I'll admit, I never got to the end of this book.
Pretty much it's about Vera Dietz who has been (secretly) in love with her best friend Charlie her (entire) life. Plot twist: Charlie has recently died. Another plot twist: right before he died, Charlie betrayed Vera in a big way.
Even though I never finished reading it, I feel like I read enough to be able to state that the story
moved incredibly slow and that the main character simply was not well rounded enough for me to really care about her. Not to mention the author would not let the reader (i.e. me) know what had happened in the past -- what the BIG DEAL was with her dead friend Charlie. I kept hanging in there, each chapter thinking something might be revealed, but after about half the book, and after being disappointed time and time again, I lost all interest in finishing it. The narration repeated itself a lot and seemed to dumb down the situation for the reader -- as if it was too complicated for them to understand outright -- maybe this was a technique the author hoped would add mystery and depth to the novel........ I wasn't buying it. I was disappointed because it sounded like a good story and the writing just didn't deliver.
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