the first dozen pages were brilliant. 90% of the books is lousy writing and a miserable read.she could be likeable but seems cold-hearted: for example: she doesn't feel sorrow over the two orphans in wayan's shop whom wayan seems to have taken in simply to work as free cooks and housekeepers for her and her shop. the author mentions that wayan doesn't include these poor 'orphans' in the new house purchase and the author doesn't really mind. i bet those 2 poor, abused homeless children are not in wayan's house now (there is a small chance she kept them on as servants after the book was published and widely read). that is just the type of thing the author is unintelligent and insensitive about.she is an oaf. an emotionally rough yet weak person. she obsesses on a random person and gloms onto that person 24/7 to an embarassing extent.