maylingkuo's review
3.0
this book is strange in that until chapter 3, i didn't realize this was one story as opposed to a collection of short stories. characters and settings kept changing, so when the same names came up again, i had to flip back to figure out what was happening.
patterson has a writing style that's easy to read and i flew through this book in a couple days. it's rough to keep reading about people down on their luck. also, from the back cover, i expected more of a diversity of characters, as opposed to what she considers to be the margins of newport beach - poor, white, drug-taking individuals. this paperback is like a summer read, even with a beach, but without all the hope and romance.
patterson has a writing style that's easy to read and i flew through this book in a couple days. it's rough to keep reading about people down on their luck. also, from the back cover, i expected more of a diversity of characters, as opposed to what she considers to be the margins of newport beach - poor, white, drug-taking individuals. this paperback is like a summer read, even with a beach, but without all the hope and romance.
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