I don't know why this woman is on the best sellers list, or has any popularity at all. She wrote that mermaid chair book, which was terrible, and now I went to read this book, becaue it was a interesting story line, and I have to say that it did have good reviews, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't have. It sucked.First of all, the book had all the all the makings to be fabulous. But it just fell sooo very short. I swear, I never want to see the word deft again. I don't know how many times I read it, but she needs some new adjectives. It was so flowery and over described. She tried to capture these moments in time, and she just didn't get there. The characters never really connects to the readers, and when the book ends, your more happy that you don't have to read her writing any more, then the characters become content. It was an over done, over written, bad book, that pissed me off, because the idea had the potential to be great.