I get what Lisa Jewell was trying to do, but this did not work for me. I found it so dull. I enjoy slow books, but they need to be building toward something. This book felt like I was waiting for something to happen. It opens on 12 year old Pip finding her 13 year old sister's half naked body outside their apartment building. Then we immediately skip back in time to find out how we got here. Then we get a little bit in the present, find out pretty quickly what exactly happened, and skip forward another year to get some nice little closure.

It felt like nothing happened and while nothing was happening, I didn't really care about the characters or their stories. I finished this book earlier today and I feel like I'm already forgetting it.

But it wasn't terrible. I like Lisa Jewell's writing style and I didn't hate anything about it. It was just kind of dull.