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Title: Ending is a child's trick
Review: Shreve isn't the first to employ the backwards telling of a love story, despite the reviewers who call this "unique." It isn't. It's a ripoff of Harold Pinter's technique in "Betrayal," also the story of an obsessive affair, and was also used by Martin Amis in his novel about the Holocaust.Shreve is a good writer but her books ALWAYS have disappointing endings; in "The Pilot's Wife" it's a sappy and unconvincing romance; in "Fortune's Rock's" it's a convenient and unconvincing pregnancy. But this one is just ridiculous, it's nothing more than a cheap, childish trick.This is my last Shreve novel. I keep giving her a chance to live up to her own promise, and she never does. Feh. Into the dustbin with this, and never again!
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