Victoria (YSB) - reviewed on 10/21/2009 + 636 more book reviews

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This is another one that I didn't initially like all that much. Not that it's bad, but when I first read it, I didn't enjoy it as much as her others and now I think it is closer to the first book that she wrote - the kind that grows on you after reading it several times.

Mostly, I have a hard time identifying with any of the characters - it's mostly about these three couples, albeit only five people. It's mostly about love - and I still don't identify with any of them, which is probably why I initially have never cared as much for this one.

I think that the main similarity between this and her first, is that they deal with adultery and the original couple end up back together, despite this mythical romance that she built up for the other couples. I guess that is why these books just don't seem right to me. Maybe she has a more real-world view of adultery than I do, but still...

On another note, this book sets up the way the majority of her other novels go - a type of journal sporadic throughout (with it initially unclear as to who the speaker is), followed by the drama of a court case.

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