I won this book from goodreads giveaways.
I give 5 stars when a book keeps me up at night to keep reading and makes me want to recommend it to most anyone.
I didn't really like Marian much, and I liked her mother less. I liked the rest of the characters though and felt compelled to keep reading because of the mystery of the birth father. I even found myself hoping that Marian and Conrad would reconnect. At the same time I felt that she didn't deserve him because of the kind of person she was as a teen and continued to be as an adult- he didn't fit into her life plan so she cut him out. Neither did a baby; She cut them out and tried to never think of that time. Though I would have enjoyed more insight into Marian's and Kirby's thoughts after they met, the information we as readers were given was enough to see what kind of people they are, and to glimpse how people fool themselves and hide behind trivialities to avoid dealing with real emotions. Personally, I felt that this book was very much about angst and regret, but it was somewhat inferred rather than baldly stated, which I liked. I found that I liked Marian a bit more when she started talking about her regrets. It wasn't a book with a nicely tied up ending. The end of the book was not an ending at all, as the reader is not told what the future will hold for the characters as far as their continued relationships with one another go, which I find makes me think about a book long after I finish reading it, therefore prolonging the enjoyment of the story.