Just completed this book by Anita Shreve last night. Don't even bother wasting your time, if you, like me, hate books that have no endings. To me, an ending = a happy ending OR an ending where someone dies, and the story doesn't go on anymore. But oh no, this book had to end with a dangler - leaves you with that feeling of what-if's.
This book is filled with what-if's. But it's not even that beautifully-written. Yes, I'm going to lambast the book, because I was given to expect that the book would be good, Jodi-Picoult-like. It didn't even come close.
And, given that the synopsis says it's a reunion of sorts for 7 high-school friends who meet again after 27 years, I kinda expected it to be quite full of drama - like that Reunion series by Fox (which I really liked, by the way, and was quite pissed that Fox decided to pull the series halfway thru - without an ending!!!). Well, anyway, this book is anything but dramatic. More like, boring. I won't even bother to do the synopsis thingy, because it'll only give a false image of what the book is about.
So yes, the ending did spoil the book for me. If there had been an ending of some kind, that would probably have resulted in a different review. See how important endings are? It's not just enough to have a good storyline, a nice setting, a good plot, intriguing characters, captivating page-by-page narratives - there must be an ending! Heck, this book is comparable to "The Break-Up" : the not-romantic romance movie.
But, there must have been some reason or other that the book was published. Someone must have seen that there's some redeemable qualities in the book. Unfortunately, I wasn't one of the enlightened ones.
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