Title: Superhuman characters, stagnant plot, intrusive style.
Product review: Stella, a divorced mother, is perfect. Not only is she financially successful, superbly educated (3 degrees) and artistically savvy, she possesses a self-awareness which seems downright impossible. Rivalled only by her smart, obedient and emotionally precocious 11-year-old son, Stella does not need a new groove: she needs a human side. Stella's trip to Jamaica and fling with a 21 year old is an interesting daydream, but the book should have ended with her return to the U.S. and not drawn out the saccharine phone calls and tormented emotions of her growing love for him. All 450 pages of Stella's mental thrashings are punctuated by a lack of puncation, namely commas and periods, and a chatty style that's all style and very little substance. A quick, effortless read, but not for the easily bored.
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