Title: Great concept...and not much else
Review: I admit I generally like a little plot with my books. It took me two attempts to make it through this one, because the characters don't interact that much; each meeting of the book club is accompanied by a few more flashbacks. The characters I found a little thin, and some were unconvincing. (We're told repeatedly that Allegra is more emotionally volatile than the others, but she doesn't actually act that way, and she speaks in the same dry understated way that some of the others do.) By the time I finally limped toward the end, convinced by the glowing reviews that there had to be something more here, I felt I'd been had. It's a shame that such a great idea was wasted on such a weak story.
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