*spoilers* I really wanted to like this book a lot but just couldn't. It seemed to drag on, one bad decision at a time, until the last few pages. In short, Sarah (the main character) isn't really being treated well enough by her fiance and long-time boyfriend. They've been through an emotional situation that the boyfriend has never really gotten over so he doesn't have sex with her much and wants to wait until they are married (thinking this will fix everything???). She falls into the arms of a known womanizer and decides he can fulfill her sexual needs. The affair drags on and she keeps having her cake and eating it two. She pisses away jobs and it seems like her friends are well deserved and some of them have affairs too. Sarah keeps both men in her life thinking that they are her #1 all the way up to her WEDDING DAY and then finally decides to wise up. I guess if you're a married person and have a good relationship with your spouse (like i consider myself to have) then this book sort of leaves you a little disgusted at the selfishness and you start to wonder who should be blamed the most for all this mess. It didn't leave me feeling relieved or happy or at peace at all. Just not my type of book I guess. Contains abortions, anal sex, affairs..just leaves me thinking that Sarah is a confused person in college who never had a date in high school and is just starting to figure herself out, at the expense of others mental health. She comes across as fairly selfish.
Really struggled with this book. The characters were hollow and the main character Sarah drove me crazy! I empathised with some if the relationship dilemmas and unhappiness she felt but her decision making was dreadful. I felt that you didn't really know how Sarah felt herself about either man in her life or anything else for that matter and seeing as it was written in the style of Sarah's personal diary it was disappointing to say the least.I also found the diary format in this book did not work. It was hugely repetitive i felt i was reading the same passages over and over and slipped in and out if tenses. This book has a sequel but getting through this one was tough enough I will not attempt the second, I'm not even too interested in what happens to any of the characters.
I didn't like the plot, the characters, the strange device of semi-journal writing, the lewd sexual commentary, or the "moral." I kept waiting for something to happen - for the character to change, for a crazy plot twist, or frankly anything that would make the story remotely interesting. Instead it read more like a Jerry Springer storyline - Girl slums it with railroad employee while engaged to banker fiance. I think the plot stopped developing about 1/3 of the way in. Wouldn't read more of this for certain.
—Ursula
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—Jenn
This one took a bit of getting into. At first the writing was different to say the least. So many run ons and it was hard to get into because of that. But it's supposed to be like that. It's written in a diary format and you're supposed to be reading someone's thought processes. I loved how all the signs were pointing this way and Sarah ignored them all. It made me want to smack the girl lol. But the end makes up for it. It took her awhile but she did it. And I'm looking forward to reading the sequel "The Last Year of Being Married".
—Kristy
