended up really loving the book. The book is told from the perspective of 3 different women, and though each of their chapters is prefaced by their name, the 3 narrators were different enough that I had no trouble telling them apart even if I couldn’t remember who’s part of the book I was in (say after a break, or if I fell asleep listening).
The story is interesting and the 3 women who tell it sucked me in in the end and I found the ending especially great and would recommend this book to a friend.

Seemed abridged

This book started out great, lots of characters with as many story lines & I guess not enough time to fully developed them all. I was disappointed.

Jennifer Weiner Fan!

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

If you are a Jennifer Weiner fan, you will enjoy this book.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Yes, I would see it.

Great Listen if you are a Jennifer Weiner book

If you could sum up Then Came You in three words, what would they be?

Captivating, entertaining, predictable

What other book might you compare Then Came You to and why?

Any of Weiner's other works!

Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?

India

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, it was too much

Any additional comments?

I found the book predictable at parts which made it less than a 5 star for me!