This was a bit more dull of a novel than I expected. I was completely captivated by the authors debut "The Coincidence of Coconut Cake" I expected more of that here, but found the spark and missing. But then again, this is a completely different story.

Here we follow MJ as she and her husband are distancing themselves from each other after 20 years of marriage. She blames him and then in her attempt to reconnect with him via poker, she dives into the world of poker playing. She herself ends up distancing herself from her entire family as she finds this as her escape.

The last third of the book is what I was looking for the entire time. Its here where we really get to see MJ really evaluating her life and marriage. We see her passion, not just her escape. Even though she comes close to having an affair, we see that she has been living a dormant life and really needed to reconnect that with her husband.