Spoiler alert: I didn't like this book. I didn't care about the characters, which weren't well developed, and the main character keeps making the same mistakes again and again and doesn't seem all that smart. I had to force myself to finish it. The final section seemed to have promise because I expected to see the main character in a good light, but she just went back to where she started.

The passive voice is not avoided by Anita Shreve. I kept getting irritated at that, as well as her continuous descriptions of clothes, jewelry, hair, food, etc. (OK, OK, the wedding dress was salmon colored. You don't have to constantly remind the reader of its color.) At times it felt like she was just trying to fill space.

The book's structure was distracting as well. She put space breaks everywhere, breaking chapters into a zillion little sections, even putting breaks in the middle of scenes and in the middle of dialogue. I didn't understand what she was trying to do with that.

Overall, this felt like a romance novel; it was all about trying to find the right man. The main character even flirted with a man days after her fiance left her at the altar.

The book is a quick read, so I didn't waste much time on it.