A lot of people have said this was a slow read for them, but I personally flew through this book. The story takes place in Odessa, TX in the 1970s amidst the oil boom. The chapters are told from different points of view, introducing the reader to different women living in the town who each have their own struggles and unique situations. The one thing that threw me off at first was the lack of quotation marks. I eventually got used to it, but I found myself having to reread a sentence every once in a while. I would have liked to have had more chapters from Glory’s point of view, but I did love the other characters in the book too. Especially DA. Fans of Where the Crawdads Sing night find this one right up their alley! Thank you Harper and Goodreads for my copy of Valentine, as well as the awesome postcards that came with it!