I tend to agree with another reviewer who felt used, like the author had a deadline to meet for her editor and didn't give the ending the time necessary to make it decent. I also agree with another reviewer that I found Joyce to be dull--I guess maybe she was more petulant than dull, but still not appealing. I would definitely not have been able to maintain a friendship with her. I also thought that Joyce's affair was ridiculously pathetic, and while it was a way to get Kathleen to reveal her own details about her past and guilt she carried, much of the prose seemed to only scratch the surface of any of the relationships in the book; so, the story overall was less interesting because of its lack of depth and development.

I've heard great things about The Red Tent, but Good Harbor is amateurish at best. It's another book that I only finished because I was too bored on several flights for work travel.