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karen
i have been trying to write this review for almost an hour. in between i have eaten peanut-butter and jelly on english muffins (and now on space bar and several letters) and have drifted off-topic numerous times, and erased tons of irrelevant crap. much irrelevance remains, but the short version of this review is:

i enjoyed reading this book, but it is not good.


this is a perfect rebound book for proust - after a long relationship, you just want to have a silly fling with someone stupid - to jus
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Maria Elmvang
This is one of those weird books that I couldn't put down, but didn't actually like much. It was well written, but decidedly unpleasant. More importantly, I didn't see the point of it. It seemed like the author had gone, "Right, let's see how much trouble we can get this family into - just because I can!"

I guess I should have read the writing on the wall when the first chapter involved a suicide (something I have very strong feelings against), and just stopped there, but the back sounded interes
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Ellen
May 26, 2009 added it
Shelves: want-to-read
Megan
Jun 04, 2009 marked it as to-read
Rachael
Jun 16, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Pam
Jul 15, 2009 marked it as to-read
Teri G
Oct 16, 2009 rated it it was ok
Sharon
Dec 21, 2009 marked it as did-not-finish
Shelves: never-tried
Erin
Feb 04, 2010 marked it as to-read
Laurie
Jun 02, 2010 marked it as to-read
Joanie
Jul 22, 2010 marked it as to-read
Rachael
Jun 11, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
erin
Aug 22, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: mystery-thriller
Lori
Dec 29, 2011 rated it really liked it
Jennifer Melnyk
Jun 30, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: wish-list, fiction
Tressa
Nov 19, 2012 marked it as to-read
Stacy
Mar 30, 2013 rated it liked it
Lola
Feb 01, 2014 rated it liked it
katayoun Masoodi
Apr 18, 2014 marked it as tbr-ebook
M
May 18, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, e-books, 2014
Liz
Oct 14, 2014 rated it liked it
Shelves: bookclub
Lisa
Mar 12, 2019 marked it as to-read
Soren
Jul 18, 2022 rated it really liked it
Shelves: read_in_2022
Clare
Jul 01, 2023 marked it as to-read