Giving this one star is pushing it. This was positively one of the worst books I have ever read in my life. My advice is to run, not walk, away from this one!! There was no development of characters and truthfully, we are probably better off for it! Additionally, the characters are so unsavory that you can't help despising everyone in the book. I was left counting the pages until it was over. This was a choice for our Book Club and was chosen based on all of the wonderful reviews it received. Six of us left our meeting, scratching our heads, wondering what in the heck we missed here! Somehow I don't believe it was us.............