This was, in all honesty, one of the weirdest books that I have ever read. Within the first few pages, Katy talks about how she and her mother had this sacred relationship shared by nobody but them. She says that while her mother loves Katy's dad and Katy loves her husband, Katy and her mother love each other even more. While I don't think that this statement was made with romantic intent, it certainly FELT LIKE IT DID. And that, on it's own, is very off-putting.
This book isn't just weird, it's also messed up. I'll talk about it more in the spoilers, but I just found it interesting how Serle makes terrible actions feel so innocent in a book. I had to circle back and reread sentence that I thought was previously innocuous, only to say to myself "wow that was really messed up." It seems to send the message that doing these things is totally okay, even if in reality it isn't the case. While this book was marketed as a romance novel, it didn't even feel like one. In fact, I don't even know, to this day, what it is. Sure, there's steamy scenes but I wouldn't call anything what Katy did romantic at all. Whatever, rant over. Read at your own risk :)
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS!
I just DO NOT understand why Serle felt the need to have Katy cheat on her husband under the guise of "finding herself." I think that it's a pathetic excuse to cheat, especially if she MADE THE DECISION TO STAY WITH HIM. The ending of this novel also made zero sense. The receptionist said that they were in the 90s, which took place as exactly the same time of the vacation. Make that make sense. Was she in a catatonic state during the entire vacation and dreamed of the whole thing. I think that this is the only explanation, given that she went though the whole vacation not knowing that she didn't have modern technology around her.
Maybe I'm being harsh but I think that these are valid criticisms and actions that really devalue the great storytelling in this book. When you realize that the relationship with Adam was all her cheating, wouldn't you feel a little betrayed as well? Not telling Eric about them also adds salt to the wound. I mean, how low can you go? Yeah, now that I'm thinking about this, 7 stars might be a little too generous. But it's 1:30 AM and I'm signing off. So to read or not to read? Either way it doesn't seem like you're going to be missing much anyways.
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