Like many other readers of this book, I bought this book after hearing that it was optioned for a movie. I find that movie-books are often fun, atmospheric, and plot-driven. Good beach reading, I thought. Wrong! The characters and the plot are alternately uninteresting and repellent. I got halfway through the book and was about to give up, when I read that the author's husband was David Denby on the book jacket. I thought, "Her husband is a great writer and movie reviewer, this book must have some redeeming qualities." Wrong again! I actually think that the book got worse after the halfway mark. This is one of the worst books I have ever read from start to finish.