Nope. 

The main characters were pretty unlikable, but that was fine by me. What I couldn't stand was the soapboxing. Occasionally it served to develop the main character, herself an obnoxious feminist academic, but mostly it just felt like authorial ideology-flexing. I didn't need the feminist 'primer' on various topics every 10 pages, I was looking for a story. (To be clear, I agree with the stuff she talked about, that only made it worse). 

The worst part though was that SO MUCH of the book was backstory. I wanted more of the wedding, more tension, more thriller. The first half read like a millennial writing a mediocre lit-fic, with a sprinkle of dystopia, and the second half had the potential to be a fun/campy romp but was just a headache.

And the letter at the end? What did that add to the story?? We already had so much backstory! It was already so clear that the mom was to blame (why do we have to blame moms so much? Sick of that too), and society was to blame, and who could *possibly* resist those two influences? We didn't need so many pages of Ellie tracing the roots of her obsession. 

I think at the end of the day, that is my main critique - I spent so much time wondering where the author saw the value of so many things she wrote. What did it add? My answer was 'nothing' more often than not.