Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain

Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She lives in San Diego with a husband she adores, and they are trying to adopt a baby because they can't have a child on their own. But the process of adoption brings to light many questions about Molly's past and her family--the family she left behind in North Carolina twenty years before. The mother she says is dead but who is very much alive. The father she adored and whose death sent her running from the small community of Morrison's Ridge. Her own birth mother whose mysterious presence in her family raised so many issues that came to a head. The summer of twenty years ago changed everything for Molly and as the past weaves together with the present story, Molly discovers that she learned to lie in the very family that taught her about pretending. If she learns the truth about her beloved father's death, can she find peace in the present to claim the life she really wants?

Review: I was given an ARC of Pretending to Dance from NetGalley for an honest review and this my review.
Ok the thing that I could not deal with about this book was how Multiple Sclerosis was portrayed and how the character with it dealt with his illness. I have this illness myself and I realize this book was set in the 90's when there were not as many groundbreaking treatments out there that there are now but I am so sick of how every book, television show and movie portrays MS as a death sentence because if the only thing you know about MS is what you see from these media sources and you are told you have this illness you figure you might as well die now. I am so sick of reading and watching this gloom and doom crap all the time and this book was no different.
I may have been too focused on MS part of the book to really enjoy the rest. But for me the book was only okay. The main character Molly was screwed up from what happened in her childhood and was unable to move on because she blamed her mother for her father's death. To me Molly was a brat and even as an adult she felt she was entitled to keep her secrets from her husband.
This book was a typical wife keeps secrets from husband, someone has MS so of course the have zero quality of life, huge misunderstanding type book. Very predictable and disappointing so I am giving it three out of five stars.