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emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
Long, slow, and followed a bunch of characters I barely cared about as they made dumb decisions. I usually love long books that follow several different characters as their lives become intertwined, this book just didn't do it for me. This was my first Jill Mansell book, and apparently it's an outlier, so I'll have to try some others. My biggest problem was the "romance" between an adult man and a teenager still in high school...which is treated like just one of the many relationships in the book instead of as a major problem. As if that isn't bad enough, when they get found out, the teen's mom and man's wife get mad at HER for being a "slut" instead of him for preying on a teenager?? A large part of the book is spent with the mom not speaking to her daughter and wishing to reconnect, but never once thinking that maybe she should apologize to her daughter. REALLY annoyed me and ruined anything else I might have liked about those characters.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship