I so despised this book, I wondered why I kept reading it--must be a death wish or something. I paid good money dammit and I wanted it to be good. It wasn't. Where to start.Shallow characters, totally unbelievable story line TERRIBLE climactic ending---I read the first half of the book and was going to toss in trash, but decided to read the last 30 or so pages. Well, THEN I threw in the trash. Seriously, could not in good conscious give to anyone or donate anywhere. Don't know when I felt so strongly about a book before.Evidently, Bentley Little is a hit or miss author and I just have happened to read a couple of his misses. I have "The House" and will try to get through that one, and depending on the outcome will see if there are to be anymore.Mr. Little is a prolific writer and a fairly famous one. Is it just me? Am I the square peg? So many readers praise him HIGHLY. I thought I "got" him, evidently I don't.