欧宝娱乐

** spoiler alert ** Well... I'm not exactly sure what to say about this one. I liked the way that the book was laid out -- the chapters jumping to a different period in the past, and then back to the present setting, back and forth. The authors are pretty good at writing novels that don't involve a lot of thinking, that are east to get through, compelling, make you want to keep going & find out what happens next.

Unfortunately, I had a really hard time relating to the main character, Kate. I'm younger (24) than she is (30), but I've been able to relate to older protagonists going through that 'what the hell do I do with my life' phase before. Kate struck me as whiny and, to be honest, completely obsessed with her first love, a young man who wound up betraying her, her best friend and his bandmates by stealing the bandmates' music and claiming it as his own... and by writing about their relationship, so when he took off, it haunted her from the radio. Okay, sure, that's gotta be tough, but something like ten years had passed between the break-up and when the novel was set. You'd THINK that Kate would have gotten over it by NOW, especially since Jake is shallow and manipulative, and a liar. He's completely unappealing, unless all you want out of him is a one-night stand. He's the sort of man who will suck you in with charm and sweet words he doesn't mean, and then leave in the morning, or a week later. Unreliable. A teenager might fall for it. And yet grown-up Kate is still stuck on him.

My favorite parts involved the minor characters - particularly her best friend, Laura (I wonder why - that's my name too, haha), her husband Sam, Kate's parents. Their stories were more interesting than Kate's, who despite having a good life, a job she enjoys, etc etc, is stuck in a rut over a boy.

The end was probably the best part, because Kate finally grew a back-bone and dumped his ass. Didn't really redeem the rest of the book, because she goes back to him before she tells him to go screw himself (figuratively). I'd lost any sympathy I had for Kate by that point.