content: The reasons this novel sucked were many and varied:It was unbelievably, maddeningly slow-paced. The plot and characters were all very boring. The author switches back and forth in time, causing confusion to the reader. The author switches tenses; also confusing. Even for that time period the characters names were all stupid except Daisy. There was very little dialogue and much dull, overblown narration. The novel's pretension and silly names reminded me painfully of a Toni Morrison novel.I wasn't surprised that the audiobook was opened and closed by the stodgy puffed-up voice of George Guidall, but I was disappointed that the usually wonderful Alyssa Bresnahan narrated this colossal waste of time.