I purchased this book after reading a review and I'm so sorry I did. While the idea was good, the writing was terrible. I'm no author, but even I know that repeating the same narrative (the boyfriend relationship) over and over and over again is not good writing. I felt as if Ms Steel got stuck in one place and was writing the same thing over and over again until she came up with another thought. Perhaps her editor/publisher was dogging her to write another book and she just threw this together to satisfy Delacorte Press; at any rate, it was pretty boring for the most part. I hope she takes a sabatical from writing until she can give her readers something with some life to it. I doubt that I purchase any more of her books.